If the loathsome Gilbert Gottfried had been around in '29 ...

[Undertow]

Please let me submit the following for your ear-bleeding pleasure. Again with Sammy Petrillo...


[video=youtube_share;OrRtIp3jylk]http://youtu.be/OrRtIp3jylk[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Bela Lugosi must have needed the money! :doh:

 

[Travis Lee Johnston]

I had That^ on dvd til I recently donated it. Not the greatest flick.

Bela's drug habit wasn't going to pay for itself.

 

[Feraud]

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(Warning: it's really, really grating ... like ruby red fingernails on a vintage slate chalkboard.)

That wasn't so bad, I thought we'd hear something really awful like Shakira got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Please let me submit the following for your ear-bleeding pleasure. Again with Sammy Petrillo...


[video=youtube_share;OrRtIp3jylk]http://youtu.be/OrRtIp3jylk[/video]

I thought for a minute that was Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. So did these two steal their act or what?

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Yeah, but Gilbert doesn't really talk like that. Like Larry The Cable Guy(Daniel Whitney) doesn't talk like he talks on camera.

Yeah, it's just Gilbert's schtick. The over the top obnoxious guy act. I always liked Gilbert's stand up stuff.

 

[skyvue]

I thought for a minute that was Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. So did these two steal their act or what?

Yes, they stole their act, and shamelessly so.

Believe it or not, I have an autographed photo of Sammy Petrillo.

 

[scottyrocks]

Meh. Loathsome, but I still like him. I sometimes deeply wish that I could make some of the noises he makes. I see him from time to time on New York's streets. Strange little man.
"Afflack!!!"

I was gonna say he makes a good duck.

 

[Undertow]

I thought for a minute that was Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. So did these two steal their act or what?

As Skyvue mentioned, yes they did, which is what makes it EVEN MORE deplorable. I have that movie on DVD and I bring it out every once in a while to chase away guests.

 

[Fletch]

I was gonna say [Gottfried] makes a good duck.

He's also the dog that doesn't know chemically flavored cardboard dog treats from bacon. But I particularly prize him on Comedy Central's comic roast shows. There is something truly arresting about using that autism-spectrum mama's-boy whine to deliver pure smut.

The Whiny New Yorker Voice is probably a constant in American humor and will be as long as loud and urban connote funny.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

... as long as loud and urban connote funny.

Not too much longer, I hope.

 

[Fletch]

Well, in comedy as in pop song writing, New York cornered most of the distribution channels and efficiently supplied the nation. Part of that efficiency was to develop local talent, whose style heavily influenced the national tastes.

Thus was born Culture Industry Beta, before scientific marketing got hold of it.

 

[ButteMT61]

He's good at voices. But he no longer does Aflac duck: See This bit...

 

[Marc Chevalier]

(And I'll take them any day of the week over any of the overblown banshees that rank as pop stars today.)

Fair enough. And Britney Spears can't do this in a million years:



[video=youtube;p_kaOYC_Fww]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kaOYC_Fww[/video]

 

[MissMittens]

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(Warning: it's really, really grating ... like ruby red fingernails on a vintage slate chalkboard.)

I'd take ruby red nails just about anywhere...................except a chalkboard! :lol: :lol:

G.G.....can't stand him anywhere :rofl: :lol:

 

[Marc Chevalier]

G.G.....can't stand him anywhere :rofl: :lol:

Anna Netrebko, above, is the antidote.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

George Olsen and his Music -- Mona (1929)
vocal by Fran Frey
Mona as it was meant to be heard

[video=youtube;8gk_AyNtEsQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gk_AyNtEsQ[/video]