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...December 1953, has dropped to thirteenth. The other four falterers (Bob Hope, Colgate Comedy Hour, Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Godfrey and His Friends} have plummeted further-they are no longer to be found even in the top 20 shows. The season's best new comic, George Gobel, has climbed to No. 17 and seems headed for the Top Ten before the year...
...George Gobel Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). With Charles Coburn...
...dissolve"), he got started in radio as a singer and guitarist on barn dance shows and managed to keep busy as a vocalist at weddings and bazaars. He even had some acting jobs on radio, but they were only bit parts. On the Tom Mix Show, for instance, Gobel was always the boy who said plaintively, "I'll hold your horse...
During World War II, Flight Instructor Gobel spent much of his spare time working out comedy routines, later found work delivering sober-faced, simple monologues in Chicago nightclubs. Then he made some of the better-known TV shows (Ed Sullivan, Hoagy Carmichael) as a guest comic. He was the big splash last month on David 0. Selznick's four-network TV show Diamond Jubilee of Light (TIME, Nov. 8), delivering a deadpan talk on electronic brains that probably set science back three centuries...
Lack of Format. Last year NBC signed him, but spent months trying to work out a proper format for his peculiar, shapeless brand of comedy. It was a tough job, since no one, including Gobel, could pin down his style. "I don't think it's like anybody else's," he says. "I didn't think about it until other people started describing it. They described it in so many ways, I get kind of mixed up. I guess it's offbeat, casual. I get a line I figure will be funny...