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Stop crying! We've got more impossible kid humor for you! MORE Baby
Snooks Scripts from the fertile mind of radio writer, Philip Rapp!
Original radio scripts from Maxwell House, Good News, and a rarity
- an undated script from Rapp written with Alfred Hitchcock in the
unlikely role of Snooks!
For the first time ever, be privy to the open caverns of mirth that
is the profilic Philip Rapp joke file! Rapp, writer for Baby
Snooks, Eddie Cantor and creator of the Bickersons, wrote and
collected jokes for years, drawing from it during his classic radio
and TV years. Now we've taken the best quips and put them together
for one great and funny book! Illustrated. Foreword by Laugh-In's
Gary Owens.
Philip Rapp will remain immortal through his catty creation, The
Bickersons, an insanely funny radio vignette that later emerged on
TV and stage, and which influenced a generation of
Honeymooners-loving viewers. But he was a far more prolific author
than that. In late 1958, he pitched an idea for a series called
Deputy Seraph, starring the Marx Brothers, which would wind up
being their penultimate appearance on film together. Only a few
minutes of their scene was shot, however, along with the photos
inside this book, and nothing else. The project was scrapped too
quickly once Chico failed to pass the medical physical exam
required for insuring its stars during the series. Those few
minutes have since wound up on DVD, but this is the first public
viewing of their entire divine adventure. Around the same time,
Joan Davis filmed her adventurecomedy pilot of Joan of Arkansas,
about a dental assistant who is press-ganged into government
service. But the series failed to sell, and this also ended up
being the last appearance of that star on film. Squeegee was a
pilot written for comedian Ben Blue around 1954 and filmed in April
1955, about the same time that Rapp was trying to sell the residual
rights to the 78 Topper episodes he owned (having directed or
produced a number of them). It was his Topper hit that helped Rapp
get the funding he needed for several of these later pilots, which
failed to catch on. Now, read on . !
This is the second collection of scripts of the hugely popular
Bickersons, a radio/TV series starring Don Ameche and Frances
Langford. Includes never-before-published versions of their classic
routines, plus original radio commercials, both radio pilots,
Christmas episode for the unaired animation show, and more!
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