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Post by the Scribe on Jul 11, 2012 16:46:17 GMT -5
If you find any funny youtubes post them here. This one is very entertaining:
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 11, 2012 16:53:47 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Jul 11, 2012 18:46:06 GMT -5
Both funny and chilling, because we now know how real the paranoia about water flouridation was back in the day. Sterling Hayden explains his anti-Commie paranoia and "precious bodily fluids" to Peter Sellers in director Stanley Kubrick's masterful 1964 political black comedy DOCTOR STRANGELOVE:
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 11, 2012 18:48:11 GMT -5
Peter Sellers and John Lithgow are two of my very favorites.
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Post by erik on Jul 11, 2012 18:56:40 GMT -5
Johnny Carson causes a buxom blonde guest of his from eastern Tennessee to...well, watch the d***ed thing already! (LOL):
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 11, 2012 19:20:29 GMT -5
Actually, they aren't real (she wasn't born with them). Or maybe I should say she had implants. Not that it matters. I think she could have done just as well in her career without them and would probably be healthier. I will always love them, err, I mean her. (except for the way she treated Linda which p*sses me off still...ha)
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Post by erik on Jul 11, 2012 22:11:39 GMT -5
In memory of Nora Ephron, here's the infamous "I'll have what she's having" scene from WHEN HARRY MET SALLY:
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Post by Dianna on Jul 11, 2012 23:43:55 GMT -5
Can't see any of the vids:(
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Post by Dianna on Jul 14, 2012 15:01:41 GMT -5
Boy, Dolly sure was young back then.
I love this episode. very funny. Love Bea Arthur's facial expressions.
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 15, 2012 0:45:59 GMT -5
Boy, Dolly sure was young back then. I love this episode. very funny. Love Bea Arthur's facial expressions. Very funny. I never saw that episode. Is Betty White the sole survivor?
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Post by Dianna on Jul 15, 2012 14:12:09 GMT -5
Yes, I believe Betty White is.. still going strong at 90!
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 27, 2012 1:09:00 GMT -5
This is silly but amusing:
Not as good but still:
I actually used the chorus for my answering machine back in the day. All these peops hanging at the beach while I am here in the desert roasting my you know what off....
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Post by erik on Aug 4, 2012 21:05:03 GMT -5
Right turn, Clyde (LOL):
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 6, 2012 16:26:31 GMT -5
Probably the funniest I've ever seen:
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Post by erik on Aug 6, 2012 20:41:19 GMT -5
Slim Pickens reads the "survival kit contents check", one of the many priceless moments in DR. STRANGELOVE: This, and that last line of his here.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 6, 2012 20:45:03 GMT -5
Ever get the feeling that DR. STRANGELOVE is a rightie's how to manual? Isn't that the same movie where the guys hand trys to kill himself? haha
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Post by erik on Aug 6, 2012 20:55:23 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz re. DR. STRANGELOVE:
Well, Strangelove's hand does the Nazi salute and does try to choke him.
Incidentally, the character of Dr. Strangelove is said to be a composite of Herman Kahn (author of On Thermonuclear War), Werner von Braun, and Edward Teller (the man who, for better or worse [probably the latter] conceive the idea of the nuclear bomb).
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 6, 2012 21:37:50 GMT -5
Seriously? Herman Kahn? I knew Herman back in the late 1970's when I was a residence hall director and he was our Goldwater Chair. He and I shared a bedroom wall between us and had many conversations that year. Very nice man, quite large (almost Orson Wellsish) but I never would have guessed he was the model for that character. Small world isn't it?
haha found it:
Wasn't Peter Sellers awesome? !!!
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Post by erik on Aug 6, 2012 22:01:10 GMT -5
Yes, Peter Sellers did a yeoman job in three roles: RAF officer Lionel Mandrake; President Merkin Muffley (said to be a composite of Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson), and Strangelove. It would have been four (Major Kong), but Sellers was already being taxed by Kubrick in doing three, and he never could quite master Kong's cowboy accent. Enter Slim Pickens, and his career as an ultimate Western character actor goes through the roof.
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Post by erik on Aug 25, 2012 19:03:42 GMT -5
Remember the Dean Martin Roasts that aired on NBC during the 70s?
Well, one time they roasted former VP Hubert Humphrey--and one of them doing the "roasting" was his former "campaign manager", the quintessential lush, Foster Brooks:
P.S. The crack about Henry Cabot Lodge will kill you (IMHO).
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 5, 2012 15:29:52 GMT -5
Love the real stuff.
This theme reminds me of my favorite Candid Camera episode. The original is funnier but these are fun too:
Skunked:
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Post by erik on Sept 5, 2012 20:34:26 GMT -5
A savagely funny scene from the classic 1976 black comedy NETWORK, in which Howard Beale (Peter Finch) just runs out of bulls***:
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 5, 2012 20:51:45 GMT -5
I need to watch that movie which is a favorite of Liberals and "some" Cons.
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Post by erik on Sept 5, 2012 22:23:05 GMT -5
It may have been easy to dismiss that film in 1976 as a wild, paranoid fantasy of the destruction of television as a medium. But it isn't nearly so easy now (IMHO).
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Post by Dianna on Sept 6, 2012 9:45:45 GMT -5
I love this scene for napolean dynamite. Actually, Brian accuses me of sounding like this when irritated.. lol
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Post by erik on Sept 19, 2012 9:22:03 GMT -5
More than a decade before he uttered the seven words you couldn't say on television, George Carlin gave us the weather on The Tonight Show, as Al Sleet, your hippy-dippy weatherman (vintage 1966):
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Post by Dianna on Sept 19, 2012 20:19:59 GMT -5
I don't know what's funnier Tim Conway or Harvey Korman unable to keep his composure through the skit!
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Post by erik on Sept 19, 2012 20:30:42 GMT -5
Another vintage Tonight Show clip, this one from 1965, with the future "Geraldine"--Flip Wilson, before the Devil gave him his own TV show and made him do it:
P.S.: When Johnny cracks up at that last line, you can tell that Flip was a man who was going to go places.
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Post by Dianna on Sept 21, 2012 19:53:50 GMT -5
While we're on silly.. I love this scene. No matter how many times, I always laugh
Or... remember Benny Hill and the old man
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 21, 2012 20:55:18 GMT -5
omg. Benny Hill was a scream. His facial expressions could kill.
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