Posted on 03/10/2017 9:16:41 PM PST by TBP
Wonderful comedy routine by the great Bob and Ray.
Thumbs up. I miss monitor radio.
My son was an expert on the Komodo Dragon. We would go to the zoo often and they had a couple of them. He would end up explaining something to someone, and then just keep talking - often with a crowd around him. He was probably 7 or 8 at the time!
(His pre-school teacher would always defer any dinosaur questions to him as well!)
For a few years, Bob and Ray hosted the afternoon drive, 2-7 on WOR 710 in New York. I became a big fan then.
Has he ever heard this routine?
He will - I already emailed it to him! I’m not sure if he’ll find it funny or not - he’s only 22.
Then you might like this page (Monitor radio tribute pages) :
Monitor radio? Is that radio for monitor lizards like the Komodo dragon?
The world’s largest living lizard.
They are incredible, almost a holdover from dinosaurs, because they live in isolated environments where they are the top of the food chain.
I was lucky. I worked at WOR when they hosted their afternoon drive show. All those hilarious routines broadcast into the sales offices!
Bob & Ray did a 15 minute show every morning on Armed Forces Radio in the 1950s. I listened most every morning on 810, Far East Network, Tokyo...
Very funny guys. I regret I didn’t see their B’way show.
You were lucky. Did you get to meet them?
Do you remember “Wally Ballou for Mayor”?
I don’t remember Wally...’Allou for mayor, sadly. I probably could not listen every day although even on my days off I would sit at home laughing hysterically at those great routines.
I would see them in the hall - Ray Goulding was not friendly, sadly, and I learned to avoid him. (Comedians are neither friendly not warm.)
“ly Ballou.
Wally (their chief “newsman”) was running for mayor. (It was a WOR promotion. ‘73, I think.) Every day he would report on his wonderful campaign events — in Westchester, New Jersey, Long Island, Connecticut. Bob and Ray would explain that those folks can’t vote for mayor, but Wally kept saying “but they love me.”
Comedy is apparently the family business in Bob Elliott’s family. His son Chris is a comedian, and so is his granddaughter Amanda.
I have no memories of seeing Bob. Ray was always at the deli on the side entrance of 400 B’way. I think that was the address although it was years ago - in the middle of the old rag trade area.
One of my closest friends worked for the great Jean Shephard at WOR. I was too stupid and urban to listen to some guy talking about the midwest. What an idiot!
I thought I remembered John Gambling saying it was 1440 Broadway. 400 would be further downtown.
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