Wow. I just surfed YouTube for more George-Carlin videos, and found out that he used to be shaven and had hair on his head. At the danger of showing my tender age, I'm finding him hard to recognize like that. Here he is in 1968, on the Smothers Brothers.
I first saw Bob and Ray on Johnny Carson in the late 1960's. They also often appeared on Dick Cavett. I am a huge fan of their bits. My own humor was inspired by Bob and Ray's ability to say ridiculous things in a totally serious newsman sort of way. Bob and Ray met in the early 1950's when they were both straightforward newscasters for the same radio station. They first teamed up to do satirical reports about Senator Joseph McCarthy.
I was helping a friend move and so was driving a U-Haul down the interstate when a Bob & Ray sketch came on the radio. They were cowboys or something, and the entire sketch was them falling off their horses and getting back on. I laughed so hard I almost drove off the road.
If Johnny Carson or Dick Cavett asked Bob and Ray a totally mundane question, they would usually give an inappropriate answer.
Johnny Carson once innocently asked them "When is your album coming out?" Ray Goulding became agitated and said "We'll get it out, Johnny! Don't rush it! Gee!"
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Fri 12 Aug, 2011 01:25 pm
@joefromchicago,
Wow, Firesign Theater . . . that was a blast from the past. I didn't know they had done any filmed sketches.
You must have the wrong number . . . i spell my name . . . Danger . . .
Well, that's not really a filmed sketch. They recorded the album first, then they filmed the Firesigners lip-synching (badly) to the album's soundtrack. The only explanation I can think of is that it was the 1970s and that was what people did back in those days. Here's the first side of "Everything You Know is Wrong"
