Radio comedy - Posts - Page 27

Happy Birthday, Joan Banks!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 30th 2017

In 1949, at the height of the success of radio’s My Friend Irma, actress Cathy Lewis—who originated the character of roomma

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 11th 2017

Universal Pictures brought a live-action version of the classic TV cartoon series The Flintstones to the big screen in 1994

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 2nd 2017

If comedian Groucho Marx—born Julius Henry Marx in New York City on this date in 1890—had achieved his childhood ambition o

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 29th 2017

Though he had firmly established his persona as a flashy, hard-drinking playboy with an eye for exquisite female pulchritud

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 21st 2017

Describing himself at one time as “a reformed introvert,’ writer Cy Howard decided to get into radio after quitting a $70-a

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 6th 2017

Mention “Milton Berle” to any baby boomer and chances are they’ll immediately think of the frenzied mirthmaker who entertai