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Here is a
"HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"
a little spark of madness
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
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Tony Figueroa
I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson. Read the full "Pre-ramble"
Sunday, December 04, 2022
Saturday, December 03, 2022
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
Here is a
"HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"
a little spark of madness
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Bing Crosby & David Bowie
Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"
a little spark of madness
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
The Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth.
Music video by Bing Crosby & David Bowie performing
Tony Figueroa
Friday, December 02, 2022
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: MST3K #521 - Santa Claus
Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"
a little spark of madness
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Santa Claus It's Christmas time on the SOL! After Mike and the 'bots exchange gifts, they get to watch a movie where Santa Claus has to outwit Satan in order to deliver gifts.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Santa Claus It's Christmas time on the SOL! After Mike and the 'bots exchange gifts, they get to watch a movie where Santa Claus has to outwit Satan in order to deliver gifts.
Tony Figueroa
Thursday, December 01, 2022
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: The Richard Pryor Show - Santa Claus
Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"
a little spark of madness
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
TV History
December 1, 1940
Richard Pryor is born in Peoria, Illinois. According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications, Pryor was “the first African-American stand-up comedian to speak candidly and successfully to integrated audiences using the language and jokes blacks previously only shared among themselves when they were most critical of America. His comic style emancipated African-American humor.”
December 1, 1945
Bette Midler is born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
By the time she appeared as the final guest of Johnny Carson's 30-year career on The Tonight Show and brought tears to the unflappable host's eyes with an emotional performance of "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)," she was an established star of stage and screen—a Tony winner, an Oscar nominee, a Grammy winner and a multimillion-selling recording artist. It would be difficult, however, to imagine a more unorthodox path to mainstream stardom than the one followed by Bette Midler—"The Divine Miss M"—who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on this day in 1945.
Equal parts Judy Garland and Ethel Merman, Bette Midler early on set her sights on making it in New York City. Arriving in New York in 1965, Midler soon tried out for the national touring company of Fiddler On The Roof only to land the role of Tzeitel (and the job of singing "Matchmaker" eight times a week) in the Broadway production instead. After several years of singing in various Manhattan nightclubs on the side, she got what would prove to be the most important gig of her career, singing poolside nightly at the fabled Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse/cabaret in the basement of the Ansonia building on West 72nd Street in Manhattan. It was there, in collaboration with a young pianist named Barry Manilow, that she fully developed her "Divine Miss M" stage persona—a brash, campy interpreter of numbers ranging from "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and "Leader Of The Pack" to "Superstar" and "Delta Dawn." It was at the Continental Baths that Atlantic Records chief Ahmet Ertegun discovered Midler and signed her to record the album that made her a star: The Divine Miss M (1972). That album, which made an unlikely pop hit out of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (Billboard #8, June 1973), earned Midler the Best New Artist award at the 1973 Grammy Awards.
Though she would remain a beloved favorite of a significant fan base over the next decade or so, her only pop hit during that period was the theme song from the 1979 movie The Rose. In 1986, however, her flagging Hollywood career was revived by a comic turn in Paul Mazursky's Down And Out In Beverly Hills. Two years later, she would earn a Record of the Year Grammy and her first and only #1 pop hit with "Wing Beneath My Wings," from the 1988 movie Beaches, in which Midler co-starred alongside Barbara Hershey.
December 1, 1950
Keith Thibodeaux is born. The former child actor and musician is best known for playing “Little Ricky” in the I Love Lucy and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour television shows.
Tony Figueroa
Monday, November 28, 2022
This Week in Television History: November 2022 PART V
November 28, 1962
Talk-show host and comedian Jon Stewart born.
Stewart’s irreverent take on national and world events has been a huge hit with audiences and has even led some viewers to cite The Daily Show as their primary source of news.
Raised in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz attended the College of William and Mary and after graduation began performing stand-up comedy at clubs in New York City. In 1991, he became host of Short Attention Span Theater on Comedy Central, which was followed in 1992 by You Wrote It, You Watch It on MTV. In 1993, he hosted a half-hour program, The Jon Stewart Show, also on MTV. A late-night, nationally syndicated version of the program launched the following year but was cancelled in 1995.
