I wish I had lived in the times of ....

[SnoopDog]

..... Andy Kaufman.

This guy has been (or still is ? ) a genious.

Man he must have been freaking hilarious at his time, when nobody knew what he was up to.

Damn, sometimes I hate being born and having grown up in the 80s/90s, it wasn't really a good time for cool things, was it?

http://www.handwritinguniversity.com/newslettersamples/andykaufman/andypsycho.jpg

'Man on the moon' is also one of my four most favourite movies.

Snoopy

 

[cloudy]

He died in 1984.

While I thought he was hilarious when he just started out, and on "Taxi," as he got more famous, he just got obnoxious.

 

[SnoopDog]

Yeah, I knew he died. I just wanted to play on the fact, that many people believed his death to be another prank.

Well, I guess his humour wasn't for everybody but you have to give him credit for being waaaay ahead of his time.

Seing the total post number in this thread I believe not many people care about him or maybe don't like him.

Snoopy

 

[Guest]

Thanks for making me feel old Snoop. Yeah, he was funny in Taxi and Carol Kane was great as his girlfriend/wife! Like Cloudy, he got obnoxious after, but to him it was his art. I don't have to like it.

If you want genius from that era, you missed Robin Williams as Mork. The first season is a classic.

And the first couple of years of SNL were good too.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I was thinking this was the kind of thread were everyone finishes the sentance for themselves.

I remember some good stuff from the 80's and 90's. Not the decades I would pick though.

 

[SnoopDog]

Thanks for making me feel old Snoop. Yeah, he was funny in Taxi and Carol Kane was great as his girlfriend/wife! Like Cloudy, he got obnoxious after, but to him it was his art. I don't have to like it.

If you want genius from that era, you missed Robin Williams as Mork. The first season is a classic.

And the first couple of years of SNL were good too.

Robin Williams seems to be very famous for his comedic talent, his stand-ups and his shows.

Since in Germany he's almost only known as a movie-star we don't really get to see him in anything else than his movies (which are always brilliant and funny by the way). What a shame.

Snoopy

 

[Guest]

Robin Williams seems to be very famous for his comedic talent, his stand-ups and his shows.

Since in Germany he's almost only known as a movie-star we don't really get to see him in anything else than his movies (which are always brilliant and funny by the way). What a shame.

Snoopy

Even his interviews are hysterical. An Acting school in New York City invites actors in for conversations before an audience of acting students. It is carried on a cable network ("Inside the Actor's Studio").

His interview was on recently. They are usually an hour long, but his was two hours because he couldn't answer a question with going into a huge riff. It's priceless.

I saw him onstage in the early 80's just as he was getting famous as Mork.

Living in San Francisco, it was not uncommon to see him out and about with his family. When he's not on stage, he is painfully shy apparently, and the few times I saw thim, he seemed to avoid contact with people. Although his wife was sweet.

One Christmas, at the symphony's Peter and the Wolf presentation, he was the unannounced assistant conductor. He stood next to the conductor and mimed the story. Apparently the conductor almost fell from the stage several times laughing. As the San Fran cisco Chronicle put it, "Robin Williams is a National Treasure, but he is our National Treasure."

 

[EnglishMuffin]

Seing the total post number in this thread I believe not many people care about him or maybe don't like him.

Snoopy

could you be more passive agressive? no wonder no girl kisses you, snoopie

 

[shereads]

For practical necessities, we live in the best time ever. Consider the number of minor medical ailments that used to be fatal (or incurable and sufficiently disabling to make people wish they were fatal): a scratch that became infected, a broken bone, a toothache. The flu. It hasn't been that long ago that families expected to lose one or more of their children as a matter of course. And of course, everyone had fleas.

I wouldn't go back, for those reasons alone.

For pure fantasy, I love the Victorian era, feudal Europe and ancient Greece. Fantasy assumes that I wouldn't be among the vast majority who lived in squalor, popping out babies until my body gave up.

Thomas Cahill's book, "Sailing a Wine-Dark Sea," reveals a lot I didn't know about Athenian democracy, family life and sexual values. If you'd like to maintain some naivete about the civilization that most influenced ours, keep away.

