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Biffle & Shooster performing live at the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena, CA on Sunday 7/28

Posted on July 22, 2019 by admin

View this post on Instagram Hey, Everybody! This Sunday, America’s Favorite Fake 1930s Comedy Team returns to the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena with their semi-hilarious assemblage of songs and gags, joined by some special guests (not me, … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Film Stars, Next Show, Podcasts, Radio Stations, Television Star | Tagged A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Abbott and Costello, Adventures in Odyssey, Andrew Parks, Biffle and Shooster, Biffle and Shooster Murder Case, Bride of Finkelstein, Bride of Finklestein, Broadway, comedy shorts, Dick Miller, Don Mitchell, Duke and Me, Franklin Pangborn, G.I. Joe, Golden Age of Television, Grease, H.M. Wynant, Imitation of Wife, It's a Frame Up, Kino Lorber, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Lou Costello, Me and Duke, Mel Brooks, Michael Schlesinger, Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster, Mutt, Nick Santa Maria, Pseudolus, Raymond Burr, Real Men Sing Show Tunes, Rescue 8, Robert Forster, Robert Ironside, Robert Picardo, Sam Weinberg, Schmo Boat, Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know, The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster, The Biffle Murder Case, The Little Mermaid, The Odd Couple, The Producers, Three Stooges, Will Ryan | Leave a comment

via Comedy Hall of Fame: Premiering tonight on WNET Channel 13 in New York: SID CAESAR: ON THE LANGUAGE OF COMEDY, a new documentary featuring intimate, never-before-seen interviews with Caesar from the archives of the Comedy Hall of Fame. SID CAESAR: ON THE LANGUAGE OF COMEDY will also become available for viewing on demand on PBS Passport beginning Monday 7/22

Posted on July 15, 2019 by admin

New York, NY — For more than 50 years, public television has provided unsurpassed access to the performing arts, including the very best of theater, dance, opera, classical, jazz, popular music, and comedy. Now, New York metro-area public television station … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Film Stars, Podcasts, Radio Stations, Television Star | Tagged 20th century comedic television, Admiral Broadway Revue, Billy Crystal, Broadway, Caesar’s Hour, Calvin Trillin, Carl Reiner, comedic variety programming, Comedy Hall of Fame, comic trailblazer, Golden Age of Television, Imogene Coca, Jack Benny, Larry Gelbart, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Mel Brooks, Milton Berle, My Favorite Year, Nanette Fabray, NASCAR, Neil Simon, Paley Center, Saturday Night Live, Shout! Factory, Sid Caesar, Sid Caesar: Extra Portion, SID CAESAR: ON THE LANGUAGE OF COMEDY, Sid Caesar: The Works, Sid's groundbreaking series, social satirist, Studs Terkel, superstar comedian, Ten from Your Show of Shows, The Chevy Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Woody Allen, Your Show of Shows | Leave a comment

Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 443, Segment 2 with guests Will Ryan, Nick Santa Maria and Michael Schlesinger is now available online for listening on demand

Posted on March 25, 2019 by admin

Show No. 443, Segment 2 with guests Will Ryan, Nick Santa Maria and Michael Schlesinger Original Airdates: Mar. 22-24, 2019 Ed and Greg Ehrbar welcome actors Will Ryan and Nick Santa Maria and writer, producer and director Michael Schlesinger (The … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Film Stars, Podcasts, Radio Stations, Television Star | Tagged A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Abbott and Costello, Adventures in Odyssey, Aladdin, Aladdin Musical Spectacular, Andrew Parks, Biffle and Shooster, Biffle and Shooster Murder Case, Bride of Finkelstein, Bride of Finklestein, Broadway, comedy shorts, Dick Miller, Disney Adventure Theme Park, Disneyland Records, Don Mitchell, Duke and Me, Franklin Pangborn, G.I. Joe, Golden Age of Television, Grease, H.M. Wynant, Imitation of Wife, It's a Frame Up, Kino Lorber, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Lou Costello, Me and Duke, Mel Brooks, Michael Schlesinger, Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster, Mutt, Nick Santa Maria, Pseudolus, Raymond Burr, Real Men Sing Show Tunes, Rescue 8, Robert Forster, Robert Ironside, Robert Picardo, Sam Weinberg, Schmo Boat, Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know, The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster, The Biffle Murder Case, The Little Mermaid, The Odd Couple, The Producers, Three Stooges, Will Ryan, Willio Phillio | Leave a comment

Attention Southern California listeners: Will Ryan and Nick Santa Maria will perform live on Sunday 3/31 at the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena. It’s the Benny Biffle Birthday Bash… don’t miss it!

