When I was little in the 70's there was a show called HEE HAW that was on Saturday evenings. At the time I couldn't stand it but it was the only thing on TV at that hour so I watched it often. One of my favorite routines they did was the "Pfft you were gone" segment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqnm3A10m8I
We never missed HEE HAW at my house . . . I watched it and tolerated it, but far and away my FAVORITE show growing up was THE CAROL BURNET SHOW . . . I still think it is the best comedy/variety show of all time.
Quote from: indianasmith on September 06, 2008, 09:04:21 PM
We never missed HEE HAW at my house . . . I watched it and tolerated it, but far and away my FAVORITE show growing up was THE CAROL BURNET SHOW . . . I still think it is the best comedy/variety show of all time.
Yep, I liked THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW. Especially Tim Conway and Harvey Korman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEGuVb-mtf0
Another great HEE HAW reoccurring musical skit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK-QIDzTdso&feature=related
My grandmother (the one who believed the moonlandings were a hoax and Amy Carter was severely mentally defective) refused to watch HEE HAW after Lulu Roman got arrested for drug possession.
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/morrisawilliams/heehaw061-x365.jpg)
"Look at that thing! She's on dope!" - My Grandmother
I liked and still like Hee Haw. I dont know why, But I do.When i see a small town population sign, I always think...Sahhhhhlute! when I read it.
-Ed
Here in Michigan,on Saterdays,back in the early seventies, was a local show broadcast from Decauter (Michigan...of course),called GREEN VALLY JAMBOREE with Rem Walt and the Green Vally Boys. Afterwards they played HEE HAW...and after that was an early shoeing of the local (Kalamazoo) SHOCK THEATER. My Dad would watch it every Saterday. I always liked when Skeeter Davis would swat her drunk ol'man while ironing.
My favorite was Grandpa Jones . I liked Junior too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6vZHePxIvc
One my favorite things about Hee Haw is the Hee Haw Honeys. :buggedout:
QuoteMy favorite was Grandpa Jones
Hey Grandpa! What's fer dinner?!? :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Raffine on September 07, 2008, 09:22:18 AM
QuoteMy favorite was Grandpa Jones
Hey Grandpa! What's fer dinner?!? :bouncegiggle:
" Chicken hearts and noodles,pig balls,possum guts,saurkraut soup,goats eyes,and leeches! "
YUUUUUUUM- YUM! :smile:
I used to get a kick out of Charlie Farquharson (AKA Don Harron).
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In Canada, he's also known as a stand-alone comedy act (and can still be booked for functions). I used to have a couple of his albums as a kid.
Some of the regular Hee Haw bits actually make me laugh more now than they did at the time. "Plfllflflt, you was gone" has always been a favourite. The gossip intro was funny too (you'll never hear one of us repeating gossip, so you'd better be sure and listen close the first time). And I used to get a kick out of those short, single-joke sketches with the father and daughter, where the punchline always involved some abuse he's recently inflicted on her boyfriend.
My favorite is the bit that goes
"Gloom, despair, an' agony on me (groan!)
Deep dark depression, excessive misery (groan!)
If it weren't fer bad luck, ah'd have no luck a'tall (groan!)
Gloom, despair, an' a-gun-y ahwn meeee!"
They also did this little song, which I can remember the lyrics to
Gloom, despair, and agony on me,
Deep dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.
I'd look for a youtube of it, but right now I'm at home on dial up.
QuoteI'd look for a youtube of it, but right now I'm at home on dial up.
I posted a clip of that song in my first post in this thread.
Doom, despair, and agony on me :bluesad: <"AUOOOOH!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK-QIDzTdso
HEE HAW BABYLON:
Here in Nashville, the murder of "Stringbean" is still in the headlines:
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080809/NEWS03/808090353/1017/news01
The Porter Wagoner Show was also big at our house:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk2QsIHWIn4&feature=related
I wish Jack Palance's appearance (where he sings "The Green Green Grass of Home" and "Blackjack County Chains"!) was on YouTube.
Hee Haw was required viewing on my house growing up. Grandpa Jones was from my home town and appeared at many of the fairs and parades.
I was in lust with the Hee Haw Honey's.
Quote from: AndyC on September 07, 2008, 02:09:03 PM
I used to get a kick out of Charlie Farquharson (AKA Don Harron).
(http://www.canadiancopywriter.ca/images/donharron.gif)
In Canada, he's also known as a stand-alone comedy act (and can still be booked for functions). I used to have a couple of his albums as a kid.
Some of the regular Hee Haw bits actually make me laugh more now than they did at the time. "Plfllflflt, you was gone" has always been a favourite. The gossip intro was funny too (you'll never hear one of us repeating gossip, so you'd better be sure and listen close the first time). And I used to get a kick out of those short, single-joke sketches with the father and daughter, where the punchline always involved some abuse he's recently inflicted on her boyfriend.
Ozzymandias speaks: Don Harron was on the Man from U.N.C.L.E as a character named Kitt Kitridge. He was killed in an early episode but returned later.
I also have the pilot episode and you can see how they copied "Laugh-In", complete with the early music video stuff. I would love to have a CD of the Hager Twins doing "Gamblin Man."
Ozzymandias has spoken!!!
Harron made the rounds of a few classic shows from the 50s to the 70s. I'm actually kind of surprised he didn't become more famous outside of Canada, like some other alumni of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Here he is doing Taming of the Shrew with Shatner in 1954.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3141/2844906271_51845789a4.jpg?v=0)
Harron's still performing and making the odd TV appearance, but at 84 years old, the last thing I saw him in was a commercial for funeral insurance.
Quote from: Raffine on September 07, 2008, 09:22:18 AM
Hey Grandpa! What's fer dinner?!? :bouncegiggle:
The Hee Haw Honeys :twirl:
Hee Haw Honeys....with Mr. Gary Muledeer.
(http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee71/HammockRider/heehawhoneys.jpg)
WHERE OH WHERE ARE YOU TONIGHT? or MINNIE PEARL HER HAT TAG as a price tag $1:98 or CALL BR-549 and that hapless hen sitting on something that wasnt alway a egg