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Home › Entertainment

Poll | 12/10/2008 12:00 am

Double the trouble, double the laughs! Who was your favorite comedic pair on TV?

Read more about: Comedy, Entertainment, Ethel Merman, Kate and Allie, Laverne and Shirley, Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Television

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Kryssi K
You are missing some very important BRITS, whose sketch comedy never fails to put us Americans to shame! My personal favorite: (Dawn) French and (Jennifer) Saunders …with (Stephen) Fry and (Hugh) Laurie coming in a close second, if we aren’t being gender-exclusive. I hope Lily Tomlin and Kathryn Joosten do more together - they’re the only reason I’ve been able to sit through Desperate Housewives this season…
By Kryssi K on 12/10/2008 12:37 am
joan larsen
Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar in “The Show of Shows” in the 1950s. They were perfect foils for the other - funny on stage but not off - and if you remember them doing pantomine of the the percussion portion in the 1812 Overture you will never forget.
By joan larsen on 12/10/2008 12:41 am
phyllis Doyle Pepe
Yup, thems were who I were thinking bout, Joan. Caesar was a comedic genius, Coca his great foil. How about Gleason and what’s his name? Nichols and Mae? Burnett and Corman? The list goes on.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 12/10/2008 9:13 am
joan larsen
Well, not surprised - as we are often on the same track. Mike and Elaine May — loved them!
By joan larsen on 12/10/2008 3:09 pm
MaryPage Drake
Dang it, Joan! That’s what I was going to say! Well, my second is George Burns and Gracie Allen. So now you are going to tell me they are YOUR second, as well! But weren’t Caesar and Coca the greatest EVER? Yeeeeeeesssssss!
By MaryPage Drake on 12/10/2008 9:19 am
Andy C
That’s who I was going to say: George Burns and Gracie Allen…….they were great.
By Andy C on 12/10/2008 2:23 pm
joan larsen
Mary Page —- I love a smart woman who can play a not smart woman well — that is genuis — so yes, Gracie Allen naturally. I also liked how Grocho Marx raised his eyebrows — and was slightly risque at times —
By joan larsen on 12/10/2008 3:15 pm
Diana T
Joan, the Show of Shows can still make me belly-laugh. Do you remember Ernie Kovacs & Edie Adams?
By Diana T on 12/10/2008 10:00 am
Andy C
and yes, of course, Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams.
By Andy C on 12/10/2008 2:25 pm
Murnah H
Joan, You are absolutely right. They were two comic geniuses together. What a treat to have seen them.
By Murnah H on 12/10/2008 9:38 pm
joan larsen
You actually DIDN’T really see them - or did you? I lived in a family that seemed to have a lot of connections with the stage and screen - and, you know, when you are a kid, you don’t really get it that you are doing anything special when you go and see a radio show-with-audience or a stage show and then go backstage — but we did that I am guessing more than most. And when I look back and realize how many of the long-ago GREATS we saw RIGHT THERE, it was out of this world really!!!! I loved the yesterdays!!!
By joan larsen on 12/11/2008 12:02 am
C A Rose
I love the Brit Com’s! Hyacinth & Richard on ‘Keeping Up Appearances’, for starters. But, Lucy & Ethel have to be the all time comedic duo. CA
By C A Rose on 12/10/2008 12:50 am
Lauriate Roly
Me too,Lily, - I love Hyacinth, and that wonderful husband of hers is so great. Funny thing is, I had an aunt who was so much like dear Hyacinth, and she was a scream; but French. Juliette ! (la duchesse de la rue Berri). Another favourite couple, two Canadians, who received much encouragment and appreciation in the USA thanks to Ed Sullivan They were Wayne and Shuster. Does anyone remember them? Talk about a couple of nuts.
By Lauriate Roly on 12/10/2008 5:23 pm
Diana T
Well, CA, if we’re going to think about the Brits, you can’t beat Jean and “Li” on As Time Goes By.
By Diana T on 12/10/2008 5:16 pm
georgia fatwood
Hi Diana….I’ve just discovered French and Saunders since that HerTube early on wowOwow…what a treat and thank god for YouTube…Speaking o’ YouTube and the Brits…how about Flanders and Swann…..any two of the Monthy Python troupe…any two of the cast of “Beyond the Fringe”……oh and Two Fat Ladies…weren’t they the cooking/motorcycling foodies?
By georgia fatwood on 12/10/2008 10:09 pm
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