Mel Blanc & Jack Benny – Si
An evening pause: Good comedy never depends on crudeness. Sometimes good timing and a willingness to be silly is all you need.
Has tip Edward Thelen.
Tag: comedy
Christmas Songs on Steel
An evening pause: Somehow to me this seems more appropriate the day after Christmas.
Hat tip Cotour.
Fawlty Towers – Wrongly Shaped Chips
An evening pause: John Cleese at his peak.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann, who noted that the kid reminded him of what we think of as the typical millennial. Is he right? I await some response from my younger readers.
The Carol Burnett Show – The Queen & the Palace Guard
An evening pause: In honor of the election today in the United Kingdom.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Red Skelton & Walter Brennan
An evening pause: More silliness from 1960s television.
Hat tip from Tom Biggar.
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
A evening pause: From I think 2011.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
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
An evening pause: Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
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.