I LOVE Deano!

I can relate to being a pair of brown shoes... Great video...thanks!

What did George Goebbel do anyway?

Pardon, Doug?
What did George Goebbel do anyway?
Guess you weren't around watching TV.
He had a terrific dry sense of humour that could break up an audience every time.
By the way, I bought the DVD set of Johnny Carson programmes which include this one. Funny!

The most entertaining Carson shows were the ones where you knew he was having a blast.

Love that bit.

George Gobel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gobel

Interestingly, perhaps, on his own TV show George Gobel popularized the catch phrase "You don't hardly get those any more", which fits into the title of this post quite well. Here's a 25 minute clip from George's show:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWlJzF5BA9o

Anyway, I've now deleted that Carson clip from my SDA LNR queue file ;-) While we're at it, here's another Dean Martin clip that you don't hardly get any more, this one with Foster Brooks in Airline Pilot:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8L-ZZSc8JU

IO remember watching one of Dean's comedy roasts, Ruth Buzzy(sp) was on ranting about how she could have had anybody she wanted, anybody any time she wanted.
Dean broke in and asked if she could have had anybody, why did she pick that body?
She beat the hell out of him with her purse for quite a while for that one.

One of my favourite Carson shows was his take-down of Uri Geller (especially considering that Carson was a talented magician himself), which is excerpted at 5:47 in this James Randi video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9w7jHYriFo

There are quite a few clips from the Dean Martin roasts (all of which I've seen on-line at least once now) available here, Stan:

video.google.ca/videosearch?sitesearch=&q=dean+martin+roasts

Great reprieve from the usual gloom and cynicism folks. Much appreciated.

Whatever happened to the world of entertainment. It too seem to have become humorous gloom.

2008 - humorless humor.

Won't you tell me, where have all the good times gone?

What what what what what (cf. Neddie Seagoon)... the good times
have gone? Ying tong iddle i po[1], I must be doing something wrong!

[1] www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nebe1zuEtbc

The booze and cigarettes were real, God forbid, the humor was unscripted and self-depreciating, God forbid. How pathetic in contrast that two agenda driven gutter-mouthed angry slugs like Roseanne Barr, then, Rosie, became the media's anointed icons of humor for decades. In today's lefty cultural landscape all is forbidden unless it adheres to the approved agenda - anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-military, anti-capitalism, anti-American, etc. It's all so boring.

Little Mosque On The Prairie or I Love Lucy, it's a no brainer.

Thanks for the trip back in time.

I wonder if the rest of the clip shows Gobel taking a drink from the glass that Martin "enhanced".

Here's another George Gobel, a clip that used to exist at his home page (but was removed, possibly for "safety" reasons). It's a clip of him lighting a BBQ using liquid oxygen.

Looking at those clips shows what incremental rules and laws imposed by political correctness has done. Today it would be illegal for them to do those shows the way they are done.

This is genuine entertainment and it shows in the fact everyone is having a good time and laughing their ass off.

If this was a new show MADD, anti smoking groups, health groups, and the professional offended would be all over it and the timid corporate types who run TV would be running for cover with lawyers covering their six. It's sad really.

Great stuff.

thank you

That (excellent) barbeque lighting video is by a different George Gobel, PiperPaul, that video was shot in 1995, the George Gobel being discussed above died in 1991. On the matter of drinking from the glass on the Carson show, keep in mind that these guys were professionals, not everthing is as spontaneous as it sometimes appears. Also, for, Penny, here's the famous Chocolate Factory sketch from I Love Lucy, with Vivian Vance as Ethel:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wp3m1vg06Q

George Gobel actually started his career in entertainment as a country-and-western singer, which I've always found to be one of the less expected facts in the world.

George talks about his early country music work at about
8:00 minutes into this episode of his TV show, Jim. Note
that he yodels pretty good too ;-)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5TC7BhJaiU

Islamic RageBoy Sings "Baby What A Pack Of Lies"

With special guests Sean Penn and Danny Glover

May not be suitable for work environment.

Those were the days my friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNVit7cesj8&feature=related

Oh yuck ;-) Mary Hopkin's Those were the days... The first time I heard that (I would have been about 13), I thought, oy, what a loser. You've got a whole life ahead of yourself, and you're pining for the fjords. Look, here's an idea, try Ms. Minellis' Life is a Cabaret!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=opi1da2FzbE

As I wrote here on June 24, 2006:

What good is sitting
Alone in you room?
Come hear the music play.
Life is an S D A, old chum,
Come to the S D A.

