Word: freberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week's show was another melange, at once funnier and tamer than the first. Freberg's interview with an Abominable Snowman ("I'm 10½ ft. tall, but you should see my brother! He jumped center for Abominable State") had a deadpan quality equal to the best of Bob and Ray; he slipped a little in a talk with a sculptress, recovered nicely in a blackout skit about a maniacal phonecaller. The only item in the show that might have disturbed the most timid network vice president was a one-minute "Behind History" skit about Barbara...
...first sketch was a pleasant conceit about a hot block of "tuned sheep," whose neck bells rendered a spirited version of Lullaby of Birdland. The second, "Incident at Los Veroces," was a live sermon about the self-destruction "of a thoroughly evil city" that is as revealing of Freberg's Baptist upbringing as of his zany imagination...
Fred Allen, Henry Morgan, Bob and Ray -or a lesser-known funnyman named Stan Freberg...
Though braver than TV, radio still intends to stay friends with convention. In putting on last week's opening Stan Freberg Show (Sun. 7:30-8 p.m., CBS Radio), network executives eased their hypertension by scissoring out topical references to the Gaza Strip (it might offend Arabs and Zionists) and a simulated H-bomb explosion over a fictionalized Las Vegas (it might offend the State Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, the governor of Nevada, or somebody's aunt in Iowa). "Now I know what killed Fred Allen!" Stan Freberg cried, and complained of "panicky network people and panicky...
...Quest for Bridey Hammerschlaugen (Stan Freberg; Capitol). A parody of the well-publicized hypnotic journey into previous incarnations to search for Bridey Murphy. This Bridey declares she lives outside Rome in 200 A.D., and is an usherette at the Colosseum. And she has a hot tip: put a bundle on Ben Hur in the fifth...