My Favorite Comic
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Go here to watch Tim Conway's Emmy acceptance speech. From 0:19 to 1:26.
Link to videoWe see Carol Burnett & the gang in the audience, laughing fit to bust.
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‘a-blowe yow and be-kele yow wel, and comyth up all with your ease’ ~ attributed to Henry V
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@renauda said in My Favorite Comic:
One of, if not the funniest.
Indeed. But the interplay with Corman, Burnett and the rest of the crew made it that much better.
So many episodes where, on the "Carol Burnett Show," they could barely keep it together and not burst out laughing.
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@renauda said in My Favorite Comic:
Ensign Parker rules!
I needed a reminder of who Ensign Parker was, so I Googled; that's how I learned that Conway had died. I was unaware. He was 85 and in poor health, but still, I'm feeling sad right now.
Here's a detailed bio if you're interested: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/tim-conway-dead-carol-burnett-935496/
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"When comedians were funny."
Look at today's "comedians." Who are the big stars today?
Louis Black and Dave Chapelle come to mind. Their stock and trade seems to be outrage and sarcasm,
Going back 20 years or so, I can point to Foxworthy, and others who had a different type of "shtick." It was funny, much of it a one-trick-pony, but funny nonetheless. Perhaps Gaffigan and Robin Williams.
Go back another 20 years, and you look at Youngman, Brooks, and yeah, Conway and Burnett. That was yet another genre.
Perhaps it all started to change with Chris Rock, or Richard Pryor, but it was a change.
Hell, I remember when Jimmy Kimmel was (almost) funny.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in My Favorite Comic:
"When comedians were funny."
Look at today's "comedians." Who are the big stars today?
Louis Black and Dave Chapelle come to mind. Their stock and trade seems to be outrage and sarcasm,
Going back 20 years or so, I can point to Foxworthy, and others who had a different type of "shtick." It was funny, much of it a one-trick-pony, but funny nonetheless. Perhaps Gaffigan and Robin Williams.
Go back another 20 years, and you look at Youngman, Brooks, and yeah, Conway and Burnett. That was yet another genre.
Perhaps it all started to change with Chris Rock, or Richard Pryor, but it was a change.
Hell, I remember when Jimmy Kimmel was (almost) funny.
Check out some British comedians.
Jimmy Carr, Peter Kay, Eddie Izzard, Bill Bailey...there's a ton of them.
