Its a day late but to celebrate the 2052 anniversary of the Assassination of Julius Caesar here's a classic Wayne and Shuster skit:
Poor Sylvia Lennick was a well-known actress in Toronto when I was growing up, but sadly she was pursued by the phrase: Don't go Julie I said.
16 marzo - Sant'Ilario di Aquileia
Showing posts with label Wayne and Shuster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wayne and Shuster. Show all posts
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Monday, February 02, 2009
Lunedi Lunacy
Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster were part of anyone in English Canada's radio and television schedule between the 1940s and the 1980's. They were fixtures, like Hockey Night in Canada or Juliette or the Plouffe Family. They were also favorites on the Ed Sullivan Show and appeared 67 times on old Stoneface's variety programme.
Their comedy was literate, often bawdy but never vulgar - and they assumed that their audience was intelligent and if they ever cursed it was only during rehearsals.
This sketch was a perennial - this particular version was made in 1980, long before the days of discount airlines. A bit prophetic I would say.
I enjoy the fact that the first sequence was filmed at my first workplace with the airlines - the long gone Terminal 1 at Toronto International Airport. Hell when I worked there it was the only terminal and airplanes still had propellers and you walked outside to board. I guess you do that now but its called commuter airlines.
02 febbraio - Candelora
Their comedy was literate, often bawdy but never vulgar - and they assumed that their audience was intelligent and if they ever cursed it was only during rehearsals.
This sketch was a perennial - this particular version was made in 1980, long before the days of discount airlines. A bit prophetic I would say.
I enjoy the fact that the first sequence was filmed at my first workplace with the airlines - the long gone Terminal 1 at Toronto International Airport. Hell when I worked there it was the only terminal and airplanes still had propellers and you walked outside to board. I guess you do that now but its called commuter airlines.
02 febbraio - Candelora
Monday, June 09, 2008
Lunedi Lunacy
Now that spring has sprung and the grass has rise the Baseball season and the Shakespeare Festival season are both in full swing. Here's a tribute to those two great harbingers of spring.
I remember this sketch from a Wayne and Shuster radio show in the early '50s; this version in 1958 would have been from one of their early CBC TV shows. They were funny at a time when funny did not mean resorting to swearing and their comedy always assumed that the audience was literate and knowing.
From one of their classic sketches Rinse the Blood Off My Toga (The assassination of Julius Caesar as written by Micky Spillane.):
9 giugno - Santa Columba
I remember this sketch from a Wayne and Shuster radio show in the early '50s; this version in 1958 would have been from one of their early CBC TV shows. They were funny at a time when funny did not mean resorting to swearing and their comedy always assumed that the audience was literate and knowing.
From one of their classic sketches Rinse the Blood Off My Toga (The assassination of Julius Caesar as written by Micky Spillane.):
Detective (In a bar in ancient Rome): I'll have a martinus!As a grade 9 Latin student that one killed me.
Bartender: Don't you mean a martini?
Detective: If I wanted two I'd ask for them!
9 giugno - Santa Columba
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