IJBFC Chat - April 7, 2019
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garth_johnson
[6:40 PM]
OK
who gave Jack an El Explodo brand cigar?
Steve_Smith
[4:40 PM]
gooood
evening...
watching
Benny (Hill) while waiting_
brad_strickland
[4:58 PM]
Hi,
Steve.
The
"Yakety Sax" cut in yet?
Laura
Leibowitz [4:59 PM]
Hi
folks!
brad_strickland
[4:59 PM]
Hiya,
Boss.
Tom
V. [4:59 PM]
Good
evening, everyone!
brad_strickland
[4:59 PM]
Hello,
Tom!
Tom
V. [4:59 PM]
Hello
Brad!
garth_johnson
[5:00 PM]
Where's
the kaboom -- there was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!
Laura
Leibowitz [5:00 PM]
How's
everyone tonight?
R.
Hookie [5:00 PM]
Hi
folks!
Laura
Leibowitz [5:00 PM]
Har
har
brad_strickland
[5:01 PM]
I'm
one of the Walking Wounded tonight. This morning the Atlanta Radio Theater put
on a show at a convention. I tripped getting onstage (they had pushed the steps
slightly beneath the stage to make way for the sound fx table} and went down
flat on my face. Fortunately, all I really got out of it was rug burn on
my forehead. And I played the part of Jeeves, none the less. The show
must go on. Dignity, always dignity....
Laura
Leibowitz [5:02 PM]
Glad
you lived to tell the tale!
R.
Hookie [5:02 PM]
That's
too bad...
Steve_Smith
[5:02 PM]
oops
-
hi
guys
brad_strickland
[5:02 PM]
Over
the years, I have learned how to take a fall.
Hi,
Steve.
Steve_Smith
[5:02 PM]
was
making a pbj
brad_strickland
[5:02 PM]
What
flavor j?
Laura
Leibowitz [5:03 PM]
What,
no Jell-O?
Steve_Smith
[5:03 PM]
time
for me to turn off Benny Hill
brad_strickland
[5:03 PM]
I
was hoping it would cherry, strawberry, raspberry, orange, lemon, and/or lime.
Benny
Hill couldn't make a living in modern-day America. If he were alive.
Steve_Smith
[5:03 PM]
grape....
smuckers... sorry folks
R.
Hookie [5:03 PM]
Yes
Steve... only one Benny at a time...
brad_strickland
[5:04 PM]
Oh,
well--then it has to be good.
Tom
V. [5:04 PM]
Did
they ever try peanut butter flavored Jello?
Laura
Leibowitz [5:04 PM]
You
know that Benny Hill took his first name from Jack, right?
R.
Hookie [5:05 PM]
He
did??!!
Laura
Leibowitz [5:05 PM]
Tom
- There was butterscotch pudding, but that's as close as I'm aware...
Hookie
- Yepper
R.
Hookie [5:05 PM]
Well!
brad_strickland
[5:05 PM]
"Folks,
here's a grand dessert. You will need one package of grape Jell-O, a half-cup of
peanut butter, and six slices of Grape-Nuts bread..."
Tom
V. [5:05 PM]
That's
cool, Laura.
Steve_Smith
[5:06 PM]
i
was listening to a show the other evening..
Laura
Leibowitz [5:06 PM]
Man,
no Sal Hepatica needed after that recipe
R.
Hookie [5:06 PM]
GN
Bread???
Steve_Smith
[5:06 PM]
think
it was in the 1940..
brad_strickland
[5:06 PM]
Did
Jack know about that pilfering of his assumed name? Did he ever work with Benny
Hill?
Laura
Leibowitz [5:06 PM]
I
would imagine that would be something like the gluten-free bread I see in
Berkeley. You could kill someone
with it.
Steve_Smith
[5:06 PM]
jack
was talking about being tired
Laura
Leibowitz [5:07 PM]
Brad
- Not as far as I know. I think he'd
take it as a compliment, since he sometimes claimed he took Jack from Jack
Osterman.
Steve_Smith
[5:07 PM]
said
somewthing about B12 and
brad_strickland
[5:07 PM]
Ah,
Dwarf Battle Bread. Keeps you going for days. . . just one look at it takes away
your appetite. And you can chuck it at an enemy with a fair chance at killing
him. --from Terry Pratchett, roughly.
Steve_Smith
[5:08 PM]
one
of the ciggerettes he got from the drummer ...
brad_strickland
[5:08 PM]
It's
odd, I'm the only one of my siblings who doesn't need periodic B-12 shots. And
I've never needed cigarettes.
Steve_Smith
[5:09 PM]
Jack
was talking about smoking a joint...
10/27/1940...
brad_strickland
[5:10 PM]
IIRC,
both Benny Rubin and Ben Bernie were not thrilled with Jack's eventual stage
name. Oh, I've never smoked a joint, either. Remarkably dull for a fellow who
was at college in the turbulent sixties.
