Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturdays Private Gene Johnson of the Mountaineers put on a "whoop-de-do" that jammed the noisy little station to the doors. Mountaineers generally ran to hoedowns, Regulars to sentimental cowboy tunes, Alabamans did takeoffs on hairtonic commercials, Gophers stuck to band music. In March Funnyman Joe Brown blew into camp, gave two and three shows...
Vaudeville's veteran Funnyman Pat Rooney II, 62, got a license to marry blonde Actress Janet Reade, onetime member of Eddie Cantor's Whoopee, one time wife of Funnyman Pat's son, Pat Rooney III. Said Pat Rooney II of Pat Rooney III: "I haven't seen him for some years." Said Actress Janet Reade: "I haven't seen him either. Anyway I like his father better. He's a funny little guy but I love...
Performers on Your Blind Date include a perky songstress, Connie Haines, a funnyman, "Tizzie Lish," a band, the Melodates, recruited from John Scott Trotter's Orchestra, guest comediennes and starlets from the studios. Music and patter are not all. To one lucky mother each week, Mistress of Ceremonies Scully gives a chance to read her own letter to her own son. Distant sons can hear the program by short wave from San Francisco's KGEI. This part of the show is one big reason the soldiers like...
...opened until autumn. Next season, Sponsor General Foods confessed, Benny will plug some other General Foods product, not the Jell-O with which he shares his present fame. Reason: JellO, being 60% sugar, may not be made nor sold in sufficient quantities to warrant the expensive exertions of Funnyman Benny, whose new two-year contract calls for a salary of $22,000 a week for 35 weeks-highest pay in radio. General Foods last week meditated giving Jell-O to Kate Smith, shunting Grape-Nuts Products to Benny. Benny was elaborately unconcerned. In an unprecedented deal last year he persuaded...
...County Derry Irishman named William Connor, who writes for the London Daily Mirror under the pseudonym "Cassandra," sharpened his Celtic fangs last fortnight, grabbed a BBC mike, and proceeded to chew up Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, who now broadcasts out of Berlin for Goebbels & Co. (TIME, July 7, 14). Strange stuff for staid old BBC were his scarifying comments...