Jimmy Durante.
Posted on 08/08/2016 3:24:30 PM PDT by gigster
Who do you think is historically our greatest actor and comedian?
Peter Sellers. “The Pink Panther” is an absolute classic. Everyone was great in that film. But Sellers was in a league of his own.
You're kidding. I thought "the Producers" was just stupid. I try to like Mel Brooks, but his humor always seemed so weak to me. So tepid. So shallow.
Blazing Saddles was funny, but I can't think of any other Mel Brooks movie that I liked much. "Young Frankenstein" had some funny parts, but overall I thought the movie was just dumb.
Jackie Gleason and Peter Sellers I both thought were pretty funny.
Lost in America. - omg
I loved “The Producers”, “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein”. I also loved Jackie Gleason and Peter Sellers. So many wonderful and brilliant comics. I appreciate them so much.
If you are referring to John Astin, I think he is still with us, as is Gene Wilder. Richard Pryor has alas passed.
The diceman
Are you calling us old farts?
I’m 58.
How old are you?
To #200: Accidentally left out Keaton (Old Stone Face - See A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum); Carol Burnett - perhaps the funniest woman alive with Tim Conway; the Mel Brooks insane asylum - Madelaine Kahn, Harvey Korman, Gene Wilder, Terri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman (Hump? What Hump?) and the incredibly funny Kenneth Mars (the German soldier in “The Producers” (Hitler never said “Baby, Baby, Baby” and town policeman in “Young Frankenstein”).
There are so many others who deserve a listing (and the poster who did the cast of “It’s a Mad, Mad World” included many of them.
Milton Berle - Uncle Miltie - one of the best “dressed” women on TV.
The Sid Caesar “Show of Shows” cast - all great. Rosemarie; Morey Amsterdam, Imogene Coca (National Lampoon’s “Vacation”), Louie Nye?, Carl Reiner. All great.
We have been blessed in America to not only have developed the motion picture industry to its peak in entertainment, but also for bringing the best, most talented and funniest people in the world right onto the big screen and TV screens.
I saw an old Phil Silver’s show last night. Just look at the “B” characters. All funny as hell = Harvey Lembeck. Carl ?? the tall guy.
The cast of Barney Miller - all top notch and funny. Some became motion picture actors - Ron Glass; Max Gail, Hal Linden, etc.
And interestingly, just from an “ah ha” revelation, none of them had to cuss on TV or in the early movies, yet they were still able to be visually and verbally very funny.
There were several “Golden Ages” of Comedy and as one Poster mentioned, most of our FReepers over the age of 65 were around to enjoy them first two of them, the 1920’s - 40’, 50s-60’, and later on the 80’s/90’s (if not a Golden Age, then at least a Mini-Golden Age). (Have to include the comedian “Sinbad”. He is too often overlooked but I feel his has been one of the best in the past 20 years.
Gotta add the Jeff Foxworthy gang too. His show was a gut-buster. “If you marry your cousin and she’s still your sister, you gotta be a redneck” (I purloined that from an old joke and updated it).
After that, I feel that gut-funny, well thought-out, and well written comedy went down a lot of toilets and stayed there.
To all those who made us laugh, “Thanks for the memories”.
Loved Jerry Lewis comedy. Especially loved his great big "F*** YOU!" to Dean Martin known as "The Nutty Professor."
He skewered Dean Martin's "cool" act mercilessly. He showed what a unlikeable pompous @$$hole could look like when he treated other people as beneath him.
I wonder if Dino recognized himself in that caricature?
Housesitter is the name of that movie. One of my favorites. Another favorite with Goldie Hawn is Seems Like Old Times with Chevy Chase. Has some very funny scenes in it.
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I have never much cared for Woody Allen's comedy.
John Astin is still alive? I guess that “reports of his death were exagerated”.
It is unfortunate that Grouch didn’t live long enough to get into the latest generations. A lot of people didn’t get a chance to see him at his best when he and his brothers were on vaudeville. And in many cases, completely out of control.
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You can download a bunch of his radio programs at this site:
http://otrrlibrary.org/OTRRLib/LibraryFiles/JSeries/JackBenny/
They're a price Jack loved - they're free...
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Jimmy Durante.
Even though I’m not really a fan of British comedy,I think Patricia Routledge is a fantastic actress in “Keeping Up Appearances”!
As a dramatic actress, Lena Olin is hard to beat!
Foster Brooks.
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