Steve_Smith
[5:10 PM]
that's
the one
brad_strickland
[5:10 PM]
Of
course, before Jack was Jack, he was Ben Benny. And Ben Bernie played the
fiddle. While Rome bernied.
Steve_Smith
[5:12 PM]
Jack
tries to trade the Maxwell.. 40-10-27 ... had to do a dbl take..
brad_strickland
[5:13 PM]
Yep,
'round here that would be the fortieth month, tenth day, of 1927. You don't get
years like those anymore.
The
Maxwell did disappear during WWII, gone to the service as scrap metal. It
somehow was resurrected later, I forget how.
Steve_Smith
[5:14 PM]
where
is everyone? did the show start?
brad_strickland
[5:14 PM]
Hasn't
been announced. Laura?
Looks
like they've all dropped off, but i didn't see a link.
R.
Hookie [5:16 PM]
I
didn't get it
Tom
V. [5:16 PM]
I'm
still here awaiting instructions.
Steve_Smith
[5:17 PM]
russians....
tee hee
brad_strickland
[5:17 PM]
Huh.
The roster over on the left just shows two of us at the moment. Must be Slack
slacking off.
R.
Hookie [5:17 PM]
There's
a roster?
brad_strickland
[5:17 PM]
Hi,
Laura! Show started?
Laura
Leibowitz [5:17 PM]
ARgh
Computer
froze, just got back in
R.
Hookie [5:17 PM]
Oh
brad_strickland
[5:18 PM]
Server,
I think. Lots of folks apparently got dumped at once.
Steve_Smith
[5:18 PM]
oops
Laura
Leibowitz [5:19 PM]
Nuts
Steve_Smith
[5:19 PM]
just
5 of us...??? I don;t see
a
roster..
R.
Hookie [5:19 PM]
You
don't see me?
Laura
Leibowitz [5:19 PM]
6
now including me
I
see you
R.
Hookie [5:20 PM]
WHEW!!!!!
Laura
Leibowitz [5:20 PM]
It's
under channel details
brad_strickland
[5:20 PM]
I
just see three.
Laura
Leibowitz [5:20 PM]
OK...let
me see if I can get Watch2Gether going
It
looks like Brad, Garth, me, Hookie, Steve, and Tom
Steve_Smith
[5:20 PM]
oh
boy
Laura
Leibowitz [5:21 PM]
And
one more trying to log in...
R.
Hookie [5:21 PM]
Kathy
must be working on one of her recipes...
Laura
Leibowitz [5:22 PM]
OK,
let's do this thing.
Kick
back and grab some popcorn
https://www.watch2gether.com/rooms/ijbfc-mbrm7osc3l5p85x3t9
watch2gether.com
Let's
meet on Watch2Gether
Watch2Gether
lets you watch videos with your friends, synchronized at the same time.
Steve_Smith
[5:22 PM]
on
your mark ..
Laura
Leibowitz [5:22 PM]
If
anyone joins while the shows are in progress, please join at the above link!
brad_strickland
[5:24 PM]
Um,
I just got a panda sliding down a playground slide?
Judith
Greenberg [5:26 PM]
Am
I in?
Laura
Leibowitz [5:26 PM]
Yep!
Join
us in the Watch2Gether room...link above
Judith
Greenberg [5:27 PM]
Yay!
Jello!
Nothing
happened whenI clicked it
brad_strickland
[6:11 PM]
And
here we are.
Steve_Smith
[6:11 PM]
that
was fun..
Laura
Leibowitz [6:11 PM]
Some
of us...
R.
Hookie [6:12 PM]
Thanks
for leaving the light on...
Laura
Leibowitz [6:12 PM]
OK...most
of us.
So
thoughts, comments, observations?
Tom
V. [6:12 PM]
Enjoyed
both shows very much!
brad_strickland
[6:12 PM]
At
least Jack could USUALLY recycle a script with no loss of entertainment value. I
guess that comes from his comedic practice of "Gags with variations."
Steve_Smith
[6:12 PM]
i
needed this.. thanks so much for doing this Laura
R.
Hookie [6:12 PM]
I
like the double feature idea
brad_strickland
[6:12 PM]
Overall,
I liked the radio show a tad more, though the Stewarts were great.
Steve_Smith
[6:13 PM]
I
like Ronnie best..
Laura
Leibowitz [6:13 PM]
Also
there's some inherent variation of it being the Stewarts vs. the Colmans
brad_strickland
[6:13 PM]
As
I recall, the Stewart house looked pretty modest for a big star's home.
Laura
Leibowitz [6:13 PM]
I
have to give the radio show the higher grade.
You have all the regulars in the first half, and it's super fast-paced
brad_strickland
[6:13 PM]
I
mean the real-life one.
Agreed,
Laura. And Frank Nelson was in top form.
