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Bob and Ray were an American comedy duo whose career spanned five decades, composed of comedians Bob Elliott (1923–2016 [1]) and Ray Goulding (1922–1990). The duo's format was typically to satirize the medium in which they were performing, such as conducting radio or television interviews, with off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan style as though it were a serious broadcast.
Away from the studio, Goulding's hobbies included photography and sport shooting. Together with Bob Elliott he also wrote a couple of humorous articles for Mad Magazine in the 1950s. [8] He was a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan. Ray Goulding died of kidney failure at his home in Manhasset on New York's Long Island in 1990, four days after his 68th ...
Bob Elliott, half of the famed radio and television comedy team of Bob and Ray, died Tuesday from throat cancer, the New York Times reports. He was 92. Elliott and his comedy partner Ray Goulding ...
Bob and Ray in a publicity photo with Tedi Thurman for Monitor, where all were program regulars. On television, Elliott and Goulding hosted Bob and Ray from 1951 to 1953. He appeared on a number of other television programs, including Happy Days; Newhart; and Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda in 1979 (with Goulding, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner); The David Steinberg Show; and ...
The program was parodied by Bob and Ray as their continuing satirical soap opera, Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife, serialized for such a long period of time that it became better known to many listeners than the show it lampooned. Ray Goulding played Mary Backstayge, playwright Gregg Marlowe, neighbor Calvin L. Hoogevin and other characters, while ...
Slow Talkers of America is the title of a classic comedy routine by Bob and Ray.It was released on their live performance albums The Two and Only and A Night of Two Stars.In the routine, Ray Goulding interviews Bob Elliot as Harlow P. Whitcomb, who is playing the President "and Recording Secretary" of the Slow Talkers of America.
For years, this series was satirized on a regular basis on various Bob and Ray shows as "Aunt Penny's Sunlit Kitchen", with Bob Elliott as Danny and Ray Goulding as Aunt Penny. Spoofing Aunt Jenny's references to Spry shortening, Aunt Penny would constantly mention that her cookies were baked in chicken fat, because "If you're using chicken fat ...
Dave Benett/Getty Images Ellie Goulding and Caspar Jopling have ended their four-year marriage. “In light of recent stories, I feel I have been left with no choice but to let you all know that ...