ChronoGrl
01-20-2009, 04:26 PM
I'm completely geeking out over this comedy retrospective that's currently on PBS. I highly recommend it.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/makeemlaugh/
The first episode, Would Ya Hit a Guy with Glasses?: Nerds, Jerks, & Oddballs covers everyone from Woody Allen to Steve Martin to Phyllis Diller and beyond. Fantastic documentary pseudo-biography coverage of the history of dorks in comedy and that left me giggling all the way through.
I think that Phyllis Diller stuck out to me particularly. While I've heard that name before, I had never actually seen her stand-up. What a brilliant, cutting-edge, before-her-time feminist. It's fascinating and inspiring to see a woman who, in an era where women were expected to play the little housewife, instead lampooned her deadbeat husband and her mother-in-law for a change.
And we get to see early Martin - You canNOT go wrong with that. Clips of him with Bill Murray and Gilda Radner on SNL as the iconic "geeks." What fun!
Though, for some reason, Urkle rears his ugly head... But that's OK. I forgive it.
If you have PBS, definitely check it out. It's a LOT of fun.
I am now watching the next episode Honey, I’m Home!: Breadwinners and Homemakers - Not as good as the first one, but I'm partial to the geek comics.
Has anyone watched this show? Anyone else here interested in documentaries? And if YOU were to write this documentary, who would YOU put in it? Who do YOU think are quintessential comedians of the world?
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/makeemlaugh/
The first episode, Would Ya Hit a Guy with Glasses?: Nerds, Jerks, & Oddballs covers everyone from Woody Allen to Steve Martin to Phyllis Diller and beyond. Fantastic documentary pseudo-biography coverage of the history of dorks in comedy and that left me giggling all the way through.
I think that Phyllis Diller stuck out to me particularly. While I've heard that name before, I had never actually seen her stand-up. What a brilliant, cutting-edge, before-her-time feminist. It's fascinating and inspiring to see a woman who, in an era where women were expected to play the little housewife, instead lampooned her deadbeat husband and her mother-in-law for a change.
And we get to see early Martin - You canNOT go wrong with that. Clips of him with Bill Murray and Gilda Radner on SNL as the iconic "geeks." What fun!
Though, for some reason, Urkle rears his ugly head... But that's OK. I forgive it.
If you have PBS, definitely check it out. It's a LOT of fun.
I am now watching the next episode Honey, I’m Home!: Breadwinners and Homemakers - Not as good as the first one, but I'm partial to the geek comics.
Has anyone watched this show? Anyone else here interested in documentaries? And if YOU were to write this documentary, who would YOU put in it? Who do YOU think are quintessential comedians of the world?