Tag: comedy
Red Skelton & Walter Brennan
Shashi Tharoor – Is Your Vocabulary Up to Mark?
An evening pause: This is entertaining, in that it demonstrates the ability of English to absorb an endless number of words, even words that are absolutely ridiculous. Most of these words are unknown because they are hard to say and their meaning can be stated more efficiently and simply using normal vocabulary. I must also add that Tharoor is a Indian politician from the socialist Congress Party, now the minority party in India with the rise the present conservative government under President Modi.
I am therefore not surprised that he is skilled with using big words that can help him obfuscate his meaning, while making him seem erudite.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Canadian Brass – Flight of the Tuba Bumblebee
An evening pause: This is just a bit of silliness with some nice music as well.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – Hello Mabel
An evening pause: The pauses this week have gotten steadily sillier. I think this one is a good way to finish off the week.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Carol Burnett – clips from the last show
An evening pause: A short section from the last Carol Burnett Show, March 29, 1978. Note how Tim Conway can make people laugh merely by pausing.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Hey-ho!
A evening pause: Something short and silly for tonight. Don’t ask me to explain it.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Bobby Pickett – Monster Mash
An evening pause: From American Bandstand with Dick Clark, October 13, 1964. Perfect in anticipation of Halloween. And yes, believe it or not it was a pop hit in the mid-1960s.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
The Smothers Brothers – I Am A Pilot
Liberace – Malaguena
An evening pause: Stay with it, because after the music Liberace and Sammy Davis do some comedy and a dance number that is pure light-hearted entertainment, the kind of thing that was normal on television in the 1960s, and now seems so difficult for modern performers to achieve.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Joe Lycett – Parking Ticket Story
An evening pause: If only we could always communicate this easily with government officials.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
The Paul Hogan Show – Product Placement Sketch
An evening pause: Movies and television would never do things like this. Never!
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Shoe Salesman
An evening pause: From the Carol Burnett Show, a skit staring Don Rickles, Nanette Fabray, and Harvey Corman.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Tim Conway & Dean Martin – Old Man in diner
An evening pause: The sad part is that there is a cut in the middle, which I think suggests they were forced to delete some really funny but probably risque stuff that was unacceptable for television.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Leroy Troy – Ghost Chickens In The Sky
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Fly Me Off the Händel
An evening pause: It’s been awhile since this group has been an evening pause. And here they do it all, at once.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Big Bang Theory – If I Didn’t Have You (Bernadette’s Song)
An evening pause: Fans of the show will appreciate this more, but I like it because of its heart felt sincerity.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Barry Humphries – Dame Edna Everage
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who explains, “Australian comedian, Barry Humphries, is Dame Edna Everage.” This appearance was on the Michael Parkinson Show in Australian in 2004, and included actors Judi Dench and Sharon Osborne.
This is what great comedy is. Many of the lines really make no sense, or are dated about things you might not know anything about, but you laugh anyway because Humphries is just plain funny, and has magnificent timing.
Mark Slutsky – Final Offer
The Carol Burnett Show – The Senator’s Wife
An eveing pause: Sadly, I think these characters are maybe more connected to reality than many we presently have in office.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
In honor of April 1st
Mozart’s Naughty Notes
A evening pause: From the vimeo webpage: “Mozart illustrated the score for the Rondo from his Horn Concerto No.1 with a series of naughty notes and jokes aimed at his horn player friend, Joseph Leutgeb.”
Performed by the OAE orchestra, with Roger Montgomery on the horn.
Hat tip Dan Coovert.
Mozart's Naughty Notes from OAE on Vimeo.
5secondfilms – Missing
An evening pause: This is undoubtedly the shortest evening pause ever. However. you will probably have to watch it more than once to get it.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Victor Borge at the White House
An evening pause: Unfortunately the youtube link does not say when this happened, but based on one Borge joke I suspect it was during the Eisenhower administration.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Carol Burnett Show – The Accident
An evening pause: Time for some good 1960s television comedy. With Harvey Korman and Vickie Lawrence.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
The Complete 14 Batman Window Cameos
An evening pause: One of the silliest shows ever produced by television. These cameos however provide a nice survey of 1960s television and culture. How many do you know? And can you name the actor playing Santa?
Hat tip Max Hunt.
Carol Burnett & Harvey Korman – The Pail
Dick van Dyke and Julie Andrews – Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
An evening pause: With high hopes for the new year.
Hat tip Edward Thelen, who I thank for trying to offer me videos from a source other than youtube. Unfortunately, by the time this appeared, it was gone at that source and I had to rely on youtube.
Prayer about Getting Old
An evening pause: Fitting for the end of the year.
Stay with it. It isn’t exactly what you think, based on the start.
Hat tip Danae.
Tim Hawkins – Hip Replacement Song
An evening pause: Somehow, this seems appropriate following the holiday season.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.