‘Andy Griffith Show’
Essential. And Brilliant. They don’t know that Howard Morrison, who played Ernest T Bass, who was actually from the Bronx, was a writer on the Sid Caesar Show? Do they know that the Sid Caesar Show was the prototype for sit coms and that the Simon Brothers, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Woody Allen were among the writers?
And here I’ll give Andy Griffith more than a little bit of credit. Griffith was originally supposed to be the funny guy on his show.
But then he quickly realized that Don Knotts would be better. So Griffith stepped back, and became the straight man to Knotts.
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