A-Z GUIDE TO MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PARODIED BY MAD, CRACKED, CRAZY, ETC. UP TO 1996. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. SPOILERS AND OTHER NON-SEQUITURS, TOO. SOMETIMES THESE THINGS HAVE WORDS OR SITUATIONS WE DON'T USE ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THEY'RE OLD.
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Showing posts with label HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT. Show all posts
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The premise of the game show is pretty self-explanatory, a panel of celebrities asked a bunch of questions to a person to try and guess a trait about them.
From The Population Explosion and How It Will Affect Future Living in MAD #62, April 1961, by Larry Siegel and George Woodbridge.
From TV's Effect On Children in MAD #79, June 1963, by Stan Hart and Wallace Wood
From Combined TV Shows by Paul Laikin and Mort Drucker in MAD #47, June 1959. combining it with The Huntley-Brinkley Report
From If TV Shows Were Actually Like Their Capsuled Descriptions by Earle Doud and Mort Drucker, in MAD #69, March 1962
From Russian TV Shows in Cracked #19, April 1961, by Paul Laikin and John Severin.
From If Political Figures Did TV Guest Shots in Cracked #20, By Paul Laikin and John Severin
HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REHEARSAL
Sick #28, May 1964
w: Dee Caruso & Bill Levine
a: Angelo Torres
Basically the NBC Nightly News from before there were all-news networks, when the three networks were the only source of national news. The program was anchored by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. This first parody is based on the premise of what goes on behind the scenes and implies the two of them are not as friendly with each other as it would seem.
Michele Morgan was a French actress at the time. There are other Michele Morgans but they weren't born yet. The picture parodies a still from Cleopatra.
GRUNTLY & BLINKY IN HISTORY
Sick #43, March 1966
w: Francis DiMenno
a: Angelo Torres
This second parody is about what the program would be like if it covered events of the Roman Empire.
In the background of the last panel is Steve Reeves of the Hercules movies.
Panel 5: In the foreground is another Cleopatra reference.
Sponsors were Wilkinson razor blades and Timex watches, the latter had John Cameron Swayze as their spokesperson.
Ringo Stella is a parody of Ringo Starr. They went with the angle of how all rock stars were men who looked like women and did drugs.
Publius Ruth in the Yankee uniform I thought was a caricature of Jonathan Winters since he was a big celebrity then, but now I get that it's Babe Ruth. Duh. The fourth panel is supposed to be Charlton Heston as Michaelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy. Hertz Rent-a-Car's campaign had someone coming out of the sky and landing in a car with the slogan "Let Hertz put you in the Driver's seat".
From Channel Femi-Nine in Cracked #38, August 1964. Art by John Severin.
From Teens All Over the TV Dial in Cracked #52, June 1966. Art also by Severin.
There was a comedy record parodying the program from a group called the Hardly Worthit Players.
DUMB ADAMS' SCREEN TEST
Sick #112, October 1976
w: Jim Simon
a: Jerry Grandenetti
Kind of like Star Search or American Idol. Contestants were picked from the studio audience to re-enact scenes from a famous Hollywood movie with movie stars, and the winner was picked by a director to have a part as an extra in a movie.
The contestant plays opposite Clint Eastwood, though the show would never have actors of that caliber.
This was TV/comics writer Mark Evanier's description of how the show came about:
"He had one other series which almost no one remembers and which is not in any of the obits I've seen. In the early seventies, Adams made the rounds of talk shows and often brought out-takes from Get Smart, mostly of him and Don Rickles. They were hilarious and the reception gave him the idea to do a whole series showing out-takes…or bloopers, as they're sometimes called in a quasi-trademarked way. When he tried to put it together, he discovered that the union contracts made it prohibitive; that he'd have to pay or negotiate with dozens of people for each 30-second clip. In fact, the Screen Actors Guild told him that he technically shouldn't have been airing the Get Smart footage without paying actors, directors, writers, etc. Years later, the union rules were changed in a way that made the Dick Clark "Bloopers" shows do-able but at the time, it killed Adams's plan. Trying to figure out a way around it, he came up with the only possible solution: Create new out-takes just for the show! So in 1975, he hosted Don Adams' Screen Test, a kind of talent competition where the idea was to get aspiring actors, pair them in scenes with established stars and then have a lot of things go wrong. It didn't last long because, I suspect, the out-takes just didn't seem real. Which they weren't."
UPDATE:
from Sick#46, August 1966
Every single one of these shows was or will be covered on this blog. From Sick #46, August 1966. Founding Sick writer Dee Caruso was one of the main writers of Get Smart.
C. P. O. SHARKEYE
Sick #119, February 1978
w: Joe Gill
a: Jack Sparling
Sitcom vehicle for Don Rickles and his brand of humor that wouldn't go over today. He was a naval officer in charge insulting to his multi-ethnic crew but had a loving interior, just like his stage persona.
For those unfamiliar with the way he was on talk shows, here's an earlier article from MAD.
IF EVERYONE TALKED LIKE DON RICKLES
MAD #131, December 1969
w: Earle Doud
a: Angelo Torres
Back to Sick.
A FAMILY REUNION WITH DON RICKLES
Sick #122, August 1978
w & a: Bill Burke
UPDATE: EVERYBODY IS DOING THE DON RICKLES BIT
Cracked #80, October 1969
a: Noel Severin (John Severin)
Like the other MAD article here it was made well before this show but his act was much funnier.
