Tag: Jack Benny

• Vintage Cable Box: “To Be Or Not To Be, 1983”

  “Listen, if I don’t come back, then I forgive you for anything that happened between you and Lt. Sobinski.  But if I do come back, you’re in a lot of trouble!” To Be Or Not To Be, 1983 (Mel Brooks), 20th Century Fox The story goes that Mel Brooks sought out the widow of Ernst…

  lawlerd

  June 27, 2016

  Blog

  1941, 1983, Alan Johnson, Anne Bancroft, Carole Lombard, Charles Durning, comedy, concentration camp, Ernst Lubitsch, George Gaynes, George Wyner, Germans, Jack Benny, Jews, José Ferrer, Mel Brooks, musical, Nazi Germany, original movie, remake, romance, Tim Matheson, To Be Or Not To Be, war movie, Warsaw, World War II

• “Airplane Glue Not Included”

  We’re going back in the history of stand-up comedy, and I wondered where it started. If you look at all the reference material, England is where it begins – officially anyway. 18th, 19th Century Arthur Askey, Ken Dodd and then there was a heavy censorship campaign so the censors would use a blue pen to…

  lawlerd

  March 22, 2015

  Podcast

  Arthur Askey, Bronwyn Knox, David Lawler, Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Podcast, stand-up comedy

• Podcast: “Airplane Glue Not Included”

  We’re going back in the history of stand-up comedy, and I wondered where it started. If you look at all the reference material, England is where it begins – officially anyway. 18th, 19th Century Arthur Askey, Ken Dodd and then there was a heavy censorship campaign so the censors would use a blue pen to…

  lawlerd

  February 3, 2015

  Uncategorized

  Arthur Askey, Bronwyn Knox, David Lawler, George Burns, humor, Jack Benny, Ken Dodd, Lenny Bruce, Podcast, stand-up comedy