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No Frills Airline
Verities & Balderdash
By Bob Robinson

How many of you remember the Carol Burnett Show? Raise your hands. I thought so… there’s still a bunch of us out there.

I look back on the days of early television variety shows and sitcoms with a sense of longing. They were funny, non-political and “G” rated. The whole family could actually sit down and enjoy an hour or two of television without a parent’s face getting red when a child would ask, “daddy, what is a (insert whatever word you wish, it has probably been used on today’s television)?”

Remember Art Linkletter? Ted Mack? Ed Sullivan? Red Skelton? Bob Newhart? Mary Tyler Moore? The Newlyweds? I Love Lucy? Good grief… if you stop and think about it, the list is almost endless.

This was sent to me by a loyal reader who, if I remember right, has followed my antics from The Advocate to my blog and now to County News Online. A staunch supporter of common sense, this transplanted Greenville native (living in Maryland but only for the moment) has sent some real gems, both in comments and in forwarded emails.

This is a gem! And I quote:

“Oh for the days of the variety show.  My personal favorite was the Siamese elephant sketch. No Frills Airlines (FUNNY!). Harvey Korman and Tim Conway were ahead of their time!”

If your memory needs jogging… the reference is to the Carol Burnett Show. Carol was a genius. Harvey was pretty good. But both paled in comparison to Tim Conway, one of the funniest performers I believe I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch in my lifetime.

Click on the link below and sit back for a little over nine minutes of grins, memories and maybe even a few guffaws. When it’s over, if you still haven’t had enough of Carol and her partners in laughter, you have seven or eight more gems to choose from.

Click here and enjoy!

Until the next time, God Bless.


 
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