![]() The other night, across the street from my apt., was a group of trailers from a movie being shot in the cit y ( we see t hem all the time in New York). That makes us Lucy lovers lucky she’s so important to TV history - there’s never a doubt Ball and her classic co-stars will be included in such roundups.Ġ1.26.09 File in the “You Never Know Where Lucy Will Pop Up” category…. Which is the problem with these types of retrospectives: there’s never enough time to include everyone that needs to be included. Many of the most popular sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s were dismissed with a mere mention or photos during the intro. 1 show, a feat surpassed only by All in the Family and For four of those six years it was the No. An unforgiveable factual error had narrator Amy Sedaris stating that I Love Lucy ran for five years, when, in fact, it ran for six. Though the show was good as far as it went, there were two glaring errors: It was followed by 52 minutes of so-called “experts” expounding on the best of the bunch, including six-minute segments on The Goldbergs I Love Lucy The Simpsons (did you know cartoonist Matt Groening created Bart as a “What if Leave It To Beaver‘s snarky Eddie Haskell had a son”?), Norman Lear’s groundbreaking All in the Family, and Seinfeld. It started with a neat digital tribute to I Love Lucy: host Billy Crystal “walked into” the Ricardo’s living room, “standing” between the Mertzes and the Ricardos, noting the popularity of I Love Lucy and how Desi Arnaz created the modern sitcom we know today. ![]() ![]() “Honey, I’m Home!” was an okay hour focusing really on just five or six sitcoms. are represented in at least two episodes: episode two, which aired January 14 at 9 p.m.: “Honey, I’m Home! - Breadwinners and Homemakers,” about the genesis and growth of the sitcom and episode three, airing January 21 at 8 p.m.: “Slip on a Banana Peel: The Knockabouts,” about slapstick comedy, of course. PBS is making a grand stab at explaining why the top comedians were and are so funny in its six-part hour-long series Make ’Em Laugh, airing January 14, 21, and 28 Lucy & Co. She had 2 0 years to pe rfect her timing in the movies, some it spent learning from legends Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton she had fabulous writers and behind-the-scenes experts who knew what she could and couldn’t do best, and could direct, film, light, costume and edit her to a fault and she had actors and fellow laugh-makers like her husband, Desi Ar naz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Mary Jane Croft, Mary Wickes, Doris Singleton, and so many more whom she kept at her side, performing with her. That sai d, Lucy had lots of help along the way to becoming our greatest comedian. If timing is everything, Ball had it in spa des. What makes us laugh, and why is it so good for us? Lucille Ball, of course, was one of the main sources of laughter during the last century.
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