I’ve been using one-liners from that scene at work.
Hysterical. Foster Brooks was great. There’s another with Martin where he’s a dentist.
I don’t know what made me laugh more, Foster Brooks or watching Dean Martin’s reaction. Very funny.
Thanks for posting! :^D
Dean Martin’s daughter was on Fox and Friends a couple weeks ago and she said that the image of her father as being a heavy drinker was all just a show on his part and that he very seldom drank.......
Remember the Dean Martin roasts?
There are a ton of them on youtube.
Foster was his uncle?
For later.
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Here’s the genius of Foster Brooks: Every other comedian who did a “drunk act” overplayed it. They would stagger wildly, really slur their words, and then start singing “Sweet Adeline.” Foster Brooks did the opposite. He played a guy who was obviously drunk, but was trying very hard to hold it together. He would walk across the stage taking slow, measured steps trying not to stagger. When he spoke, there was some slurring of his words, but when he reached a word that was difficult to pronounce, he would try a couple of times, then use a different word in its place.
LOL!
Classic.
Long ago, a good friend of mine had Mr. Brooks on board his USAF T-39 flying into Diego Garcia for a USO appearance. Imagine the surprise when the “drunk pilot” checked in on the radio with ATC when they got within range of Diego’s — they continued the charade until close to the landing.
This is for y’all to continue smiling;)
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This is for all the germ conscious folks that worry about using cold water to clean.
John went to visit his 90 year old grandfather in a very secluded, rural area of Saskatchewan ..
After spending a great evening chatting the night away, the next morning John’s grandfather prepared breakfast
of bacon, eggs and toast.
However, John noticed a film like substance on his plate, and questioned his grandfather asking, ‘Are these plates
clean?’
His grandfather replied, ‘They’re as clean as cold water can get em. Just you go ahead and finish your meal, Sonny!’
For lunch the old man made hamburgers. Again, John was concerned about the plates,as his appeared to have tiny
specks around the edge that looked like dried egg and asked, ‘Are you sure these plates are clean?’ Without looking up the old man said, ‘I told you before, Sonny, those dishes are as clean as cold water can get them. Now don’t you fret, I don’t want to hear another word about it!’
Later that afternoon, John was on his way to a nearby town and as he was leaving, his grandfather’s dog started
to growl, and wouldn’t let him pass. John yelled and said, ‘Grandfather, your dog won’t let me get to my car’.
Without diverting his attention from the football game he was watching on TV, the old man shouted! ‘Coldwater, go lay
down now, yah hear me!’
There really has not been a worthy successor to Brooks for this genre.
Perhaps Cheech and Chong.
Thanks for the memories, Foster Brooks.
On the other hand, drunk driving was considered acceptable then.
very funny skit- Tim conway was another quite funny fella- (There were tons of great comedians, but He was durn funny)- and what a voice Dean had for singin-
[[Where has the humor gone?]]
‘Comedians’ today aren’t smart enough to think up great clean funny jokes- they have to rely on cheap theater tricks like using anatomy, sexual crap and foul language to ‘engage an audience’ now- Funny part is that they don’t have nearly the following that the great comedians had- I can’t remember now which old time comedian said it but they slammed the upcoming ‘comedians’ who were using foul language as lacking talent and having to rely on cheap tricks to get laughs—
Thanks for posting, s.
w & s ping....