Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, offers some of the most intelligent interviews, reviews, and commentary heard on radio. In this special compilation, you'll hear exhilarating excerpts from classic interviews with 21 stars of comedy, including Tracey Ullman, Chris Rock, Carol Leifer, Henny Youngman, Richard Pryor, Drew Carey, Bob Newhart, Jackie Mason, Phyllis Diller, and more!
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Originally aired on Black Starz, the third part of this 3-part series presents an intriguing and entertaining view of the underground Black film industry of the 20's, 30's and 40's. That's Black Entertainment: Comedians features Boarding House Blues (90 min.), starring Moms Mabley and Dusty Fletcher. It is classic 40's Black vaudeville, music and comedy routines as a group of people put on a show to save their Harlem boarding house.
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Television in the Fifties just wouldn't have been the "Golden Age" without Sid Caesar. Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour brought classic comedy to the homes of millions of views, with guest stars Nanette Fabray, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. Eight of the most memorable live sketches from Sid's shows make up this priceless collection, as performed, without cue cards or second takes
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Stranger Than Fact: Special "News" Stories Aired on April 1st! CD
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A dozen films from the mind and directorial baton of the Little Tramp himself-Charlie Chaplin--have been restored from surviving 35-mm archives. Featured films in this 90th anniversary collection include many audience favorites: The Floorwalker, The Fireman, The Vagabond, The Pawn Shop, and Immigrant. Plus One A. M., The Count, Behind the Screen, The Rink, East Street, The Cure, and The Adventurer.
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There's one in every family - a "black sheep" - and for the Robinsons, it's the youngest son, Ed. Divorced after five months, hates his job, 32, lives in his aunt's house in Bermondsey. What's a run-of-the-mill, middle-class-comfortable family from Wimbledon to do? Tune in to the hit British comedy and find out, with stars Hugh Bonneville, Amanda Root, and Anna Massey. "Quietly quirky," writes Hollywood Reporter
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Before Leno and Carson, Sid ruled the comedy airwaves with Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. Travel back to TV's Golden Age for hours of sidesplitting antics in 18 of his most outrageous sketches, all digitally restored. DVD extras: bonus sketches, interviews with Sid's writers, and Sid's 1999 Friar's Club Roast.
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Where did such household names as comedians Mike Myers, Tim Meadows, and Andy Dick get their starts? On the stage at Chicago's i.O. Theater, the hotbed of ";improv" comedy--which has launched careers for cast members and writers of such popular TV shows as Saturday Night Live, MADtv, and The Daily Show. This 25-year gala tribute features i.O. alumni Rachel Dratch, Ike Barinholtz, Horatio Sanz, Mo Collins, and many more.
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A wide-ranging collection of 25 rare and nostalgic episodes of early TV sit-coms that include The People's Choice, The Beulah Show, The Jack Benny Show and many more!
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Six hilariously naughty hours of bad boy comedian George Carlin are compiled on this collector's celebration of one of America's most cutting-edge comedians. More live performances than one can count are included, filmed all over America between 1977 and 1990.
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While silent-film star Charlie Chaplin may have charmed American audiences with the onscreen antics of his loveable "Tramp" character, the actor's private life was marred by a series of public scandals that eventually pushed him into exile.
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He was one of the 20th century's most beloved entertainers, from early radio and film days to television and live performances before U.S. troops around the world. The late Bob Hope's memorable jokes and routines are revived in this landmark collection, featuring the best of "G.I. Bob:" his long-running NBC specials, Christmas Shows, two short films from the 1930s, and his very first radio broadcast in 1935.
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Ten classic episodes from the funniest comedy variety show of the Fifties and Sixties feature Red Skelton's cavalcade of klutzy, goofy characters: Freddie the Freeloader, Clem Kadiddlehopper, San Fernando Red, and seagulls Gertrude and Heathcliffe. Red's guests include Don Knotts, Amanda Blake, Jayne Meadows, Cesar Romero, and Garry Moore. It's family entertainment at its very best.
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Turn the family room clock back to yesteryear, when America's favorite weeknight TV staples were primetime situation comedies, variety shows, detective shows, and game shows. Groucho Marx, Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, Sid Caesar, and Jack Benny ruled the black and white airwaves. This collection of Golden Age shows, arranged when possible on the nights they actually aired in the 1950s, will give viewers hours of nostalgic pleasure.
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This rollicking version of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular tale relocates the action from ancient Japan to a 1920s English seaside resort. Here the rule of the Mikado is absolute--and often prone to whimsy. The irrepressible Eric Idle (Monty Python's Flying Circus), in his opera debut, teams up with the English National Opera in this hilarious performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved comic opera, THE MIKADO.
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Through a treasure trove of rare clips and never-before-seen interviews, television's first superstars, including Bop Hope, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Sid Caesar and Red Skelton, among others, recount their grueling careers on the vaudeville stage, their transition to radio and finally their move to the small screen. Discover how the comedic geniuses who used laughter to launch a new medium, becoming television's pioneers.
