ohh, my condolences to you and yours.
That explains a Narz man sitting next to Brett Somers from Match Game 74 episodes 231-235. Tom Kennedy had been there in earlier episodes.
Do you watch the 1970s Match Game episodes on YouTube? A week or two ago Dick DeBartolo himself (MGâs âblankâ writer, MAD Magazine) appeared on an evening livestream. He even acknowledged me when I told him I heard his guest episode of Gilbert Gottfriedâs Amazing Colossal Podcast. My family found Match Game to be a comfort time capsule these last few months.
Oh yes! I grew up watching them, with my late mom! And when we got GSN, of course we watched the reruns!
And I grew up reading MAD and just about all the Fawcett paperbacks that were and werenât anthologies. Paul Coker, Jr, is still alive, too! And I saw Dick on a TV doco about the show, filmed (I think) just before Gene Rayburn died. Also, found this:
Mad film parodies
Like many of his colleagues, Coker occasionally illustrated film and TV parodies. Based on scripts by Dick DeBartolo he spoofed such movies like âArachnaphobiaâ (issue #301, March 1991), âStar Trek Vâ and âVIâ (issue #83, September 1992), âStar Trek: First Contactâ (issue #352, December 1996) and âJurassic Park 2: The Lost Worldâ (issue #361, September 1997). Together with Stan Hart he lampooned âCasperâ (issue #340, October 1995) and Arnie Kogen wrote the parody of âTwisterâ (issue #349, September 1996).
Mad TV parodies
In the field of television he and DeBartolo tackled the sitcoms âFrasierâ (issue #329, July 1994) and âSabrina: Teenage Witchâ (issue #381, May 1999), while Coker and Josh Gordon ridiculed âCaroline In The Cityâ (issue #345, May 1996).
The last coherent words I remember my mother saying to me was when the paramedics were lifting her up to take her too the ambulance; it was: âWell, the last sense to go is the sense of humor.â After that, I heard her say âspoonâ to her PT, butâŠit was just a response to seeing one.
Iâm glad to read that you and yours have found some comfort in that great humor.
During our âlast call/essentialâ hospital visit I told Tobin he had a celebrity death pool hit with Eddie Van Halen. His response: âGee, how ironic.â My kid had a hit the same week with Whitey Ford, who died the same day Tobin did.
Oh no, not Whitey, too!
Damn:
Man wasnât perfect, but he did demonstrate the value of thoughtful skepticism, versus the knee-jerk conspiracy level junk that tries to call itself skepticism these days.
Damn 2020. You really are trying to wipe out critical thinking.
TCMâs year-end tribute is gonna be long this year; I wonder what music theyâre going to use?
Van Halen, no?
If your election goes wrong, Ride of the Valkyries.
They usually use something very poignant; I donât think their music covers that.
Sci-fi/romance/YA/thriller Roxanne Conrad (aka Rachel Caine) has passed:
What is mourning?