I have a friend who has a friend who has another friend whose cousin admits she indulges an occasional slave-girl fantasy, with Greece or Rome as a favorite setting. (Who doesn't look fabulous in a toga?) In Cahill's book she learned that a woman's life was awful enough back then, without bringing slavery into the equation. Concubines didn't just await a summons to the master's bedchamber. They scrubbed floors and survived on scraps. If a female slave was called as a witness in a legal hearing, Athens law made it mandatory that she be tortured first. If her owner was reluctant to turn her over for torture, his behavior was considered suspicious. Not so romantic. There are places in the third world where life isn't much better, but I don't live there or fantasize about it.

 

[EnglishMuffin]

For pure fantasy, I love the ancient Greece. If a female slave was called as a witness in a legal hearing, Athens law made it mandatory that she be tortured first. If her owner was reluctant to turn her over for torture, his behavior was considered suspicious.

cv told me u r on His ignore list He's doing the right thing, then

 

[shereads]

cv told me u r on His ignore list He's doing the right thing, then

I'm glad you brought that up, whoever you are. I gather I'm in disfavor with CV, but I haven't got a clue why.

Since he's been behaving like an ass, has refused to answer a direct question in PM about what might be bothering him, and has now made his snit public via you, here's the extent of what I know about CV:

He asked me to proofread a story for him. I took considerable time doing so, because I like his writing and felt flattered that he had asked.

We exchanged a lighthearted PM or two. I liked his sense of humor. He said he was leaving the AH. I tried to talk him out of it. He asked me to share my name and address. I declined, as I have for all but a single person here.

Next thing I knew, I began to get PMs from people I didn't know, indicating that I had hurt CVs feelings somehow. I was supposed to have read a story that he wrote for someone else. I think. That's a guess on my part, based on clues gleaned in the few minutes I was willing to spend reading vaguely rude, stream-of-consciousness ramblings sent to me by strangers. I don't know what they were about or why I was singled out. I think one or some of them might have been CV. Maybe you are.

I sent a PM asking if something was bothering him/you, and got no reply. And now you announce that I'm on ignore. Allrighty, then. Have your pout, mock your own talent by writing incoherent rants, but don't PM them to me. (I'm hard to ignore if you're stalking me.) Now go sober up and write a story or something. Ask some other stooge to proofread it for you this time.

 

[BlackSnake]

I love the character he play on Taxi, and when they added the girlfriend...he rocked with her....

 

[EnglishMuffin]

lol

 

[cloudy]

If you want genius from that era, you missed Robin Williams as Mork. The first season is a classic.

And the first couple of years of SNL were good too.

Everytime I get eggs out of the refridgerator, I still have an insane urge to toss them up in the air, and say, "Fly! Be free!"



SNL rocked the first few years.....it still has flashes of brilliance, but it's nothing like it was when it started.

 

[Guest]

Everytime I get eggs out of the refridgerator, I still have an insane urge to toss them up in the air, and say, "Fly! Be free!"



SNL rocked the first few years.....it still has flashes of brilliance, but it's nothing like it was when it started.

The mark of an itelligent person is how much they agree with me.

Cloudy - you are brilliant.
A genius goddess.

 

[cloudy]

The mark of an itelligent person is how much they agree with me.

Cloudy - you are brilliant.
A genius goddess.

thanks, but it's more likely that we just both have a sense of humor that's a tad twisted from all the dope we smoked back in the seventies.

Mork was an awesome show, and looking back, it's hard to believe that a network actually aired it.

Third Rock From the Sun approached the same level of insanity (did you ever see the Thanksgiving episode? )

 

[china-doll]

Mork was an awesome show, and looking back, it's hard to believe that a network actually aired it.

Where else would we have gotten such choice phrases like: NaNoo NaNoo and Shazbots.

(I have no idea how those are actually spelled )

 

[Guest]

thanks, but it's more likely that we just both have a sense of humor that's a tad twisted from all the dope we smoked back in the seventies.

I never smoked. That bong in my room was a ceramic class project, is all.

