'70's Comedy: Who Or What Made You Laugh?

[HustleBaby]

1.Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder flicks such as Stir Crazy

2.There was a ventriloquist doll dressed in sequins, satin turbans and feather boas. I think her name started with "Madame" and she had a combination of Phyllis Diller and Ruth Buzzi.

3.Paul Lynde

4.Candid Camera



*DELIGHTFUL*

[HustleBaby]

1.Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder flicks such as Stir Crazy

2.There was a ventriloquist doll dressed in sequins, satin turbans and feather boas. I think her name started with "Madame" and she had a combination of Phyllis Diller and Ruth Buzzi.

3.Paul Lynde

4.Candid Camera

5.Steve Martin



*DELIGHTFUL*

[Boodikka]

Hustle, the act you're referring to is Wayland Flowers and Madame. They got their first big break on the 1977 version of LAUGH-IN, which was also the first big break for Robin Williams. This LAUGH-IN was VERY racy, and none too PC. It had PLENTY of down-low gay humor ( which would be expected with performers such as Flowers and Michael Sklar ), jokes that got past the censors because the censors didn't "get it".

[bobbchap]

WOW! This is tough.. there were a lot of funny people. Some of my favs are...

Polly Holiday - Flo from "Alice" - "Mel!! KISS MY GRITS"
:lol:

Mary Tyler Moore - perfect - one of my favorites was when Ted took Mary to an award show and Mary was sooo sick, and when Ted got there to pick her up, Mary looked like "hell", and the evening got worse..poor Ted.

"All in the Family"

"the Jeffersons"

"Sonny and Cher" {not the CHER show or the Sonny Bono show} They were at their best when they put each other down. :D

"The Partridge Family"...it was a funny show, but I had a major crush on David Cassidy, hell with the jokes.. bring on David...
:D :roll: :-? ... anyway. That's a different topic for a different forum.

"Carol Burnett" - a true queen of comedy..

and speaking of queen of comedy, {I have a lot of queens for comedy} but..
"Here's Lucy" - I never missed that show.

Betty White as The Happy homemaker on "Mary..."

Paul Lynde as the center square on "Hollywood Squares"

"Maude"

"One day at a time"

"Alice"

There are just too many. The comedies of the 70's broke a lot of new grounds for tv. And to watch them today is just as fun. They are soooooo 70's. {of course} The bright colors of the sets, the clothes, all the way down to Rhoda's beads hanging in her doorway....I LOVE EM'.

Talk about memories. :D

I dressed like them....and yes..I had the beads in my bedroom too.....and we had shag carpet :o never figured I'ld admit that. :lol:

[Nano]

Well, I was a child in the Seventies and our TV didn't offer better international material as Dick van Dyke reruns or Muppets reruns. Luckily, we had maybe the best comedian of our country ever... a guy called Alberto Olmedo who was really a show.
Years later, I discovered some Seventies buffons like Mr. Allen or the Monty Python (remember the deaf race? Oh maaaaaan!).
Some of my favorite Woody Allen jokes on film:

1) "Don't move or I'll kill the President!" says Woody pointing his gun to... a nose (Sleeper, 1973)
2) "HEY MARK! HOW MUCH FOR 'ORGASM'?" (a woman behind the counter showing the porn magazine Woody is buying in Bananas, 1971)
3) "Don't bluff a bluffer" (Manhattan murder mystery, 1993)
4) "Let's go before they take prisoners" (seeing a punk concert in Hannah and her sisters, 1986)
5) "We're just friends!" (Gene Wilder and the sheep busted by reporters in Everything you always wanted to know about sex, 1972)

Right now, my top favorite is "Don't bluff a bluffer"... a bit too complicated to explain: rent the movie and see for yourself.

[efunk_adelic]

Funny people/shows of the 70's.... that made me laugh... well let's see:


Sanford & Son: w/ Aunt Esther
Saturday Night Live
Carol Burnett Show - All of them


wow, that's all I can think of :oops:

[QUINNY]

For me many of the above, especially Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder.

One LP I really liked from 1968/9 was 'You Can't Beat People Up And Have Them Say I love You' by Murray Roman. His follow up about a year later 'Blind Man's Movie' wasn't quite as funny.

In 'YCBPUAHTSILY' there were many hilarious sketches made even funnier by the sniggers and laughing of the live audience. The most infamous sketch (and the best one on the LP) was about a being on the road and visiting towns and doing gigs in the middle of nowhere and a joint smoking roadie picking up a woman who acts really coy, only to be an absolute screaming nympho once he has her in the sack. Lines like "this is a small town, everybody here knows me", "I live at Miss Margaret's boarding house" "they creep up the stairs, go into her room, sshh, quiet, don't turn on the lightswitch it clicks, it'll make a noise. So they get undressed, get onto the bed, he gets on top of her and she screams "Fuck me, rape me, tell me I'm a whore, tell me I'm a Jew, anything, anything and with that the police burst into the room and bust him". After 30 odd years lots of details missing, but you get the drift.
Another good sketch was about a guy who has a whole load of bananas rotting on the side of the dock. "so there's this guy with a whole load of bananas rotting on the side of the dock. He turns to his friend and he says "I got these lousy bananas going to waste on the side of the dock, rotting. What am I gonna do, what am I gonna do" His friend turns to him and says " well, we'll make them into joints and get some groovy guy to say you can get high on bananas".
"Hey, why doncha call the police department at three o'clock in the morning and speak to them in German. If they answer in German, you got 'em, babe..."
Then there was the idea of a drugged out version of Snow White: "Get high one day and read it. Sleepy would be a downer freak, into Seconals, droppin' up all day. Dopey would be a grass smoker...Sneezy was a coke sniffer. Grumpy was a speed freak. Happy was an acid head: "I love you, I love you." Bashful was a juicer. And Doc was the connection. Dig where that is. And Snow White...was their fantasy!"

Much of the LP was hit and miss, but the good stuff were gems.