The 100 Best Episodes of I Love Lucy
By Kristin Marguerite Doidge, Stacker News
On 1/29/21 at 6:30 PM EST Luuucccyy! You ve got some splaining to do! There s simply no splaining necessary when it comes to audiences love of I Love Lucy. Named for its star, creator, and producer, Lucille Ball, the TV series premiered in October 1951 and was one of television s first syndicated sitcoms. A groundbreaking show in many ways, the series set the stage for generations of multi-camera sitcoms that have followed, including modern-day hits like
Friends,
Fuller House.
CBS / Getty Images
Winning five Emmy Awards (the first for co-star Vivian Vance, as Ethel) and earning many other nominations, the legendary series was the most-watched show in America during four of its six seasons. Its popularity has continued in rerun syndication which made its stars the first in TV history to become millionaires since they owned the content outright and secured
IMDB information:
Genres: Comedy
Description: Anne and Poppy Rose are the average American family, with three quirky kids. Anne has a good heart and gives lost cats and dogs a home - and one day also the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once. At first Poppy is worried and wants to get rid of her, but with love and patience they finally manage to integrate her into the family. Just then Anne invites another orphan, the aggressive handicapped Jimmy-John, to their summer vacation.
Director: Norman Taurog
Actors: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle, Randy Stuart
Bovi UgbomaOkay, did you know there’s a technique to comedy and that anyone could learn it? Well yes, there is. And if you’d like to acquire the identikit for comedy, you could to simply go to school to learn the art form how to write funny; how to speak funny; how to act funny; how to do stand-up comedy. Did Bovi Ugboma, Nigeria’s prince of comedy, go to any of those schools? Hold on; we will get to that.
Did you know that on Udemy, the online train-at-your-own-pace site, there are more than 15 courses on comedy? Oh yes, there are. I took one of them. There, you learn, for instance, that a joke essentially has two parts. The setup and the punch. They used to call it the punchline but these days, the punch is just… the punch. Why? Because it doesn’t have to be a line anymore. It could be a smirk, a wink, a deadpan stare, a cough, a twist, silence, anything.