Mork was an awesome show, and looking back, it's hard to believe that a network actually aired it.


Just checked. First season of M&M is on DVD. Just put it on my Amazon Wish List.

Third Rock From the Sun approached the same level of insanity (did you ever see the Thanksgiving episode? )

Enjoying that more now in late night. I'll watch for the Thanksgiving episode.

The best Thanksgiving episode, mentioned in a prior AH thread, was WKRP's.

"As God is my witness, I thought Turkey's could fly."

 

[cloudy]

Enjoying that more now in late night. I'll watch for the Thanksgiving episode.

The best Thanksgiving episode, mentioned in a prior AH thread, was WKRP's.

"As God is my witness, I thought Turkey's could fly."

I remember the Turkey episode.

The TRFTS Thanksgiving episode is probably one of the funniest things I've ever seen....had tears running down my face, and my stomach was killing me.

 

[C's Button]

giggling like a madwoman Picture if you will, a shy young woman from the Middle East who is still on that time zone even though she is now in the US.. She has insomnia so she is channel surfing at 3 am. Nick at Night is on ( or maybe it was TVLand) and after watching Timmy fall in the well, and wondering why Lovey brought all those clothes on a 3 hour tour, Taxi comes on. It is the episode where Latka goes to Alex for help in dealing with Simpka and her "cycle" where she was PMSing. I rolled laughing. Especially when she got all protective of her bbq chips. I remember thinking that this country was seriously strange and I was going to fit right in.

Anyway, if we are talking about television and stuff that we wished we were alive for; I am actually thinking it would be best to go back to when there were silent films and stuff, or when drive in movies were still big.

 

[Guest]

Note: The turkey scene was very good, but the turkey on the head was 'borrowed' from Rowen Atkinson (a Mr. Bean episode I think, Christmas Carol? or Black Adder?).

Perdita

 

[shereads]

"As God is my witness, I thought Turkey's could fly."

"Oh, the humanity."

 

[Guest]

giggling like a madwoman Picture if you will, a shy young woman from the Middle East ... I remember thinking that this country was seriously strange and I was going to fit right in.

Welcome to America. You found one of the oddest corners right here.

Anyway, if we are talking about television and stuff that we wished we were alive for; I am actually thinking it would be best to go back to when there were silent films and stuff, or when drive in movies were still big.

So right. There is a certain kind of comedy that could only be done silent. Chaplin, Keystone Cops, Buster Keaton etc. If someone had a script today that was best done silent, no one would dare make it, I suspect. Too bad. That kind of comedy can play to the ends of the earth.

Drive-Ins. There are less than a dozen in my state now, down from hundreds. When I was a kid, parents could dress the kids for bed, take them to the drive in for peanuts (and popcorn). After the first movie, the kids would fall asleep and the parents could enjoy a movie for grownups without having to spend money for a sitter. We lost something when Drive-Ins went away.

Meanwhile, in the back row, the older teens are losing their virginity. Note to self: Write a drive-in sex story so the kids see what they are missing.

 

[shereads]

Warning: single-post hijack

"Oh, the humanity."

Ulp.

That line was so funny in context of that Thanksgiving episode of WKRP. Les Nesmond's coverage of the falling turkeys, the Hindenburg disaster...
Then I looked at my post, and remembered the first time I saw film of that moment - the flames, the falling bodies, the panic on the ground, the newsman choking out the odd choice of words that expressed too much. It could have been the soundtrack for the disaster two weeks ago. Suddenly I'm ashamed to be having fun.

Oh, the humanity.

 

[C's Button]

Drive-Ins. There are less than a dozen in my state now, down from hundreds. When I was a kid, parents could dress the kids for bed, take them to the drive in for peanuts (and popcorn). After the first movie, the kids would fall asleep and the parents could enjoy a movie for grownups without having to spend money for a sitter. We lost something when Drive-Ins went away.

Meanwhile, in the back row, the older teens are losing their virginity. Note to self: Write a drive-in sex story so the kids see what they are missing.

Thank you for the welcome. I have actually wandered further afield, but may end up back there eventually

The drive in story. Yes please!