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Fridays - Michael Richards in The Mad Chiropractor Sketch (1980)
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Posted on 02/08/2016 5:11:36 PM PST by DemforBush

A pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards and Mark Blankfield star in this infamous Friday's skit about a maniacal chiropractor with some very unusual therapy techniques.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: kramer; sketch; television; tvcomedy
The timing and skill involved in pulling this one off in front of a live audience, and without actually hurting themselves, is pretty amazing. Richards and Blankfield must have been in really good shape back then.
1 posted on 02/08/2016 5:11:36 PM PST by DemforBush
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To: DemforBush

I have been to a number of chiropractors , and one of them, in Newton, MA, came to my mind watching this.


2 posted on 02/08/2016 5:27:14 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: DemforBush

Lol!

My favorite Michael Richards character is “Battle Boy”


3 posted on 02/08/2016 5:31:19 PM PST by Califreak
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To: DemforBush

Fridays was a great show. I miss it.


4 posted on 02/08/2016 5:38:21 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: DemforBush

Anyone else remember him in Weird Al’s “UHF”?


5 posted on 02/08/2016 5:45:16 PM PST by GMMC0987
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To: sparklite2

Mmmmmmm......Melanie Chartoff.......


6 posted on 02/08/2016 6:10:13 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: cincinnati65
Part of her appeal to me at first was that such a sophisticated stunner of a woman could get so goofy. I loved her schtick.


7 posted on 02/08/2016 6:18:02 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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I liked Fridays, but a LOT of the sketches haven't aged very well.

WAY too much drug "humor".

But Michael Richards really shined.

Larry David, too.

8 posted on 02/08/2016 7:09:48 PM PST by boop ("That's a hell of a price to pay for being stylish" -Dirty Harry)
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To: DemforBush

Pitkinville, Montana with Rich Hall ruled.


9 posted on 02/08/2016 7:10:58 PM PST by festusbanjo (Obama..Incompetent, Untrustworthy, Lawless, Arrogant. The one that our founders warned us about.)
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To: DemforBush

Hey, wasn’t Bernie Sanders on that show?


10 posted on 02/09/2016 11:57:32 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: GMMC0987

“You get to drink from the fire hose!”

UHF is gut-bustingly funny. Love that movie!


11 posted on 02/09/2016 7:14:48 PM PST by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NOT for Jeb. Just so we're *perfectly* clear this time.)
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To: boop

Definitely agree about the drug humor sketches. The recurring “stoner pharmacist” bit has aged especially badly. It’s almost as bad as the Franken and Davis sketches on early SNL. Though those were never funny in the first place.


12 posted on 02/09/2016 7:17:27 PM PST by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NOT for Jeb. Just so we're *perfectly* clear this time.)
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To: nickcarraway

Yep. Larry David was hilarious back then.


13 posted on 02/09/2016 7:17:47 PM PST by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NOT for Jeb. Just so we're *perfectly* clear this time.)
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To: cincinnati65

“Mmmmmmm......Melanie Chartoff.......”

You know it! Beautiful and funny.

Aged really well, too. Shewas still smokin’ hot when she played Principal Musso on Parker Lewis Can’t Lose in the 1990s. And to be honest, I think she still looks pretty darn good now for 67 years old.


14 posted on 02/09/2016 7:23:59 PM PST by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NOT for Jeb. Just so we're *perfectly* clear this time.)
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