Posted on March 20, 2019 by admin

Will Ryan and Nick Santa Maria will perform live as Biffle and Shooster at the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena, CA on Sunday, March 31 beginning at 7pm. It’s the Benny Biffle Birthday Bash, and you won’t want to miss … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Film Stars, Next Show, Radio Stations, Television Star | Tagged A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Abbott and Costello, Adventures in Odyssey, Andrew Parks, Biffle and Shooster, Biffle and Shooster Murder Case, Bride of Finkelstein, Bride of Finklestein, Broadway, comedy shorts, Dick Miller, Don Mitchell, Duke and Me, Franklin Pangborn, G.I. Joe, Golden Age of Television, Grease, H.M. Wynant, Imitation of Wife, It's a Frame Up, Kino Lorber, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Lou Costello, Me and Duke, Mel Brooks, Michael Schlesinger, Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster, Mutt, Nick Santa Maria, Pseudolus, Raymond Burr, Real Men Sing Show Tunes, Rescue 8, Robert Forster, Robert Ironside, Robert Picardo, Sam Weinberg, Schmo Boat, Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know, The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster, The Biffle Murder Case, The Little Mermaid, The Odd Couple, The Producers, Three Stooges, Will Ryan | Leave a comment

The Return of Biffle and Shooster: Next on TVC

Posted on March 18, 2019 by admin

Actors Will Ryan and Nick Santa Maria and writer, producer and director Michael Schlesinger will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Mar. 22-24 at the following times and venues: Share-a-Vision Radio San Francisco Bay Area Friday 3/22 7pm … Continue reading →

Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Will Ryan, Nick Santa Maria and Michael Schlesinger on The Biffle & Shooster Portable Guide to Proper Etiquette; the latest issue of The Adventures of Biffle & Shooster comic book series; and the upcoming Benny Biffle Birthday Bash in Altadena, California on Sunday 3/31. PLUS: A recently unearthed, never before heard, but hysterically funny interview with Benny Biffle and Sammy Shooster about their much heralded yet not often discussed television career of the 1960s. The Misadventures of Biffle & Shooster is also now available on DVD through Kino Lorber

Posted on March 6, 2019 by admin

Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 420 with guest Michael Learned is now available online for listening on demand

Posted on September 25, 2018 by admin

Show No. 420 with guest Michael Learned Original Airdates: Sept. 21-24, 2018 First hour: A tribute to film and television actor Burt Reynolds featuring highlights from previously broadcast conversations with people who knew and worked with him, including actors Richard … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Film Stars, Podcasts, Radio Stations | Tagged Admiral Broadway Revue, Adrienne Barbeau, All My Children, American Conservatory Theare, Arthur Price, B.L. Stryker, Barbara Eden, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Billy Crystal, Bob Hartley, Bob Newhart, Bob Newhart Show, Boogie Nights, Broadway, Caesar’s Hour, Calvin Trillin, Cannonball Run, Carl Reiner, comic trailblazer, Connie Stevens, Daisy Werthan, Dan August, Deliverance, Dinah Shore, Driving Miss Daisy, Earl Hamner, Emily Hartley, Evening Shade, Family Film Awards, Gator, General Hospital, Golden Age of Television, Gore Vidal, Gunsmoke, Hawk, Hayden Rorke, Hocus Pocus, Hoke, Honorable Judge Turner, Hooper, I Dream of Jeannie, Imogene Coca, Jackie Gleason, Jay Tarses, Jim Nabors, Lance Nichols, Larry Gelbart, Larry Hagman, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Legend Award, Lewis Black, Life Interrupted, Loni Anderson, Marcia Wallace, Mel Brooks, Michael Learned, MTM, My Favorite Year, Nanette Fabray, NASA, Neil Simon, Nita Talbot, Nurse, Olivia Walton, On Golden Pond, One Life to Live, One Slight Hitch, Paley Center, Peter Bonerz, QM Productions, Quinn Martin, Quint Asper, Ralph Waite, Riverboat, Roger Healey, Sally Field, Saturday Night Live, Second Acts, Shamus, Shout! Factory, Sid Caesar, Sid Caesar: Extra Portion, Sid Caesar: The Works, Sidney Sheldon, Smokey and the Bandit, Starting from Scratch, Starting Over, Steel Magnolias, Studs Terkel, Suzanne Pleshette, Ten from Your Show of Shows, The Best Man, The Chevy Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The End, The Longest Yard, The Outgoing Tide, The Sisters Rosenweig, The Twilight Zone, The Waltons, The Young & the Restless, Tony Nelson, Treme, TV moms, Wendy Wasserstein, White Lightning, Woody Allen, World Film Institute, Your Show of Shows | Leave a comment

