RonJonSurfer Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Almost 4 years between responses...must be close to a record. When did anyone last hear from Peaches anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Posted November 12, 2014 Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 I'm friends with her on Facebook and see photos of her and her lovely daughter, but I miss her on here. Come back, Peaches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted November 13, 2014 Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 The Three Stooges, Curly as the opera singer, Curly fighting the oyster with the cracker, Larry digging his way through the front lawn, and Moe's hair standing straight up when he was scared. The Little Rascals "The Kid From Borneo" (Yum Yum Eat 'em up!"). Put up against the "comedy" on television now, give me the 75 year old stuff. Infinitely better. And cracks me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted November 13, 2014 Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 I love when AMC does their Silent Movie Nights...it's the best. Flashback to December of 7th grade school year. I got sick with pneumonia and was home right through Christmas break. PBS was showing a daily Charlie Chaplin film festival and i got hooked. So, Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang, Stooges (although a little later....I'm happy with those movies and shorts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanAm Posted November 13, 2014 Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 I couldn't agree more, gentlemen. Most of what passes for comedy these days is puerile and vulgar. Give me the Stooges, The Marx Brothers and Chaplin and classic TV comedies like Mash, Get Smart, Designing Women and The Golden Girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy7 Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 Recently, scientists landed a spacecraft on a comet, and this article cracks me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayzor Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 I love the earlier comedies on TV as well. Those 70's/80's British comedies make me pee my pants. "Are You Being Served?", "Monty Python" etc. Hilarious! As for movies I don't bother anymore. Comedies are stupid & unimaginative. Give me "Blazing Saddles", "The Jerk" or "The Odd Couple" (movie or tv series) anyday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 We got "The Carol Burnett Show" and "Get Smart" TV series on DVD a couple of years back. Still just as freakin' hysterical as they were back in the day. Every now and then we bust out a DVD and watch a few episodes. Good stuff. I even have "The Monkees" on DVDs, the entire 2-3 seasons or however many there were. Those are good, stupid fun, too, which is what they were always meant to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 All three classics.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayzor Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 Yep. I keep watching episodes of Good Times or Sanford & Son. My dad has a bunch of seasons of The Honeymooners. I love how these shows depicted people as they really were: broke, tiny home & scraping by... along with some great twist-on-word jokes and punchy one-liners. Somehow, today's minimum-wage character has a 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bathroom home. And the jokes are crude with no subtlety at all. Movie & TV comedy will never again be the same. Just wait until year 2025: "Married... With Children" will be seen as "classic comedy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 Last Christmas I was lucky enough to get the complete seasons of Gilligan's Island and the Munsters. All I wanted was a clean Imperial Margarine container with potato chips (Lays) and some Grape Kool-Aid. Woohoo! Its 1975 all over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 Then here's an early Christmas present for you. Even if you've seen it before...it's wonderful to see it again: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 We go out with my folks every Friday night. There is a local hangout, "The Hideout". My Dad is 77, Ma is 75. There is 4:5 pitchers of beer gone before dinner is even ordered. Much laughing and joking. We bought Mom an iPad recently, never had a computer in her life, and she is digging it. I told her I was going to check her history for midget porn. Mom said what is midget CORN? Dad yelled, no, PORN. Midget PORN. MIDGETS SCREWING. This photo was taken directly after. They crack me up. They will be gone, someday, hopefully many many days from now, but right now rocks. Enjoy your folks. Happy Thanksgiving to my US friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 So true...my Mom died last year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. My Dad is doing OK but at 89 1/2 he's in a dramatic slow down...I made sure he made it to our house yesterday for Thanksgiving. It all changes so enjoy your parents and your family and friends now...today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 At my sister's house last night. She had the old classic tv special "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" on. On the Island Of Misfit Toys, they have a character, a "Charlie-In-The-Box", who says he is a misfit, because nobody wants a Charlie in the box!!! Riding to work this morning, The Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz" came on. And I laughed so hard, I almost wrecked the damn car. "Oh, I see a man at the back as a matter of fact, his eyes are as red as a sun and a girl in the corner, let no one ignore her 'Cause she thinks she's the passionate one!!!" ITS THE SAME VOICE!!! ITS THE SAME GUY! Merry Christmas everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 It does sound the same. I had to look up who did Charlie in the Box and it was a guy named Alfie Scopp: Alfie SCOPP is an actor and writer. 1954 : Howdy Doody (TV series): Clarabell 1961 : Tales of the Wizard of Oz (TV series): Socrates the Scarecrow (voice) 1961 : One Plus One (segment Homecoming ) 1961 : The Eye of Hell ( The Mask ) 1964 : Return to Oz (TV): Socrates (the Scarecrow) (voice) 1964 : Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV): Head Elf / Other Elves / jeering Reindeers (voice) 1965 : Willie McBean & His Magic Machine (voice) 1967 : The Spiderman ( Spider-Man ) (TV series): Jewlery Store Clerk (voice) 1971 : Fiddler on the Roof ( Fiddler on the Roof ): Avram 1972 : The Sloane Affair 1977 : Maria (TV) 1983 : Hot Money : David Townsend 1983 : Dr. Yes: Hyannis Affair : Detective Carlson 1985 : Evergreen (TV serial): Lerner 1985 : The Undergrads (TV): Hobo 1986 : Overnight : Gerald Ecker as a writer 1956 : Night Shift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zabadak Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 That voice on ...Blitz was the bassist, Steve Priest, one of only two surviving members from the classic line-up. :guitar: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 "What do you do when you get swallowed by a whale?" "Run until you get pooped out." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chutzpah Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Ugh! I had to look Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otokichi Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 (edited) Lately, I drop by Comedy Central's "Futurama" page and play one of the short snorters like Fry and the "Alien Doctor."(Why oh why is South Park still pooping all over TV while "Futurama" is as off the air as, as, "Newhart"?)"Hi, I'm Larry and this is my brother Darryl and my other brother Darryl." Edited September 25, 2015 by Otokichi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jai nance Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 classic comedy...the three stooges-the marx brothers-Sanford and son-the dick van dyke show-laurel and hardy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otokichi Posted November 11, 2015 Report Share Posted November 11, 2015 How about some soulful Charlie Chaplin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted November 11, 2015 Report Share Posted November 11, 2015 I watched Limelight the other day. Love Chaplin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otokichi Posted November 11, 2015 Report Share Posted November 11, 2015 That reminds me, I need a haircut... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted November 11, 2015 Report Share Posted November 11, 2015 Yep, love Chaplin. I will tell you how I got hooked. I got pneumonia when I was in 7th grade (I got it again when I was 31, not since...I would advise against it). anyway, flash back to 7th grade. I got sick early in December and missed school right through Christmas break. While I was laying around the house sick (yes kids, no computers, fancy electronic toys, cell phones back then) with nothing to do, I stumbled upon a Charlie Chaplin film festival on PBS channel 13 in New York City. I was stunned at how funny the films were and have been a fan since. Love Harold LLoyd, Buster Keaton...really all the silent comedies. Silent Our Gang Comedies are fantastic. Old Laurel & hardy, though not the team we grew to love when the talkies came. Chaplin made a nice conversion to the talkies.There you go, more than you needed to know...I would have failed in silent movies because i talk way too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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