Norm Crosby's First Appearance on the Tonight Show (1964)
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- Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2020
- Comedian Norm Crosby, "The Master of the Malaprop", first appeared on the Tonight Show, Starring Johnny Carson, on December 30, 1964. It is not likely that the video of this program has survived. In the 1960's, NBC wiped and reused the expensive 2-inch video tapes which were used to record the program in the late afternoon for showing later the same evening (or on the following weekday evening when the program was visiting California). Long before there were VCR's, I recorded the audio of the program on January 1, 1966, when it was rerun on "The Saturday Tonight Show". Norm's death on November 7, 2020 prompted me to post my recording, with the addition of a few photographs from the period. I had tried, unsuccessfully, to contact Norm several years ago so that I could send him this recording.
I’m 57z this was one of the comics I always got excited about when o would hear he was a guest.
The Genius of Norm Crosby. A very, very funny guy.
Some of the stumbles make you realize the difficulty inherent in his act - the brain instinctually wants to say the *right* word, not the wrong one!
And that's nice audio quality, btw! You may have done as much good for the man's legacy as Norm McDonald has! (Seriously, I hear people malappropriating Crosby's name for the younger Norm's that couldn't possibly have known who NC was if not for the relative dearth of comics by that name (only NC, NMcD & pseudonymous French commedia'n Norm DePlume come to mind... Mark Normand doesn't count!)
He was already 37 here!
Did he start late or was "The Tonight Show" late to Norm?
He had it all together here!
I guess this was his national TV debut. He had started doing standup in the '50s, but the wordplay came later.
Thanks for your comment, Joe. I guess Norm was like a lot of other entertainers who worked for ten years or more before they became an "overnight success". Don Rickles happened to be 39 by the time he first appeared on the Tonight Show in February of 1965. (I saw that the night it aired too.) But, Rickles had been in films and TV, besides doing standup, before he did "Tonight".
@@pianopappy What was Norm doing before "The Tonight Show"? Was he comedy as a young man?
I always loved double talkers like Norm. Not an easy thing to build a career around, and no one is doing it these days. I was looking for clips from his appearances on the Ed Sullivan show. There’s only one I could find, and it was audio only. Shame. Like this one on the Tonight Show, from the same era.
Thanks for your comment, David!
Dr. Irwin Corey "The World's Greatest Authority" was another gibberish talker!
@@essessessesq You’re right about that, I had forgotten him.
@@davidhull1481 thanks...Corey was often on Steve Allen's syndicated daytime talk show in the mid to late 1960s...a riot!
@@essessessesq I think I saw him on Ed Sullivan.