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In 1954, after The General Store, Shreve was lured over to fledgling television station WCPO-TV, where he co-hosted an afternoon show with Wanda Lewis and Colin Male and played Lucky the Clown and Roger the Robot on the station's long-running morning children's program The Uncle Al Show.
The show's origins were completely by happenstance. In the summer of 1949, then-General Manager Mort Watters asked Lewis (hired on two months earlier as WCPO's first art director) to host an hour-long filler show called Al's Corner Drugstore, in which Lewis, dressed in a soda jerk's uniform, would take phone-in requests for songs which he would play on his accordion, which would later become ...
The name of the program was changed to The Dotty Mack Show in the summer of 1953 when she was joined by male performers Colin Male and Bob Braun. [2] The last DuMont show was on August 25, 1953. [1] The series then moved to ABC, first on Saturdays at 8 pm, replacing a program of dance band remote broadcasts from Chicago and New York. [3]
"It's actually for Al." For Martin, 79, Short got sun tan lotion. "It's SPF Infinity because, let's face it, Steve is whiter than a Coldplay meet and greet," he teased.
Colin Jost recalled the time he was contestant on a college episode of "The Weakest Link" and the "humiliating" wrong answer he gave during the competition. Colin Jost reacts to his epic game show ...
Steve Martin got monologue duties for “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” on Sunday evening, “traditionally the weakest part of the show” he cracked. Martin was the first of many, many ...
Smith was with The Uncle Al Show for six years. Smith achieved his greatest fame by the late 1960s, when he went to then-new TV station WXIX in Cincinnati to host an afternoon puppet/cartoon show which came to be called Larry Smith's Cartoon Club, which he hosted throughout the 1970s. Smith and his puppets were the first stars of WXIX when they ...
Interpreting John Mulaney’s joke is no laughing matter.. On Sunday, Feb. 16, the standup comedian, 42, turned his attention to the star-studded crowd at the SNL50: The Anniversary Special after ...