COURTING SLEEP WITH NANCY BERG

COUNTING SHEEP WITH NANCY BERG
?, some time in the fifties

Cockeyed #4, c. 1956
a: Steve DuQuette

Don't fall for the clickbait thumbnail like I did. Mention of her and the show comes seven minutes into the video. No clips of the show seem to exist. Nancy Berg was a model who often played “someone's girlfriend” in movies and maybe had one or two lines. (I can't think of a modern equivalent right now. Help me out.) She had a show every night, presumably during the signoff (back when TV had signoffs) for about five minutes, sort of a flipped version of The Continental, where she was in bed at the end of the night reading a book or eating a snack, doing what one would do before they go to sleep, accompanied by the metaphor of sheep jumping over the fence.

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GUYS AND DOLLS (1955)
dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

COCKEYED REVIEWS THE CINEMA: GUYS AND DOLLS
Cockeyed #4, c. 1956
a: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (1961)
dir: J. Lee Thompson

PAPAKONSTANTANTINOU AND COMPANY
Sick #9, November 1961

HEY HEY IT'S SATURDAY
1971-1999 Nine Network

HEY HEY DOES IT MATTER DAY
Australian MAD #276, January 1988

Spoof they did of the show prior to the one I posted before.

“Media Watch” was one of their segments where viewers would send in funny newspaper and magazine articles. “Red Faces” was parodied before.

“Chook Lotto” was their version of a Lotto draw with the numbers placed on live chickens instead of something like ping pong balls, and the winner was presented a Toyota from dealer Ken Morgon.

Jackie McDonald was later co-host of the show.

THE JACK PAAR SHOW
1957-1962 NBC

JACK PAAR'S KNOW-IT-ALLS
Sick #10, December 1961
a: Leo Morey

Jack Paar was one of the first talk show hosts. I can only identify a few of the caricatures here, and after more are pointed out, I'll realize what I forgot. Right now all I can point out are Boris Karloff, Charley Weaver, Jonathan Winters, Wally Cox, Elsa Maxwell, Mort Sahl, Ed Sullivan.

JACK'S MYSTERY GUEST
Sick #14, August 1962
artist unknown

KING KONG (1976)
dir: John Guillermin

KONG DONG
Goose #3, December 1976
a: Al Scaduto

L. A. LAW
1986-1994 NBC

LA-LA LAW
Barf #1, May 1990
w: Herb Shapiro
a: Wood (not Wally)

Parodying how that and all Stephen Bochco=produced shows have large casts. The ending is a reference to the cabin scene of A Night at the Opera.

LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN
1982-1993 NBC

DAAAAAAAAVIID LITTERMAN!
Barf #3, December 1990
w: Todd Loren
a: Ken Landgraf

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Here we go with another batch before I get to what I already had planned when my computer shut me out of all my files.

CHEERS
1982-1993 NBC

BEERS
Elvis Shrugged #1, February 1991
w: Dennis Worden
a: Scott Jackson

Elvis Shrugged used someof the material meant for Barf when publisher Todd Loren was murdered. I know Dennis Worden and don't know exactly why he was writing for them. He's better than that and opposite them politically. Maybe he felt an obligation when the publisher picked up his hilarious Stickboy after his falling out with previous publisher Fantagraphics.

THE CONTINENTAL
1952-1954 CBS, SYNDICATED

THE TRANS-CONTINENTAL
Bughouse #3, July-August 1954
artist unknown

COOL HAND LUKE (1967)
dir: Stuart Rosenberg

HOT HAND DUKE
Wild! #2, June 1968
a: Henry Scarpelli

This parody conflates the crew distracted by seeing the woman washing her car and Luke using the task of fetching the warden's pet from the car as his first escape attempt.

THE COSBY SHOW
1984-1992 NBC

THE NIL FLAWSBY SHOW
Barf #3, September 1990
w: Herb Shapiro and Todd Loren
a: Dave Garcia

THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER
1969-1972 ABC

THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S DA-DA
Sick #78, September 1970
w: Guy Thomas
a: Jack Sparling

THE COWBOYS (1972)
dir: Mark Rydell

SICK MOVIE REVIEW: THE COWBOYS
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)

Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader known for having an eyepatch. Ralph Nader, before he was a presidential candidate, wrote about unsafety of consumer products first exposing the auto business.

CROCODILE DUNDEE
dir: Peter Faimann

Australian MAD #272, July 1987
w: Adam Searle
a: Zmud

Like I mentioned before, the Australian version of MAD often does versions of movies not parodied here, yet they did one of Crocodile Dundee, which had already been parodied in the American version. Perhaps the country felt it was their domain, since Paul Hogan was already a well known personality there before making a big splash in the US and launching our brief period of Austro-mania in the late eighties. Apologies for the political incorrectness that doesn't translate as well over the borders.

DRAGNET
1951-1959,1967-1970 NBC

DRAGNET LETTER
Cockeyed #4, c. 1956
author unknown