Category: Comedy
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The Golden Girls On The Golden Girls
Here’s a selection of interviews with the stars of The Golden Girls. To begin, an incongruous one, when Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty appeared on The Word in 1992. Here Rue McClanahan discusses her development of Blanche. Betty White is candid here about the chemistry between the cast. Here Rue talks about the casting of…
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The George Carlin Show
In January of 1994, the first episode of The George Carlin Show premiered on the Fox network. Co-created by the titular star and Sam Simon (who got sole credit), a long time writer of The Simpsons and Cheers, it was set in a New York tavern based on one frequented by Carlin’s father, and where…
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The Silver Girl
This is a convoluted story of sitcoms crossing back and forth across the Atlantic. It begins with Alf Garnett and his first sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. Norman Lear read a synopsis of this show, and it triggered an idea in his head about a sitcom based on his own relationship with his father.…
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Smashie And Nicey’s Late Licence
Smashie and Nicey got around a lot more than I realised in their time. Here they are fronting the Channel 4 late night strip called Late Licence, which they describe in their own inimitable style.
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Humming
Hmmmmm. Hmmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
