DOG COMMENTARY: Take Me Up to the Ball Game is the sixth animated television special from Nelvana Limited….which was released in September of 1980. The title is a play on the song title “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”….as a children’s baseball team….consisting of anthropomorphic animals….encounters a talent scout from outer space named Irwin (voiced by Phil Silvers)….who offers them the chance to play against…
DOG COMMENTARY: Franklyn Ajaye is an American stand-up comedian and actor….whose nickname is “The Jazz Comedian” for his distinctive jazz inflected style of delivery, timing, and astute use of silence. Ajaye was born in Brooklyn, New York….but raised in Los Angeles by a Sierra Leonean father….whom he is named after…. along with his American mother (Quetta) making Ajaye….as he likes to joke….a “true African-American”.…
DOG COMMENTARY: This lil ole chiweenie Sportsphile has posted some 2000 vintage videos….of which many are absolutely priceless in their historic content….but none tickle my tail section quite like the NFL Films production “The Son of Football Follies”….as we are fortunate to have the son’s father, “Football Follies”, also posted within the walls of this vintage video…
DOG ASIDE: Andy Kaufman referred to himself as an entertainer and not a comedian….but this cat was funny….he just made you laugh….even when he was “dead serious”….as many of his “entertainment skits” were carried out through the use of music….like his singing the score of Oklahoma…..or his Elvis Presley imitations….even his singing in foreign tongues….but any way…
DOG ASIDE: The hosts of this 1985 Comic Relief Telethon were three legends of comedy….Billy Crystal, Whoopie Goldberg and Robin Williams….as this event was more than just a “photo shoot for the stars”….as the four comedians in video….Steve Allen, George Carlin, Whoopie Goldberg and Michael J. Fox….were all well known legends in comedy of their…
DOG ASIDE: Since the dawn of time….man has sought the Heavens….with eyes skyward….he saw the magic of flight in the feathered winges of hollow-boned birds. Centuries of failed imitations and bone curshing frustrations followed….until one foggy dawn at a place called Kitty Hawk….for a man called Orville…or was it Wilbur….that the Earth fell away…..and…
DOG COMMENTARY: George Carlin video is priceless around ImaSportsphile….for this man’s comic genius puts him at the top of our list of G.O.A.T. comedians along with the likes of Jonathon Winters, Red Skelton, Richard Pryor, Robin Williams. George Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic….who was noted for his black comedy and thoughts on…
DOG ASIDE: One of the great “side-bars” to many outstanding vintage Saturday Night Live programs was The Mr. Bill Show….which featured Mr. Bill and Sluggo….who were both “play doe characters” created by who we at ImaSportsphile call HANDS….who we often heard talking to Mr. Bill….but we never saw anything but HANDS. In this skit….HANDS decides…
DOG COMMENTARY: While often referred to as a comedian….Andy Kaufman described himself instead as a “song and dance man.” ….who disdained telling jokes and engaging in comedy as it was traditionally understood….for having once said in a rare introspective interview, “I am not a comic, I have never told a joke. … The comedian’s promise is…