I remember reading the story of Kroc and the MacDonald brothers in David Halberstam's "The Fifties." What Kroc was angry about was that the MacDonald brothers weren't doing anything in the way of heavy lifting in expanding the franchise idea, and to top it off they wanted the two million dollars that they were to…
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That was one Jalop couple. I can't imagine using a car like that as a daily driver.
Negron came up on the LA comedy scene around the same time as David Letterman, and he appeared on both of Dave's late night shows quite a bit, as other comics from that period do. (Tom Dreesen, George Miller, and Jeff Altman, among others, come to mind.) And every other time Taylor was on Letterman's show, Dave would…
I remember reading somewhere that the Queen drove what she called a "Canadian Ford" Galaxie Wagon in the early 1960's, to more easily haul both Kiddos and Corgis. I'm pretty sure that Fords manufactured in Canada in that time frame would have been LHD.
The TV versions of Jack Benny's Christmas Show have their moments, especially when Frank Nelson turns up as everyone's favorite snotty salesman, who is more than happy to give Jack the business. Then again, all of Nelson's appearances on the Benny show were comedy gold.
And for that matter, where is the hour long Married With Children Christmas special, "It's A Bundyful Life" with Sam Kinison as Al's Christmas angel?
Baer has made some pretty good dough suing over the years. Somehow he picked up the movie rights to the Madonna song, "Like A Virgin". ABC attempted to keep him from making a TV movie based on the song. He wound up getting a two million dollar settlement. Also, he has tried to get a casino based on The Beverly…
I read where each holiday season Johnny Carson would set up a conference call with friends, and give a running takedown on each year's "Kathy Lee Gifford's Christmas Special." Now that's a Hallmark Christmas movie I'd like to see, "Johnny Shreds Kathy!" With Valerie Bertinelli as Kathy Lee Gifford and Kevin Spacey…
These two women remind me of the Mother/Daughter combo that Daniel Tosh introduced us to on his show. They are from Mt. Vernon,Indiana and insane doesn't even begin to describe them.
The only reason that I can figure Silverman's dislike of game shows is that most of them were done by outside producers. Since daytime televsion wasn't the revenue spinner that it is now, it might have been a move to use NBC's facilities in Rockefeller Center for a two hour Letterman daytime show that would be…
If memory serves, he also produced "In The Heat Of The Night" with Carroll O'Connor. Between it and "Matlock", NBC owned the elderly crime watching audience.
At least Silverman got one thing right. He put David Letterman under an exclusive contract to NBC, and green lit what would become "The David Letterman Show." Even after it was cancelled, Silverman said, "David's morning show wasn't a failure. The time slot we put in failed the show."
Cartman had a similar line on South Park, when the boys were starting a band, and told Token to go home and get his bass. Token protested that his family didn't have a bass, and even if they did he didn't know how to play it. Cartman told him, "Token, you're black! Your family has a bass." Cut to the next scene,…
NBC couldn't have botched both late night transfers if they planned to. And the opening scene of William Knodleseder's book "I'm Dying Up Here" was at George Miller's wake, which Letterman paid for and at which Jay Leno was one of the featured speakers made an interesting point. Most of the guests, such as Tom…
Conan simply didn't have enough sense to revisit history and make sure that he had the 11:30 guarantee in his contract with NBC. As for Letterman, he had a legitimate gripe about being passed over but not with Leno, until his manager started screwing around and banning guests from appearing on the Tonight Show if…
I wonder if Dave will be giving Craig a vintage Cadillac when he leaves, as he did Tom Snyder. I'm not sure if Craiggers got anything from Letterman when he left, other than a letter of recommendation.
You left out Steve Allen and Ernie Kovacs.
I wonder if Leno will screw Fallon over by making a surprise "pop-in" on Letterman's show first.
The last time I checked, Paul Mooney was Richard Pryor's writing partner for years. Most big time comedians use writers.