Posted on 06/19/2017 5:26:51 PM PDT by EveningStar
Bill Dana, who created and starred as the earnest character at the center of the "My Name … Jose Jimenez" routine that made him one of America's most beloved comic performers of the 1960s, has died. He was 92.
Dana, who first appeared as Jimenez on The Steve Allen Plymouth Show, where he also worked as an Emmy-nominated head writer, died Thursday at his home in Nashville, Emerson College announced.
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And yet so many movies and even network television shows today not only depict but seem to celebrate blatant violence, dangerous sexual promiscuity, torture; any kind of violence or selfishness is ‘OK’.
We’re in ‘Bizzaro’ world.
Would be considered racist / cultural appropriation today, I guess. Libtards have destroyed comedy, other than us laughing at them.
A Jewish guy doing a Mexican accent ... worked pretty well for Mel Blanc too: Speedy Gonzalez, “Adios, Sr. Pussy Cat! Andalé! Andalé! Riba! Riba!” Who knew that instead of running out of oil a sense of humor would become the scarcest commodity around?
I loved him in the 60s, too.
In the days of video stores, all stores in black neighborhoods had lots of Amos ‘n’ Andy tapes. Mexicans loved Speedy Gonzalez.
It’s the Marxists who gin up the phony outrage.
He wrote the famous Sammy Davis Jr. episode of ‘All in the Family’.
R.I.P.
Lots of laughs for Jack Hammer.
He was a funny guy.
I remember it from when I was a kid. Hilarious. And he always had an anxious, self-conscious delivery that made it even better. RIP Jose!!!
I remember it from when I was a kid. Hilarious. And he always had an anxious, self-conscious delivery that made it even better. RIP Jose!!!
Not familiar with this gentleman. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1MOLzFpqrU
This would give the PC police an aneurysm today.
It shows to go how fascist our culture is today.
92. A good run.
I vaguely remember reruns of the show when I was little.
No way it would be made today.
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