Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is until recently. At present, one of the few comedians who doesn't have to steal Morgan's jokes is allegedly paying for them. The Henry Morgan show, a half hour of sporadic Sunday night drollery is sponsored by the Fred Allen show, another half hour of the same sort of thing. The combined shows run from eight to nine...
...more pleasant things about Morgan is that he is unlike other radio comedians who seem to aim their programs at the category Life forgot--the no-brows. He eschews the Wilshire Boulevard school of humor, where in an ether buffoon sends a studio audience into unrestrained hysterics at the mere mention of a name such as "Wilshire Boulevard" of "La Brea tarpits." Nor does he open closet doors to the accompanyment of a eacophony of sound effects. If he is going to insult somebody he doesn't call him "baldy...
...When Morgan wants to make fun of Judge Anthony or Gabriel Heatter or Luella Parsons, the Messrs, Anthony and Heatter and Miss Parsons hurt for a long time thereaftr. Once you hear Morgan spoof scientific experts you are pretty shame-faced the next time you take a Reader's Digest cure for acne seriously...
With the help of the best straight man in radio, Arnold Stang, Morgan manages to parlay his destructive parodies into an average of ten really excellent minutes of humor and twenty satisfactory ones every Sunday night...
Freshmen--stroke, Flagg; 7, Watkins; 6, House; 5, Morgan; 4, Benson; 3, Holden; 2, Beggs; bow, Mitchell; cox, Gordon...