Bob Newhart & Dean Martin – Toupee Sketch
An evening pause: On the Dean Martin Show during the 1965-66 season.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Kill me !
Straight guys are impossible to come by now days.
I’ve seen that several times before. And I watched it several times just now. And I’m sure I’ll watch it again in the future. This is one of the best sketches ever.
Ricky Gervais’ best discovery is Karl Pilkington…who has the best one-liners ever.
Many years ago, broadcaster Clyde Gilmour, the host of the CBC radio program Gilmour’s Albums, often concluded the show with a bit of recorded comedy. Among his selections were some of Bob Newhart’s stand-up sketches from the recording The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.
The topics were entertaining in themselves, but what made them particularly funny was how he presented them. The audience heard only his side of, say, a telephone conversation, and he relied on people to use their imaginations to fill in the blanks. His driving instructor sketch is a classic and a personal favourite.
One might get the impression that he turned to one-sided telephone conversations because he couldn’t find straight men who didn’t laugh …
(Those telephone conversations were great!)