Classic Television Showbiz

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http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2014/09/showbiz-imagery-and-chicanery.html

KLIPH NESTEROFF: YOU WERE RUNNING JAM SESSIONS AROUND LOS ANGELES IN THE LATE 1940S, BOOKING JAZZ MUSICIANS AT CLUBS LIKE THE RED FEATHER, THE SUSIE Q AND THE MELODY ROOM... THE MELODY ROOM WA...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2014/11/an-interview-with-maynard-sloate-part.html

JACK BLANCHARD: WE WORKED WITH A LOT OF COMEDIANS OVER THE YEARS. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A COMEDY FAN. WHEN I HAD MY GROUP THE DAWN BREAKERS WE WORKED A LOT OF PLACES THAT HAD COMEDIAN-EMCEES. I ...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2020/08/an-interview-with-jack-blanchard-part_16.html

KLIPH NESTEROFF: WHO WAS RUSTY DIAMOND? Jack Blanchard: He was a guy from Salt Lake City. His real name was Jasper Leroy Barr. He had a mean talent for getting rich girls to back his record...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2020/08/an-interview-with-jack-blanchard-part_9.html

KLIPH NESTEROFF: YOU PRODUCED A RECORD FOR A GUY NAMED KING HOUSTON ON THE CINCINNATI BASED KING RECORDS, ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT LABEL IN RHYTHM AND BLUES HISTORY. IT WAS AN IMPORTANT C...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2020/08/an-interview-with-jack-blanchard-part.html

JACK BLANCHARD: I WAS WORKING IN FACTORIES AND I WANTED TO GET OUT OF THERE REALLY, REALLY BAD. THERE WERE A BUNCH OF GUYS FROM THE FACTORY WHO GOT TOGETHER AND SANG EVERY WEDNESDAY OR THURS...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2020/08/an-interview-with-jack-blanchard-part_5.html

KLIPH NESTEROFF: YOU WERE CLOSE FRIENDS WITH DAVE MADDEN. PEOPLE KNOW HIM FROM LAUGH-IN AND THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY, BUT NOT HIS STAND-UP CAREER. JACKIE CURTISS: YES, THAT'S HOW HE GOT STARTED....

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2020/06/an-interview-with-jackie-curtiss-part.html

KLIPH NESTEROFF: YOU ACTED WITH ORSON WELLES IN THE UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL WESTERN MAN IN THE SHADOW. IT WAS DIRECTED BY JACK ARNOLD. I AM SLIGHTLY OBSESSED BECAUSE I LIVE IN JACK ARNOLD'S ...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2020/06/an-interview-with-william-schallert.html

SAUL ILLSON: SAMMY DAVIS JR. GOT STANDING OVATIONS BECAUSE HE OVERWHELMED YOU. HE CAME OUT AND JUST TOOK OVER. HE DID EVERYTHING AND THE AUDIENCE WAS JUST OVERWHELMED. BUT ACTUALLY, SAMMY WASN...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2020/06/an-interview-with-saul-illson-part-two.html

KLIPH NESTEROFF: SEPTEMBER 1968 - YOU STARTED WRITING FOR THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL SPECIALS. THE FIRST ONE STARRED ALAN KING WITH GUESTS DON RICKLES AND SUGAR RAY ROBINSON. SAM BOBRICK: THEY HI...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2020/06/an-interview-with-sam-bobrick-part-two.html

Kliph Nesteroff: You wrote for every star from Bing Crosby to Jack Benny, Dean Martin to the Smothers Brothers, but your earliest credits were at CBC Television in Canada. Saul Illson: Yes,...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2020/06/an-interview-with-saul-illson-part-one.html

RON FRIEDMAN: I WROTE FOR TIMMIE ROGERS. I WORKED WITH A LOT OF BLACK COMICS AND SINGERS WHO DID THE CHITLIN CIRCUIT. TIMMIE ROGERS WAS AN ABSOLUTELY LOVELY GUY. I WAS JUST BEGINNING IN THE ...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2020/05/an-interview-with-ron-friedman.html

