[PRCo] Re: ot Arthur Godfrey

[Fred Schneider]

On the other hand, Red Skelton pushed the envelope for his time  
period, did he not?

I don't mean the line where his drunk stumbled out of the phone booth  
to figure out where he was, then fell back into the booth and said to  
his wife, "I'm ... at... the corner of .... walk ... and .... don'walk."

But there was a rather crude Red Skelton line about the guy who came  
home so plastered that he barfed up his guts, and then he remarked,  
"But with the grace of God and a long handled spoon, I got everything  
back where it belonged."     As the drunk Clem Kadiddlehopper or some  
other character he invented?

I think, though, my personal favorite was Bob Hope.   I think you had  
to admire a man who gave up so many holidays with his wife and  
adopted children to entertain the troops.   He also had some of the  
best writers in the business who could take current events and make  
jokes out them.   He always left me in stitches.   I've always  
wondered if his role model wasn't Will Rogers because their humor was  
so much alike.


On Oct 6, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> I remember Red Skeleton challenging Eddie Murphy with this same  
> point of view.
>
> I don't recall Mr. Murphy's response.
>
> K.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>> Sent: Oct 6, 2007 2:58 PM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: ot Arthur Godfrey
>>
>> Sadly no one today understands that we could have enjoyable shows
>> without filth.   Don't get me wrong, I'm not a puritan.   I just
>> don't think every other word needs to be garbage.   I worked with
>> railroaders in my life.   I can swear too if the spirit dictates.
>> But we don;t need to make make every sentence out of curse words.
>