I haven't seen that many flame-retardant slacks since I had to buy my school uniform.
(Oil dependency? What?)
But seriously -- that was glorious. Makes my inner 80 yr old very happy to see such clean entertainment.
...as John and George roll (over Beethoven) in their graves.
Reminds me of the Debbie Reynolds bit in Fear & Loathing.
I would pay good money for the entire Smothers Brothers episodes on DVD. Actually, I would pay good money just for their "WoW. That sure doesn't TASTE like tomato juice" routine.
I don't understand what a variety show is. was. A bunch of people stand around and do strange covers of songs they don't seem to like?
i think you've got the idea!
P < 0.001 that this is exactly what these songs deserve.
Who's the other guy?
P value, that is so cool. I didn't know you could use html in a username. I'm gonna change my name to , or maybe .
Good god. That is probably the worst cover of "Can't Buy Me Love" that I've ever heard. Not that the rest of them were gems, either. My ears are still bleeding.
Who the heck were all those people, anyway? The only one I did recognize was Bing, but that's only because kittenhead mentioned him.
I wonder what they would be covering if this were to be produced today.
Oh wait. The info was here. Englebert Humperdink! Slut Bumwalla! Paging Eddie Izzard...
This shit is bananas be yay any any ass
sung by the cast of Cheers
Nobody, but nobody could croon like der Bingo.
…But you'd never know it from this little excrescence. Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick but that was bad.
A little bit of trivia for y'all: the third guy that appears in this (the one who looks a bit like Benny Hill) is the late comedian Dick Shawn, who goes down in my book as one of the saddest but strangest celebrity deaths. I quote from IMDB:
"Shawn won his biggest fans touring in one-man stage shows which contained a weird mix of songs, sketches, satire, philosophy and even pantomime. One of his best touring shows entitled 'The Second Greatest Entertainer In the World' had Shawn laying on the floor absolutely still during the entire intermission. In 1987, while performing at the University of California at San Diego, Shawn fell forward on the stage during one of his spiels about the Holocaust. The audience, of course, laughed while he laid there, thinking it was just a part of his schtick. In actuality, the 63-year-old married actor with four children had suffered a fatal heart attack. A not surprisingly offbeat end for an offbeat personality."
Well, he played L.S.D., who played Hitler in Springtime for Hitler, if you want to nitpick.
KoKo, you had to go and godwin the thread, didn't you?!?!!
[insert Wilhelm Scream here]
WOw. Firstly, the Beatles briliantly parody this show, approximately 8 years prior in Hard Days Night Second, Bing could have had a good time but probably didn't because of everyone wanting him to be hip and with, Thirdly, did she say "The COOL on the hill" just as it picked up there? Fourthly, Dick Shawn was way awesome in The Producers.
Fourthly, wasn't part of that set used for Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box" video?
Hey monkeys, this gives me an idea! Let's put on a show!!
Yeah lets put on a show, petebest is right, that's great mmbenrs put on a show it'll be great
No Monkeyfilter Variety Hour show would be complete without the Quidquorpse! Who's got it?
That's Bobbie Gentry with an extraordinary rendition of "Fool on the Hill". If you're a one-hit wonder but that one hit is "Ode To Bille Joe" then you get a permanent pass from me for any atrocities you may later commit in life. You could show me a video of her biting the heads off baby animals and sucking the blood from their neck stumps and I wouldn't hold it against her.
Why couldn't I turn it off? I wanted it to stop, but I couldn't make my hands move. What did the Beatles ever do to these people?
Also, I'm in for a copy of The Smothers Brothers. The Yo Yo Man was one of my first idols.
What's a Tim Conway?
a. An obscure 19th Century Railroad device.
b. A type of chocolate biscuit.
c. Central Asian peninsula.
d. Crappy comedian.
Tim Conway fuckin rocked the Carol Burnett Show house down!
*slips "Dorf on Golf" behind hard-core pr0n titles*
Yeah, what was the deal with Dorf, there? He a viet nam vet or something? Got no fuckin legs.
What's a Tim Conway?
Oh, about 130 pounds!
Sorry, dumb Simpsons reference ... from the Simpsons Family Variety Smiletime Hour, or whatever it was called ...
Bobby Gentry not only gets a pass for Ode to Billy Joe, but her orginal of Fancy, a sex positive ode to whoring one way to the top.
Y'know, I mentioned Mrs. W'higgins the other day, and the Gen-Yers I was talking to had no idea. Sad, sad.
"...from the Simpsons Family Variety Smiletime Hour, or whatever it was called...
Which was on last night, actually. I thought he said 120, but I was getting rather sloppy sleepy. I was struck that it was that episode on last night, seeing as how I tried to cite it in yesterday's post. Only no-one got it. Well, maybe some lurker, but they're not talkin'.
And stop quoting yourself. It's unbecoming of a lady.
Actually...
sloppysleepy. I was struck that it was that episode on last night, seeing as how I tried to cite it in yesterday's post. Only no-one got it. Well, maybe some lurker, but they're not talkin'.