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The further away television gets from
30 Rock’s time on the air, the more prescient the sitcom becomes especially when it comes to all things NBC. Which is maybe the last thing anyone would’ve thought when it first premiered, compared to the series that was supposed to succeed, Aaron Sorkin’s funny-for-the-wrong-reasons
Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. However, Tina Fey’s absurd and quick-witted comedy lasted for seven seasons, created a television legacy, and spawned a comedic style and sensibility that made shows like
Great News work. It also left us with the greatest life advice possible: “Never follow a hippie to a second location.” [LaToya Ferguson]
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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.”