Put down the knitting,
The book and the broom.
Time for a holiday.
Life is an S D A, old chum,
Come to the S D A.

Come taste the wine,
Come hear the band.
Come blow a horn,
Start celebrating;
Right this way,
Your table's waiting.

No use permitting
Some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away.
Come hear the music play.
Life is an S D A, old chum,
Come to the S D A!

Kate,

Well done! It brought back great memories of seeing Don Rickles live a few years ago at the Turning Stone Casino. These genuine moments are fading from our time and we shall not see their like in the future, ceteris paribus. But that clip gives us hope: our forebears were made of sterner yet happier stuff and we are the better for it.

You know, I sometimes worry that my sense of humor is going with my age. Here's proof that it's not ME that's is getting less funny.

Times have changed. They won't even allow pro-military humour like that anymore.

This clip would not be shown unless all the cigarette smoking parts were cut out - it would not be shown therefore...

This was a great clip, Kate. People here in Canada were like that in real life too. I grew up with the Greatest Generation as parents and they we like this clip in real life. Gallant. Those who have seen 'the elephant' (death) see life in a different way. They consider living rather than existing to be the aim, hence the lack of the 'arn't I precious' moments!

The WWI and WWII vets were a wild, hilarious, 'can do', 'will do' crowd who took dares from other intrepid souls at the drop of a hat, they drove miles to see each other and visited until 6 A.M. in the morning. My parents used to take a pillow and a blanket with them when they went to dances because they (and us kids) sometimes slept in the car. If it was blizzarding when there was an important community event - like a dance or a Christmas concert - Dad hitched up the sleigh because we would get stuck in the snow with the truck - it never occurred to my parents NOT to go and miss a chance to visit with their friends.

Death was to be defied, laughter was the best defense for troubled times, they 'cheered up ' sick people by making them laugh at their misfortunes, they cried very seldom but they were kind to those who cried in sorrow. The courage, the failure to take themselves seriously, the kindness and consideration for their friends and family, the faith in friendship...where did all this greatness go? It left the room, in Canada, when the people elected Pierre Trudeau and the PC crowd took over.

I am so glad that I knew the world that welcomed people who really knew how to live because they valued life. Smoking cigarettes, a libation or twenty, fast powerful cars/trucks, strong capable men, people who took risks for the fun of it...it is all there in the video. I, like the above commentators, really miss that compelling world when life was exciting and interesting because the people you knew were exciting and interesting - and capable.

A good laugh!

When I think of many "socially conscious" modern "comedians" and their ilk, I'm reminded of Chesterton's line: the opposite of "funny" isn't "serious", it's "not funny".

I just watched an HBO special on Don Rickles, I had forgotten how sharp this guy is/was, as I don't know if Don's still around. The piece showed folks of all persuasions in a packed theater waiting their chance to be picked on.
My how times have changed, today the audience would be filled with HRC snoops.

Carson's best for sure were when his guests got their groove on.... I'm amazed that someone found this old chestnut.

Other high points were when Rickles guest hosted ... a few shows he basically started at the monlogue and didn't let up until the end of the show. Guests were just fodder for his meat grinder wit.

Here is another Carson oldy - Steve Martin at his best with The Great Flydini.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alD_tukE77Q

end of an era , and the beginning of a new one. carson about to retire and jim carrey about to start up big. 17 years ago now. where did the time go.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DAuzp-51dPw&feature=related

I miss those guys. Whoops, I guess that dates me a bit.

George Gobel's actually was quite a guitar player. So much so that Gibson produced a George Gobel signature model medium-thin body jazz guitar with a 3/4 scale.

His request for the short scale length was because he had small hands. I kept looking at his hands while he was talking but Dino was stealing the show his ashtray antics.

Well written Jema54. That's what it was like. You brought back memories with your post. Canada did change after trudeau. More's the pity.

I picked up a few Martin/Lewis dvds for a buck at Wal\-mart. Watching them made me realize that Jim Carey basically copies Jerry Lewis. Good stuff,though.

I think George G did Lucky Strike Commercials!