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Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python created these hilarious spoofs of Edwardian adventure stories. The renowned BBC series stars Palin in nine surreal comedies, with settings ranging from Victorian London to World War I Germany, Peru, and India during the Raj. From "Tomkinson's Schooldays" to "Whinfrey's Last Case," no loony stone is left unturned.
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Imagine zanier characters than Freddie the Freeloader, Clem Kadiddlehopper, and Junior, the Mean Widdle Kid. Give up? That's why Red Skelton was America's Clown Prince. More than a dozen of his best TV performances, featuring guests Jane Russell, Vivian Vance, and Don Knotts, are assembled here. Bonus: Red's "Pledge of Allegiance."
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Ralph Edwards created and hosted this heartwarming TV series, honoring uncommon people with extraordinary stories from all walks of life. Eighteen re-mastered segments here feature tributes-filled with laughter, tears, and surprise visitors-to Bette Davis, Jayne Mansfield, Jesse Owens, Roy Rogers, and Holocaust survivor Hanna Bloch Kohner.
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The Definitive collection featuring over seven hours of the best moments and most memorable guest from three decades of The Tonight Show personally selected by The King of Late Night, Johnny Carson. Plus Johnny's Animal Hijinks.
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Quick, what do Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business, Animal Crackers, and The Cocoanuts have in common? If you said movies with the Marx Brothers-Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo-you'd be right, but why these 5? The legendary comedy troupe made many more, but not all the brothers appeared. This 75th anniversary collection features the only 5 films made starring all 4 Marx brothers. So go ahead, laugh yourself silly-in full-family style!
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In syndication for four decades since it left the air, You Bet Your Life has been seen and loved, again and again, by millions. But a few early episodes from the wacky game show- never repackaged by NBC, for various reasons- have not aired since their first broadcasts. Found at UCLA and the Library of Congress, these 18 episodes were produced from original film reels.
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For 14 years, Groucho Marx hosted television's most unconventional, offbeat quiz show. Where else would you find contestants willing to do almost anything- from blowing up inner tubes to spending 25 minutes figuring out Groucho's new "secret" word-or enduring his patented wisecrack interviews? 18 of the show's best episodes of the 1950s and 1960s make up this special collection, complete with out-takes and a rare Marx Brothers commercial.
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The late Rodney Dangerfield lives on in this collection of his classic television specials. Dangerfield was a comic genius with impeccable timing and a unique brand of stand-up humor. Guest stars in Dangerfield's clips include Bill Murray, Aretha Franklin, Roseanne Barr, Jerry Seinfeld, Andrew Dice Clay, Morgan Fairchild, Harvey Korman, and many more. He may be gone, but this is your chance to give Rodney Dangerfield the respect he deserves.
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No one epitomized America's patriotic fervor more than everyone's favorite wisecracker, Bob Hope- and no one spent more time entertaining U.S. troops overseas, from 1941 until the end of the century. His WWII weekly radio shows were performed before G.I. audiences, and for years, comedian Hope and his wife even spent Christmas with troops. This collection of Vietnam-era appearances, from 1964 to 1972, were the highlight of Hope's long career.
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For the world's best comedians, the perfect joke requires fearlessness, wit, and a willingness to share the darkest parts of their own lives. Legendary comedian Alan King hosts this intensely revealing series on the serious business of being funny. In skillful one-on-one interviews with comic legends, experience the mania, the perfect timing, the edgy satire, the cutting-edge zingers and the lovable lunacy of the lives behind the laughter.
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Sid Caesar kept America laughing in the 1950s with his award-winning Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. This collection includes 19 of his rarest rib-tickling TV sketches, digitally restored for modern viewers, and featuring his most popular characters, the Professor and Progress Hornsby.
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Twenty-five years after his first cameo appearance on a variety show, Canadian cult star Red Green (Steve Smith) and his gang of curious characters take a lopsided look back at the history of Possum Lodge. How did it all go so horribly wrong? Intimate interviews with Red and his sidekicks are interspersed with photos and video clips of the long-running show's most memorable moments.
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The irrepressible antics of comedian Red Skelton continue to tickle America's funnybone, decades after his television variety show ended. This collection offers 15 rib-tickling episodes from the small screen, reviving such lovable looney characters as Clem Kadiddlehopper, Freddie the Freeloader, and Junior the Mean Widdle Kid. Try not to laugh yourself silly at Deadeye and the Gunslinger, Freddie and the Baby, Fancy Footwork, or Marooned
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The laughter continues in this second volume including 7 Chaplin classics: The Chaplin Revue, The Circus, City Lights, The Kid, Monsieur Verdoux, A King for New York, and A Woman of Paris. Loaded with special features including vintage home movies, deleted scenes, and Richard Schickel's acclaimed documentary; Chaplin: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin which includes interviews with Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, and Robert Downey.
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