KOJERK AGAIN

KOJAK
1973-1978 CBS

Got still even more Kojak parodies. I'm starting a new folder because I wouldn't have enough room for tags. I still won't have enough room here either. But I'll try.

TV detective show about Det. Theodopolus Kojak (Telly Savalas). One of the other detectives was Stavros (George Savalas).

Cover to the German edition of Cracked.

Cover to the Brazilian edition, also parodying the TV shows Coquetel de Amor and Espelho Mágico.

From Cracked #128, October 1975, art by Sururi Gumen.

From Cracked #138, December 1976, art by John Severin. His partner was Bobby Crocker (Kevin Dobson).

KOJERK
Sick #103, April 1975
w: Len Herman
a: Jerry Grandenetti

Sucking lollipops was one of his his trademarks.

His boss was Frank McNeil (Dan Frazier)

The caricatures of Boris Karloff, Jackie Gleason, Danny Thomas, Carol Channing, and Allen Funt look like they were swiped from Al Hirschfeld.

Monty Hall was host of the game show Let's Make a Deal.

A POKE IN YOUR PRIVATE EYE
International Insanity #1, July 1976
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Terry Austin, Russ Heath, Neal Adams, Carl Potts, Jack Abel, Al Milgrom

This is really a parody of the entire detective genre, similar to the piece from the Longstreet parody last month.Because it has so many detectives and the article has so many inkers, not everything can be tagged.

International Insanity was an adult humor magazine that kept changing its name. First it was Harpoon until it got a cease and desist from National Lampoon for having a similar name, then became Apple Pie, and eventually settled on this. They usually used Marvel/superhero artists for their parodies.

The detectives here, from eponymous shows unless noted otherwise, are Mike Stone from The Steets of San Francisco (Karl Malden), Frank Cannon (Robert Conrad), Baretta (Robert Blake), Pepper Anderson of Police Woman (Angie Dickinson), Columbo (Peter Falk), McCloud (Dennis Weaver), and Jim Rockford of The Rockford Files (James Garner). I probably know who the guy with glasses and the woman with the white streaks are too and they'll come to me after this is already posted and someone will tell me and I'll feel like an idiot.

Karl Malden also did commercials for American Express. Baretta had a pet cockatoo.

The curator kind of looks like Donald Sutherland but fifteen to twenty years after this was drawn.

Also one of the detective that wasn't used in the splash is Barnaby Jones (Eddie Albert).

“Who loves ya, baby?” was Telly Savalas' catchphrase.

SHIT LIST
National Screw #3, 1977

When Hustler made a big splash, Screw, previously a regional tabloid, went toe-to-toe with them briefly, publishing a slick magazine edition, using the same formula they felt they had been using for years. Screw's formula was more 80% sex, 10% satire, and 10% a soapbox for publisher Al Goldstein to air his grievances.

LATE NUT WITH DAVID LETTERHEAD

LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN
1982-1993 NBC

LATE NUT WITH DAVID LETTERHEAD
Cracked #232, November 1987
w & a: Bob Fingerman

Before his later show on CBS, for years he did a talk show that was on after Johnny Carson, in the slot now filled by Seth Meyers.

The show, patterned after Johnny Carson's Tonight Show but more “edgy”, would begin with him doing a monologue and then small-talk with his bandleader Paul Shaffer, who also acted as his sidekick. Sometimes he would read mail from his viewers and respond, then when he was done he'd throw the card out the window behind him. It was a set with no glass but used a sound effect of glass breaking when he did it.

Another recurring sketch was called Brush With Greatness, involving his asking audience members about their experience with that very thing. Larry “Bud” Melman (Calvert Deforest) was used because he was an incompetent actor bad at reading cue cards.

Stupid Pet Tricks was another recurring bit of his, where guests would come on with their cats or dogs that would do things like open doors. Jack Hannah was a zookeeper that would bring on animals solely for the purpose of embarassing Letterman, similar to a bit Carson had. Sometimes when he freaked out, he'd do a minstrel voice that...say it with me... doesn't age well today. After doing a top ten list usually based on the news events of the day, before the commercial he'd have shots with a camera that was supposedly operated by a monkey or was similarly out of control.

