Floyd just posed this video on YouTube, explaining his views on socialized medicine.
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I have good memories of Johnny, and he looks like a giant compared to today’s talk show hosts, but I always found the Floyd R. Turbo shtick condescending.
I always got a kick out of the Turbo bits! “I, for one, …”
It gives flannel a bad name!
Yeah… me too… that rat bastard.
Well… I always thought Johnny, being from Nebraska, was poking fun at folks he grew up with. I’m sure he thought he was a cut above, but I don’t think he ever forgot Nebraska. Unless he did of course, in which case, ignore that.
I really miss Johnny. It’s truly hard to explain to people younger than myself why Johnny was so great. They didn’t have that experience we had of having Johnny there practically every weeknight for decades.
I feel fortunate that my parents let me stay up late. I was a real night owl as a kid even when I was in grade school. My Dad was a teaching principal in the day and at night worked second shift as a deputy sheriff. Mom and I would watch Johnny’s monologue, sketches and first guest while we were waiting for Dad. I was lucky to see live many of the great flubs, monologues and sketches. I remember the moments when guests like Bob Hope crashed the show. I remember great moments during Stump the Band. The best moments were always when Johnny’s jokes failed.
“The best moments were always when Johnny’s jokes failed.”
Could not agree more. And if he had a string of clunkers, it was hilarious to watch. Also loved when it when he went after Ed. And remember when whats-her-name from the San Diego Zoo would show up with some animal that would, more often than not, end up attacking Johnny? Great memories!
What’s-her-name??? Joan Embry, Mr. Science Man.
Danke EP. And you should not make fun of your elders!
Does anyone else recall an appearance by McLean Stevenson on The Tonight Show? I am haunted by a memory of Stevenson as a guest or guest-host singing “McArthur Park”. I’ve been looking for it on YouTube but haven’t found it yet. It must have been late 70s early 80s.
This is not the kind of ‘highlight’ that makes a DVD collection, trust me. It was terrible. I know it happened because it’s not the kind of thing someone would imagine or make up.
The College Widow,
Which version of “McArthur Park” would not be terrible?
The hardest thing for kids to understand is how “cool” he was. How cool Dean Martin’s show was. Jackie Gleason’s… They were adults. Grown-ups. Now we have masturbating bears and Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon looks like he’s 14.
My mom told me that her grandmother would never watch The Dean Martin Show” because he was a drunk and, therefore, and agent of the devil. That wasn’t sarcasm or hyperbole, that is what she thought. Whenever he would come on TV she would go in the other room and do her Bible study.
I never really got a chance to watch him live as I’m just a bit young. But I have several videos and DVDs of his work and most comedians today wish they had as much skill as Johnny had in his little finger.
Great, high quality, creative and he didn’t need to go blue to make people laugh. Most of the time I wish I could watch comedy without an f-bomb every 30 seconds.
By the by, the above video is the most articulate Floyd has been for years.
Also, can somebody please teach Rufus to imbed? I’d try to explain it to him, but it’s very difficult for me to explain something when the listener can’t understand multi-syllable words. (That will probably earn me a response that consists of two, single-syllable words).
Pound sand.
(And embedding was disabled on youtube for that one, Rich. But you’ll notice I linked the image so it brought you to the page. Embedding is so easy a child of five can do it. Now, will someone please bring me a child of five.”
“Also, can somebody please teach Rufus to imbed?”
That’s what she said.
She also said: “are you SURE it’s in?”
Norwegian sex manual…why are all the pages blank?