[78-L] Mr. Magoo

[David Lennick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESE0RGxpqf8

Never heard this one before!

As for Magoo, the music by Dennis Farnon is funnier than the sketch, and it's 
not top drawer either. CJBC in Toronto used a couple of portions of it as the 
opening and closing for their daily dose of Bob and Ray. (I did the same years 
later on a daily comedy bit on another station.)

dl

On 10/28/2013 6:34 PM, David Breneman wrote:
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>    From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>> An album that's nowhere near as funny as you wish it would be, as I recall.
>> Like the Bob and Ray Stereo Spectacular, or Lord Buckley's Hipsters
>> Flipsters,
>> or Allan Sherman's Peter. RCA's sense of humor was sometimes very hard
>> to
>> detect. (Defend 'em all you want, but I have never laughed at any of those
>> albums.)
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> Re Magoo in Hi-Fi -
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> I have a very nice copy of it, which I bought because I always thought I
> loved *everything* Jim Backus did (with the exception of Gilligan's Island).
> It's pretty unimaginative stuff.  Magoo is building a Hi-Fi.  He reads
> that he needs woofers and tweeters, so naturally he goes out and gets some
> dogs and birds.  The jokes go down hill from there.  All this inanity is
> commented upon by his doofy nephew Waldo - and that's insipid doofiness,
> not comic doofiness.
>
> Re "Why Don't You go Home for Christmas" -
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> It's a monologue by Backus, delivered to his apparently shrewish wife,
> emploring her to go spend Christmas with her parents "So *I* can have a
> Happy New Year."  ("If you had any class, you would go by bus.") You
> can almost imagine him in a smoking jacket, hoisting a martini and leaning
> against a console stereo, as he begins "Every year, about this time, Old
> Jingle-Bells-Ville..."  Much more humor in three minutes than the whole
> Magoo LP.
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