Tuesday, February 04, 2014
50s WEATHER GIRLS
Long time readers of Theory Corner know all about this Ernie Kovacs video...I've blogged about it before. What you might not know is that Jolene Brand (above) parodied a real life sexy weather girl, Teri Thurman.
Ernie's parody was pretty drastic, but it had to be. Thurman's real-life show was already pretty far out there. And the show was popular. It lasted more than a decade and was broadcast nationwide on the Monitor Network.
I wish I could go back in a time machine and watch some of the other weird 50s shows. High on the list would be "The Continental," a show where a woman we never see is daily invited into the bachelor apartment of her suave, sophisticated neighbor, The Continental. This (above) is a Saturday Night Live parody of that show. Let that sink in...there was a real show like that.
Unfortunately no kinescopes were made. The original show exists only in the memories of the people who watched it.
Interesting Eddie. Hope you made it to the Edie Adams/Apartment event tonite.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, did not know that The Continental was an actual show. So many kinescopes lost/erased/taped over. Sob.
I did see a tiny bit of footage of The Continental on an old KTLA retrospective a few years ago. It was just a few seconds, but enough to see that Walken's impersonation was dead on.
ReplyDeleteIt was also just like the MAD parody. The first time I saw the skit on SNL I thought they got it from MAD.
Robert: There was an an Edie Adams event that night!?
ReplyDeleteDan: Holy Cow...there was a Mad parody of that show? I never heard of it!
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteYes. There was an event at The Cinefamily Silent Movue Theatre, tied-in with the Edie Adams dvd collection.
ReplyDelete