Ed Wynn, Scary Rabbit Masks, Tuxedos, & A Violin

[JSngry]

I love me some Ed Wynn.

[JSngry]

No love for Ed Wynn, Scary Rabbit Masks, Tuxedos, or Violins?

Sad if not. Ed Wynn was funny!

[JSngry]

Who's not love the Ed Wynn? Especially with the giant smoking head in front of the little conductor man down in front, to say nothing of the Helen forrest AND The Trhee stooges.

Live TV! Limited Technology! Old School jokes! Good ones!

"You know what an executive is to me?" HA!

[Chuck Nessa]

I have fond memories of Ed Wynn but these clips give me pause.

[JSngry]

Well, yeah, that's what I mean, this stuff was weird as hell in all kinds of ways, and it just came into your house, burnt itself into your brains, then off to bed and the next day, hey, up and at em!

[Scott Dolan]

Splicers!!!!!

[paul secor]

I remember Ed Wynn from when I was a kid. Never took to him much then. I enjoyed the What's My Line? clip, but his own show seemed to embody the corniest side of vaudeville. I like old jokes, but they have to be good ones. I guess mmv.

[JSngry]

Yeah, corny (or worse) at times, but I find his pitch, timing, and reflection damn near perfect, on violin, physically, in speech. Skills. The material is secondary for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd-tiyxISig

[paul secor]

Just a Wikipedia bio - with all of the limitations that entails - but it appears that he had and interesting career and life, and made a brave career change late in his life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Wynn

[JSngry]

I dug how he started his own network. It's like he was the Mingus or Charles Tolliver of Old-Time Radio.

And ever better is why it failed - he lef for Hollywood and left the roll out to his partner, who ended up being some kind of altruistic artist-purist or some such. No business sense at all.

You think of Ed Wynn, you don't think of all that, but there it was, along with what you do think about.

[Chuck Nessa]

Now on to Fred Allen!