Diggin' the Big Bend Tunnel on the C&O Road - in song . . . 
| January 30, 2016 01:34PM |
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dougvv Wrote:
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> The Smother's Brothers were as good as
> an Abbort and Costello team or Stan Laural
> and Oliver Hardy ...
Not quite, Doug -
IMHO, the Smothers Brothers were WAY better than Abbott & Costello, and ALMOST as good as Laurel & Hardy - but they were stand-up comics, not actors in Hal Roach comedies. I do have a vague memory of a 1980's or '90's movie in which Tommy was hilarious as a new-age preacher of some sort being romantically pursued by a nerdy stockbroker who led a San Francisco biker gang on weekends, but I can't remember the name of the film.
On a more railroady and musical note, they also did a routine about John Henry (whom Tommy referred to as 'Henry Hank', IIRC):
'When John Henry was a little baby, sittin' on his daddy's knee
'Daddy picked him up an' put him down on the floor
'Sayin', "Son, don't you pee on me, Lord, Lord, son don't you pee on me" . . . '
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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> The Smother's Brothers were as good as
> an Abbort and Costello team or Stan Laural
> and Oliver Hardy ...
Not quite, Doug -
IMHO, the Smothers Brothers were WAY better than Abbott & Costello, and ALMOST as good as Laurel & Hardy - but they were stand-up comics, not actors in Hal Roach comedies. I do have a vague memory of a 1980's or '90's movie in which Tommy was hilarious as a new-age preacher of some sort being romantically pursued by a nerdy stockbroker who led a San Francisco biker gang on weekends, but I can't remember the name of the film.
On a more railroady and musical note, they also did a routine about John Henry (whom Tommy referred to as 'Henry Hank', IIRC):
'When John Henry was a little baby, sittin' on his daddy's knee
'Daddy picked him up an' put him down on the floor
'Sayin', "Son, don't you pee on me, Lord, Lord, son don't you pee on me" . . . '
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
"Not All Who Have Cell-Phones Do Twitter *
"Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think . . . "
* Only TWITS Twitter!
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