Posted on 08/16/2020 5:40:01 PM PDT by Shark24
Foster Brooks Roast Hubert Humphrey
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How long before Biden appears on SNL?
Or doofuses in cars talking pop culture?
or two men and a fern?
or the green lipstick lady youtuber?
or...?
Funny, and I'd not enjoyed Foster Brooks since I was in my teens. :^) Of course, this is a poor analogy, since Biden's the impaired one.
On Saturday they would appear before the convention’s Credentials Committee and ask to be seated as the official Mississippi state delegation... Shortly after he signed the Civil Rights Act, Lyndon Johnson told his aide Joseph Califano, "I think we’ve delivered the South to the Republican party for your lifetime and mine." Maybe so, but he was determined to hold onto the region long enough to ensure his own re-election; the opinion polls might show him leading the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater, by an enormous margin, but he was desperate not to stoke the fires of sectional conflict. Only one thing stood in the way of party harmony: the Mississippi Freedom Democrats. If the national convention agreed to seat the MFDP instead of the Mississippi regulars... all hell would break loose among the other Southern state delegations... What precise words Johnson and Humphrey exchanged in late August may never be known, but by the time the MFDP began presenting its case to the Credentials Committee on Saturday, August 22, it was clear that Johnson had dangled the Vice Presidency before his friend from Minnesota. However, the prize carried a steep price. Humphrey would have to cash in on his liberal credentials to stop the convention from seating the MFDP.Democratic Debacle (1964 convention, repercussions today) | Joshua Zeitz | 07/27/2004
Thanks Shark. You are making me watch Foster for the past half hour watching Foster Brooks and trying to figure out who all the Hollywood guests are at the table.
They have to watch Biden...he’s liable to start throwing his own waste at the zoom camera like a chimp in the ape house.
How can you even explain these to younger people? Not the time it was but the concepts. For several later roasts they used to introduce Foster Brooks as “The President Of NBC.” Can any of the current generation imagine one of the biggest corporations in the world having a sense of humor? We’ll never see the likes of that ever again.
They also left it to our imaginations what they couldn’t say on network TV but wanted to. Now roast are just mindless obscene drivel.
Does anyone like roasts with Lisa Lampanelli and her ilk compared to the greats we just saw?
Say, did Biden send truckloads of marshmallows to the Dem run cities that were burning, especially Minneapolis, to follow in the footsteps of fellow ex-VP HHH?
I remember the roasts as a kid. I thought they were fun to watch. Way too young to really appreciate all the jokes and jabs, but just seeing them laugh with unfeigned good humor was infectious.
Donald Trump was roasted on a Comedy Central roast about ten years ago.
I didn’t know Barry Goldwater was a urologist.
Yet Foster Brooks never drank.
Hubert Humphrey would not be welcome in today’s Democratic Party.
... I used to really like Frosty Brooks ..... The Loveable Lush ....... He was definitely one of a kind ......
1987? Are you sure it’s not 1978?
At the 1980 DNC convention, Jimmy Carter introduced Humphrey as Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
Sad that most are gone now.I believe Rich Little is still with us and thats about it.I loved those shows and they still crack me up after all these years.Foster is the man.
Dean and Foster in the bar.Airline pilot.Priceless.
78 is more like it, I say an 87 in there somewhere. :)
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