Chris Elliott was a frequent guest often doing sketches before going on to some of his own shows, then coming back. Before he and Dave became rivals vying for the Tonight Show spot, Jay Leno was another frequent guest and a bit was called “What's my beef?”

There's a guy on YouTube that taped every episode of Late Night when it was on and has been uploading most of them.

UPDATE:

LATE NIGHT OF THE SUPERSTARS
Avengers #239, January 1984
w: Roger Stern
a: Al Milgrom & Joe Sinnott

Slightly different from the Avengers you know from the movies, but that's because it was 39 years ago. For a month, Marvel had something called "Assistant Editors' Month", where the regular editors were gone and the assistants took over. For about 2 years, Marvel was into self-parody, and I guess this was a way to do that and it was a tryout to see who'd be promoted. Michael Carlin, who was assistant for this, is now an executive for DC Entertainment.

CRYMORE VS. CRYMORE

KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979)
dir: Robert Benton

MAD #217, September 1980
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker

Drama about the divorde of Ted (Dustin Hoffman) and Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) who divorce and then battle over custody for their son Billy (Justin Henry).

Ted comes home to tell his wife Joanna about his new promotion and she announces she's unhappy with their marriage and leaving him.

Three-Mile Island was in the news that year as the site of a dangerous nuclear meltdown and DC-10s were considered very dangerous jet planes.

Ted becomes friends with Margaret (Jane Alexander), his neighbor who is also a single parent and may have influenced Joanna to leave. The son doesn't know Joanna has left yet and it's up to Ted to prepare breakfast for him and send him off to school.

Again there's the 'Kosher Spam in a box' sight gag like in the Kate and Allie parody a couple weeks ago. When I first saw it I thought maybe Mort Drucker didn't know what Spam was, now I wonder if it's some kind of in-joke.

Ted's boss (George Coe) is concerned his being a full-time father is eating into his work and recommends sending the boy to live with a relative.

Ted has a one-night stand with his secretary Phyllis from work (Jobeth Williams) and later gets in a fight with his son for not eating his dinner.

"Jordass" is a pun on "Jordache", a brand from the designer jeans craze of the late 70s and early 80s

Ted has to explain to his son why the parents are divorced and during a playdate with Margaret's son, Ted turns away for a second and Billy has fallen down and cut himself. Ted rushes him to the hospital and stas there while Billy gets stitches. Joanna returns, having been in California for a year to find herself, and now is suing for custody.

Ted is fired right before Christmas, making it doubtful that he can have any make and kind of claim for child custody and vows to his lawyer Mr. Shaunessy (Howard Duff) that he'll get another job in one day.

FINGER VS. FINGER
Crazy #74. May 1981
w & a: Dan Gutman

The Finger Family was a recurring feature in Crazy, the only of the black and white humor magazines to regular feature photo fumettis.

The centerfold for Crazy #68, November 1980

KREAMER VS. KREAMER
Sick Special #1, c. 1980
w: George Kashdan
a: Jack Sparling

The definition of “you had one job” is in Sparling's caricatures. Was he trying to draw Hoffman and Streep? His Dustin Hoffman looks more like David Brenner, maybe Tony Rosato. This doesn't look like Meryl Streep at all. Looks like the house is somewhere in a rural area or the suburbs instead of New York City.

Bert Lance was Carter's secretary of the treasury.

His office romance doesn't look like Jobeth Williams either. Maybe Jack Sparling was returning to his days doing cheesecake comics for GIs. She's a hooker here too.

Meryl Streep is also a hooker. I guess that's what humor magazine writers that worked for $20 a page thought of women.

KRUMMY VS. KRUMMY
Wacko #1, 1980
w: Darius Clegg (probably not his real name)
a: John Reiner

Dustin Hoffman was John Voight's companion Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy.

The doctor is drawn as Hawkeye from M*A*S*H, with martini.