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Apr 28, 2021
BRETT: As so many of you know, Rush loved to have fun and laugh. He had one of the best senses of humor I ve ever been around. He always said, All good comedy has an element of truth to it, and for today s EIB High Note, we thought we d bring you some of his unique ways of describing people like only he could.
RUSH: One of the techniques that I have employed over the years is to paint pictures. Radio has no TV, obviously. No screens. So the host paints the picture; the audience envisions the picture in their own mind. That s why radio, by the way, can be the most intimate of all media. Done right, radio can have much more intimacy and much more impact than television, because it ll all be active participation rather than passive. A little montage here of 2-1/2 minutes of how I employ this technique.
Apr 28, 2021
BRETT: As so many of you know, Rush loved to have fun and laugh. He had one of the best senses of humor I’ve ever been around. He always said, “All good comedy has an element of truth to it,” and for today’s EIB High Note, we thought we’d bring you some of his unique ways of describing people like only he could.
RUSH: One of the techniques that I have employed over the years is to paint pictures. Radio has no TV, obviously. No screens. So the host paints the picture; the audience envisions the picture in their own mind. That’s why radio, by the way, can be the most intimate of all media. Done right, radio can have much more intimacy and much more impact than television, because it’ll all be active participation rather than passive. A little montage here of 2-1/2 minutes of how I employ this technique.
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CALLER: Hi. Mega dittos, Rush. My question is real simple. Why Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.?
RUSH: Well, you mean why do I call Tucker Carlson sometimes Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.?
CALLER: Yeah. I call him that now. My wife says, Stop that. (laughing)
RUSH: Do you know who Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. was?
CALLER: No, I don t.
RUSH: Do you ever remember watching a television show how old are you?
CALLER: Sixty. I didn t watch much TV, though.
RUSH: Okay. Well, there was a very, very popular TV show in the 1960s called Dobie Gillis.
CALLER: Okay. I never saw that. That s why.
and “Hardly Working.”
But for many TV fans, Franken may be best remembered as Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.”
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The series, which aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963, starred Dwayne Hickman in the title role of the girl-crazy grocer’s son, whose beatnik friend, Maynard G. Krebs, was played by Bob Denver.
Franken joined the series in 1960, replacing the young actor who had played Milton Armitage, the show’s original rich kid: Warren Beatty.
“Warren Beatty did about four or five shows and wanted to go do movies,” Hickman told The Times on Thursday. “Once he had done that, he wasn’t going to come back and do ‘Dobie Gillis.’ But because he was gone, we got Steve, and he was wonderful.”