In January 1999, Stewart took over hosting duties of The Daily Show
from Craig Kilborn, who had hosted the show since its 1996 debut on Comedy
Central and left to replace Tom Snyder as host of The Late Late Show.
With Stewart in the anchor seat, The Daily Show typically opens with a
monologue about the day’s news stories, followed by a satirical report from one
of the program’s “fake news” correspondents. (Previous correspondents have
included Steve Carrell, who was a Daily Show regular from 1999 to 2004 and
went on to star in such movies as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Little Miss
Sunshine and Get Smart and the NBC sitcom The Office. Another
Daily Show correspondent, Stephen Colbert, left the program in 2005 to
launch his own spin-off, The Colbert Report.) During the final
segment of the half-hour Daily Show, Stewart conducts interviews with
politicians, authors, Hollywood celebrities or other newsmakers. The Daily
Show has won multiple Emmy Awards, and in 2004 Stewart and his writing
staff released a best-selling mock-history textbook titled America (The
Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction.
In addition to hosting The Daily Show, Stewart served as master of
ceremonies for Hollywood’s biggest annual event, the Academy Awards, in 2006
and 2008. His own movie career, which includes appearances in Playing by
Heart (1998), The Faculty (1998) and Big Daddy (1999),
has yet to win him any Oscars. On The Daily Show, Stewart has mocked his
roles in such box-office bombs as 2001’s Death to Smoochy.
November 28, 1997
The final episode of "Beavis and Butt-head"
aired on MTV.
When
Highland High's secretary calls Beavis and Butt-head's home to see why the boys
aren't in school, Beavis falsely claims that he and Butt-head are dead.
Principal McVicker is pleasantly surprised and even stops his typical nervous
shaking. Mr. Van Driessen mourns the loss and tries to get the class to
remember something good about the obnoxious duo, though Daria echoes most of
the class's sentiments by saying "it's not like they had bright futures
ahead of them". The school faculty mostly agree (except Van Driessen) that
although they never liked Beavis and Butt-head, they should exploit their
apparent deaths to make their trouble worthwhile. Beavis and Butt-head see news
that someone died at school, and decide to show up anyway. Just as Principal
McVicker is on camera, holding a jar full of the memorial charity's change
saying he would (hypothetically) trade it to have Beavis and Butt-head back,
they greet him to his shock and end up in possession of the jar. Beavis and
Butt-head walk off into the sunset, believing that they are rich and have no
need to attend school anymore. This episode was the original series finale, up
until the 2011 revival.
November 30, 1927
Robert Guillaume is born Robert Peter Williams.
The stage and television actor, known for his role as Benson on the TV-series Soap and the spin-off Benson, voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King and as Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night. In a career that has spanned more than 50 years he has worked extensively on stage (including a Tony Award nomination), television (including winning two Emmy Awards), and film.December 4, 1937
Max Baer Jr. is born.
Baer was born Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. in Oakland, California, the son of boxing champion Max Baer and his wife Mary Ellen Sullivan. His father was of German, Jewish and Scots-Irish descent. His brother and sister are James Manny Baer (1941–2009) and Maude Baer (b. 1943). His uncle was boxer and actor Buddy Baer.Actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for playing Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies.
Stay Tuned
Tony Figueroa
Stay Tuned
Tony Figueroa
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Your Shop Local Saturday "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY": Mr. Hoopers Egg Cream
Here is your Shop Local Saturday
a little spark of madness
that we could use to momentarily forget about those things that leave a bad taste in our mouths.
Telly and Gordon want a "Mr. Hooper Egg Cream."
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Tony Figueroa
Friday, November 25, 2022
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: The Jack Benny Program - Christmas Shopping
Here is a
"HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"
a little spark of madness
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
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Thursday, November 24, 2022
Your Holiday Sor-Bay: Thanksgiving 2022
This year we are spending Thanksgiving in Cincinnati.
I guess I should watch out for falling Turkeys.
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
This is a little brain candy to snack on while dinner is cooking.
May we all be thankful for what we are about to view...
In 1997 TV Guide ranked this episode number 40 on its '100 Greatest Episodes of All Time' list.
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Hallmark Channel Christmas Promo (James Franco) - SNL
Here is a
"HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"
a little spark of madness
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
Tony Figueroa
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