Friday, March 07, 2014
CAROL BURNETT AND JERRY LEWIS
Wow and Double Wow! Take a look at this sketch (above) from the old Carol Burnett Show. It starts out a little slow, but stay with it...it gets better. Jerry's great in it!
Here's Carol (above) as William Shattner. This video isn't as good as the one at the top with Jerry but it contains some great ideas. That's the problem with TV...you can have a terrific idea but you hardly ever get the time to get it right.
I'm guessing that the scene where the two girls push each other's breasts up and down was built around funny, padded bras that were meant to stay in place in whatever direction they were pushed in. The gag didn't come off because the bras wouldn't work.
Here's Carol as Charo's mother. Haw!
And finally, Burnett's spoof of the film, "Born to Be Bad." Nice, eh?
Andrea Martin as Spock!
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ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic way to set up comedy. I was sort of hoping they would continue on with the near blindness from not wearing their glasses. But the dancing and awkward kissing made up for it.
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ReplyDeleteJerry Lewis would often turn over the directing of his movies to Frank Tashlin. As a former Looney Tunes Cartoon Director, he felt that Tashlin suited his brand of humor.