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Thank you all. Wow, I remember most of these, too.
Monty Python! John Cleese! The Smothers Brothers! (Mom always liked you best.)
posted by
Pat_B
on January 15, 2014 at 3:42 AM
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Well Pat I remember one or two , but I don't think we had a television very early. I seem to remember my Mum saying she would prefer a refrigerator and there was not money for both.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 15, 2014 at 12:21 AM
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PatB
I loved 'em all good thing you reminded me of the names. I did love Wayne & Schuster up here.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 14, 2014 at 7:50 PM
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So many memories but we didn't get a tv until 1966 so I missed a lot of early comedy I expect and not all of it got to Austrlia.
I loved Danny Kaye in anything movie or on his show and Bob Hope and Milton Berle Phil Silvers...once one start one can go on and on and then we used to get more English comedy which was superb too.
I started listening to The Goon Show on radio as a teenager. My parents couldn't understand the gags the political inuendo but I loved it...it set the stage really for MOnty Python.
posted by
Kabu
on January 14, 2014 at 7:33 PM
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Everything you mentioned is so familiar to me. Fun stuff.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 14, 2014 at 2:31 PM
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I love the old comedians of the black & white era as well! How about Groucho's famous quip: "One day I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I don't know!" 
posted by
JimmyA
on January 14, 2014 at 2:24 PM
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I'm a big Carlina fan. I had a chance to see him in Baltimore, but I went to a soccer game instead. He passed away a few months later.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 14, 2014 at 10:08 AM
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Pat
You awaken memories! But I must also mention Carol Burnett, one of my all-time faves...The only one we'll never agree on is Garrison Kiellor - I can't even stand his voice, LOL...But isn't it nice that friends can agree to disagree? 
posted by
Nautikos
on January 14, 2014 at 7:47 AM
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i like red skelton and at the end of his shows he'd always apologize if he offended anyone and said God bless.
posted by
Carolyn_Moe
on January 14, 2014 at 6:34 AM
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Bill Cosby.
I love the comedians who understand that shock only gets a startled laugh once, but true humor--absurdity, novelty, surprise--stays with us, keeping us thinking even as we smile.
posted by
Ciel
on January 14, 2014 at 6:21 AM
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