via Shout! Factory: Sid Caesar: The Works, a new in-depth five-DVD set coming Tuesday 9/4 from Shout! Factory, hails the man who made sketch comedy what it is today while also paving the way for such shows as Saturday Night Live. Customers who order Sid Caesar: The Works directly from Shout! Factory will receive the bonus disc, Sid Caesar: Extra Portion

Posted on August 5, 2018 by admin

Los Angeles, CA – Shout! Factory commemorates the career of influential comic trailblazer Sid Caesar with its latest DVD package, Sid Caesar: The Works, a five-DVD set spanning 1950 to 2014. Sid Caesar: The Works contains more than eleven hours of fan favorites … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Film Stars, Television Star | Tagged Admiral Broadway Revue, Billy Crystal, Broadway, Caesar’s Hour, Calvin Trillin, Carl Reiner, comic trailblazer, Golden Age of Television, Imogene Coca, Larry Gelbart, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Mel Brooks, My Favorite Year, Nanette Fabray, Neil Simon, Paley Center, Saturday Night Live, Shout! Factory, Sid Caesar, Sid Caesar: Extra Portion, Sid Caesar: The Works, Studs Terkel, Ten from Your Show of Shows, The Chevy Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Woody Allen, Your Show of Shows | Leave a comment

via TCM: The Producers will be shown in select theaters nationwide Wednesday 6/3 and Sunday 6/6 to honor the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release. Event includes exclusive insight from Turner Classic Movies, including an exclusive conversation with Ben Mankiewicz and Mel Brooks

Posted on May 19, 2018 by admin

For tickets and more information, including whether it will be showing at a theater near you, go to https://www.fathomevents.com/events/tcm2018-the-producers-50th-anniversary?utm_source=tcm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the%2Bproducers&utm_term=announcement%2Bemail

Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Film Stars, Television Star | Tagged Ben Mankiewicz, Dick Shawn, Gene Wilder, Leopold Bloom, Max Bialystock, Mel Brooks, Springtime for Hitler, TCM, The Producers, Turner Classic Movies, Zero Mostel | Leave a comment

Coming next weekend to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Film historian Leonard Maltin on his friend Chuck McCann, why the term “instant classic” is an oxymoron, and how he nearly hyperventilated after interviewing Mel Brooks for his podcast

Posted on April 27, 2018 by admin

Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Film Stars, Next Show, Television Star | Tagged Chuck McCann, Jessie Maltin, Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide, Maltin on Movies, Mel Brooks, Television Confidential, Turner Classic Movies, TV Confidential | Leave a comment

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Biffle & Shooster performing live at the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena, CA on Sunday 7/28

Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 443, Segment 2 with guests Will Ryan, Nick Santa Maria and Michael Schlesinger is now available online for listening on demand

Attention Southern California listeners: Will Ryan and Nick Santa Maria will perform live on Sunday 3/31 at the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena. It’s the Benny Biffle Birthday Bash… don’t miss it!

The Return of Biffle and Shooster: Next on TVC

Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 420 with guest Michael Learned is now available online for listening on demand

via TCM: The Producers will be shown in select theaters nationwide Wednesday 6/3 and Sunday 6/6 to honor the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release. Event includes exclusive insight from Turner Classic Movies, including an exclusive conversation with Ben Mankiewicz and Mel Brooks

Coming next weekend to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Film historian Leonard Maltin on his friend Chuck McCann, why the term “instant classic” is an oxymoron, and how he nearly hyperventilated after interviewing Mel Brooks for his podcast

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