Today’s subject is old beer commercials and the Icons of Comedy. What comedy team provided the voices for Bert & Harry Piel in the Piel’s commercials? They were also the first comedy team since the Marx Brothers to have their own show on Broadway, The Two and Only in 1970. Most notably, Commissioner Carstairs, their lampoon of Senator Joseph McCarthy, was instrumental in bringing down the demagogue. What comic genius provided the voices of Schultz, Dooley, Farmer Mugee, U-Cee and Old Man Stein for Utica Club commercials, including ad-libbing much of the dialogue. He was the guy who made improv a major genre of American Comedy. Jack Parr once said “If you were to ask me the funniest twenty-five people I’ve ever known, I’d say ‘He is.’”
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:12:47 +0000
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