Muscatine

I don't watch much on Iowa public television, but by chance I caught part of a series that ran on there last month. The programs were on comedy and started with Vaudville, it talked about people like George Burns and Jack Benny who were able to jump from vaudville to radio and then those who could jump from radio to television.  One night the show featured slap stick with movies and people like the Marx brothers and the Three Stoogies.  One show was on cesorship and  featured people like Lenny Bruce and Mae West .  Those were the only episodes I saw.  then I also caught a two hour special just on George Carlin that had some real early stuff of his ( he wore a suit and tie). 

I will try to watch and if the shows are repeated, i'll post it on NL so you can watch if interested.   

Yep, I miss a lot of those old comedians.  One of them I used to really like was Rodney Dangerfield.  Always getting dumped on and complaining about it.  One of his I remember:  "I just bought a used car.  Found my wife's dress in the back seat!".

Most all of Mel Brooks movies make me laugh out loud everytime I re-run them.  Also Steve Martin and John Candy in Trains,Planes & Automobiles.    Those have to be some of the funniest ever made (at least for my type of humor).

I totally agree about mel brooks, thats a man with a warped sense of humour..he is absolutely funny.

I think the absolute best steve martin movies are "the man with two brains" and the" jerk". That was steve martin at his best!

You can certainly catch a classic clip of completely comical conversational confusion compounded cleverly as committed on Carson with a cantankerous cop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpVjW30I-YU

Enjoy!