3 posts tagged “qotd”
Is there a friend who you owe a phonecall or email? What's stopping you?
I owe so much correspondence, it's embarassing.
The sheer amount of it is daunting.
I'm going to try and get to some of it today.
What albums are in heavy rotation for you right now?
Johnossi, Self-titled
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
Replicants, Self-titled
Smashing Pumpkins, Gish
Talk Talk, It's My Life
Elope, 3WD and The No Name Record
Audionom, Retrospektiv
Montys Loco, Man Overboard
When you were younger, were there any game shows that you religiously watched and wanted to be a contestant on?
Oh, heavens, yes. I wanted badly to be on The Match Game.
My mother had The Match Game on every day when I came home from 2nd grade. We were living at the house on 1805 Edwin Blvd in Winter Park; I went to Lakemont Elementary school and I walked the 8 or so blocks home by myself every day, because it was 1975-76 and it was OK to let your kid walk home from school. Anyway, I'd get home and the extremely funny guy with the long, skinny microphone would be on teevee, and I'd watch. I learned a lot about adult humor from that show - not the bawdy kind, necessarily, but the subtle kind, the political kind. I learned that adults could laugh so hard they'd cry, and that they could totally lose their composure by laughing about something that happened 15 minutes before. Thanks, Match Game (and later, SNL)!
I loved Gene Rayburn.[Richard Dawson - a frequent MG panelist! - borrowed from Mr. Rayburn for Family Feud, a show that I'd watch but would always wish was The Match Game instead. There really was no comparison. Also, I think David Letterman borrowed heavily from Rayburn and the whole Match Game schtick.] To my 2nd grade self Rayburn was hysterically funny - totally unafraid of physical comedy and being silly, which is totally appealing to a kid. I also loved his guests - Fred Travalena, Brett Somers, Fannie Flagg, Betty White, Eva Gabor, that guy who played Major Healy on I Dream of Jeannie, and of course the inimitable Charles Nelson Reilly.
Match Game, oh yeah! I should see if it exists on DVD.