KLIPH NESTEROFF: YOU APPEARED ON THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW HIGH ON MESCALINE. THE EPISODE ALSO FEATURED COMEDIAN JACKIE VERNON. PAUL KRASSNER: OH, YES. I HAD VERY LONG HAIR. OTTO PREMINGER WAS A...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2019/07/an-interview-with-paul-krassner-part_22.html

KLIPH NESTEROFF: YOU ONCE APPEARED ON THE TONIGHT SHOW WHILE YOU WERE HIGH ON LSD. ORSON BEAN WAS THE GUEST HOST. PAUL KRASSNER: THAT WAS JUST MY THING. I HAD PSYCHEDELIC MACHO. I TESTIFIED...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2019/07/an-interview-with-paul-krassner-part-six.html

KLIPH NESTEROFF: APRIL 1964 - GEORGE FOSTER AND BOB BOOKER, THE GUYS WHO PRODUCED THE FIRST FAMILY COMEDY RECORD WITH VAUGHN MEADER, WERE GOING TO MAKE A MOVIE STARRING PETER SELLERS. IT WAS C...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2019/07/an-interview-with-paul-krassner-part.html

SAUL TURTELTAUB: I HAD MET SHARI LEWIS AT A SUMMER CAMP WHEN I WAS FIFTEEN. AROUND TEN YEARS LATER, WHEN I GOT OUT OF THE ARMY, I WAS WRITING FOR NIGHTCLUB COMICS. I TURNED ON THE TELEVISION...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2018/11/an-interview-with-saul-turteltaub.html

WILLIAM SCHALLERT: IT WAS AROUND 1950 WHEN I WAS SENT TO MGM ALONG WITH A BUNCH OF OTHER ACTORS. LEONARD MURPHY WAS THE GUY IN CASTING. I’D WORKED FOR MGM IN A COUPLE OF MINOR PARTS, REAL ...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2018/10/an-interview-with-william-schallert.html

KLIPH NESTEROFF: YOU WROTE AN ALBUM THAT I HAVE OWNED FOR YEARS CALLED MAD TWISTS ROCK N' ROLL. SAM BOBRICK: OH, MAD, YEAH. WE DID TWO OF THEM. MAD TWISTS ROCK N' ROLL AND FINK ALONG WITH MA...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2018/09/an-interview-with-sam-bobrick-part-one.html

KLIPH NESTEROFF: I TOLD A FRIEND THAT I WAS GOING TO BE TALKING TO YOU TODAY AND HE MENTIONED HE HAS A COLLECTION OF YOUR MOTHER’S RADIO PROGRAM - THE ELZA SCHALLERT SHOW - EPISODES FROM ...

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2018/05/an-interview-with-william-schallert-his.html

Kliph Nesteroff Presents "a portal into a previously unseen world" - The Guardian "Invaluable" - The Onion AV Club "Important" - John Hodgman, The Daily Show

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-tomorrow-show-with-tom-snyder-with.html

Very rare Tonight Show footage from the late 1960s.

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-tonight-show-with-guest-dr-frank.html

Kliph Nesteroff Presents "a portal into a previously unseen world" - The Guardian "Invaluable" - The Onion AV Club "Important" - John Hodgman, The Daily Show

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-tonight-show-with-or-without-jack.html

Kliph Nesteroff Presents "a portal into a previously unseen world" - The Guardian "Invaluable" - The Onion AV Club "Important" - John Hodgman, The Daily Show

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2017/12/roll-out-christmas-episode-1974.html

Kliph Nesteroff Presents "a portal into a previously unseen world" - The Guardian "Invaluable" - The Onion AV Club "Important" - John Hodgman, The Daily Show

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2017/10/abc-comedy-news-starring-fannie-flagg.html

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2017/07/this-is-cnn.html