Laura
Leibowitz [6:14 PM]
And
Joe Kearns
Steve_Smith
[6:14 PM]
Every
colamn show I here I still laugh out loud..
oh
YEEES Frank too ... big smiles everytime
Laura
Leibowitz [6:15 PM]
So
fast-paced it felt like they were running for a train!
brad_strickland
[6:15 PM]
Ah,
Joseph Kearns missed the TV show by virtue of having passed away in 1962. He was
the first Mr. Wilson in "Dennis the Menace." If I recall, he went to
NY on business in the show and never came back. Chuck Cunningham syndrome.
Tom
V. [6:15 PM]
Joe
Kearns had passed away before the TV version was done.
R.
Hookie [6:15 PM]
I
like the faster pace... keeps the show moving
Laura
Leibowitz [6:15 PM]
Thanks
for looking that up...I was thinking he might have passed away by that time.
garth_johnson
[6:16 PM]
A
fine example of giving a good actor a good script and you get a great show no
matter who does it.
Tom
V. [6:16 PM]
You
beat me to it, Brad.
Laura
Leibowitz [6:16 PM]
Kind
of like when they redid Marilyn Monroe, and had to bring back Schlepperman
because Artie Auerbach had passed.
Steve_Smith
[6:16 PM]
if
a TV script is copied from radio ... did the radio writer get credit at the end?
brad_strickland
[6:16 PM]
If
you listen to a lot of OTR dramatic shows, Kearns's career is amazing. He was
all over the place.
Laura
Leibowitz [6:16 PM]
Steve
- Yes. Of course, they were
generally the same anyway.
brad_strickland
[6:16 PM]
Good
question, Steve!
Laura
Leibowitz [6:17 PM]
There
is at least one show where all six get writing credit.
brad_strickland
[6:17 PM]
And
that gave Jack the opportunity for some good jokes when he was guesting on other
shows--"You wouldn't DARE say that if my WRITERS were here!"
Laura
Leibowitz [6:18 PM]
Suggestions
for next month?
R.
Hookie [6:18 PM]
Another
double feature?
brad_strickland
[6:18 PM]
Something
about the May Company? See what I did there?
Laura
Leibowitz [6:18 PM]
Wah
wahhhh
R.
Hookie [6:18 PM]
I
see that
Laura
Leibowitz [6:18 PM]
Actually,
I think I can do both of those.
Steve_Smith
[6:18 PM]
Jack
tries to trade the Maxwell.. 40-10-27
brad_strickland
[6:18 PM]
"It's
May, it's May, the lusty month of May...."
Steve_Smith
[6:19 PM]
oh
.. May co. cool
Laura
Leibowitz [6:19 PM]
Steve
- That's an early Maxwell show! Well
before Mel.
Steve
- Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Could
back it with Just Plain Bill...
OK,
what other thoughts Benny-wise?
brad_strickland
[6:20 PM]
I
always wonder if Mel's story--that the sound fx record for the Maxwell was
missing and he just stepped up to the mike and did the sound--was factual or one
of those Hollywood stories.
Steve_Smith
[6:20 PM]
Oh
... it's just a real funny one.
Laura
Leibowitz [6:20 PM]
Brad
- I think there's a grain of truth, but probably well-embellished for a good
story.
R.
Hookie [6:20 PM]
Sometime,
I'd like us to do the GE Theaters
Laura
Leibowitz [6:20 PM]
Much
like Drear Pooson
Hookie
- That would be good for the summer replacement!
R.
Hookie [6:21 PM]
And
do a triple feature
brad_strickland
[6:21 PM]
Oh,
please don't tell me Don's Drear Pooson flub was scripted.
Steve_Smith
[6:21 PM]
is
tha Balzer interview out there to hear?
Laura
Leibowitz [6:21 PM]
Brad
- No, but the extent of Jack's reaction was nothing near what Frank described.
Steve
- Yes, I believe so!
Steve_Smith
[6:22 PM]
i
had it on mp3 years ago but can't find the disc..
i
give it a search..
also
lost my Frank Nelson one too.
Laura
Leibowitz [6:23 PM]
Hey,
thanks for being here folks! Very
fun to share these with you.
brad_strickland
[6:23 PM]
"Drear
Pooson" was a spoonerism, but not the worst I've heard. An American Lit
teacher once waxed enthusiastic and did a spoonerism on "Huck Finn."
And had to dismiss the class.
Thank
you, Laura. Always a pleasure.
R.
Hookie [6:23 PM]
It's
fun being here too!!!
Steve_Smith
[6:23 PM]
oh..
i guess it's close to bed time
thak
you so much.
Laura
Leibowitz [6:23 PM]
Have
a great month, folks! I'll see you
in May!
R.
Hookie [6:23 PM]
Good
night folks!
Tom
V. [6:23 PM]
Thank
you, Laura. And goodnight,
folks!
garth_johnson
[6:23 PM]
steve
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Steve_Smith
[6:23 PM]
you
too
good
night folks..
Judith
Greenberg [6:24 PM]
This
was great fun!