I’m not always impressed by the tease queen, but this is hot.
I can’t give the same praise to the singing. She’s not totally awful like Yoko Ono, but remember that Yoko didn’t really try to carry a tune and performed in an era before tone correction. What would Katy sound like if she had to sing a capella without Auto-Tune?
This one comes with a video. You may want to watch it on “mute.”
She sings worse than Charles Nelson Reilly’s screams of agony while being roasted on a spit over a fire by cannibals on some remote island.
Oh Reilly?
Charles Nelson Reilly was a mainstay of early 1960’s Broadway musical comedy, and even won a Tony Award. People seem to have forgotten that.
I remember (barely) Charles Nelson Reilly only from TV game shows. Unless I have him mixed up with Stanley Myron Handelman.
Same here. I remember him from the Tonight Show and Match Game, but I never knew how he became famous in the first place.
Stanley Myron Handelman is a name I recognize, but I don’t remember anything about him at all – looks, act – nothing.
He was a comedian; I think he did a lot of jokes involving his mother. I know him from game shows of 50-60 years ago too.
Same. Not fair to say I had *forgotten* his Broadway career. To me, he’ll always be that guy who clearly fired up a joint on Match Game.
He was to Johnny Carson as Regis was to David Letterman – the universal last-minute replacement whenever a guest had to cancel. The legend is that he lived within walking distance of Carson’s studio and could get there with only a few minutes’ notice.
Assuming the Jeopardy! category is “Obscure Variety Show Guests of the ’60s,” I not only know Charles Nelson Reilly’s musical background (original cast of “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Hello, Dolly” and “How to Succeed in Business,” for which he won the Tony) and Stanley Myron Handelman (both a great comic on his own and one of Rodney Dangerfield’s favorite gag writers), but I’ll raise you The Times Square Two.
BTW, I once worked with Tony Randall on a video project, and he told me he had a similar arrangement with Letterman whenever they needed a last-minute guest. He was very nice to everyone on the crew and even arranged a phone meeting for me with Letterman’s head writer to see about getting a writing job.