The Funny Men: Part 2

1963TV Episode

Documentary

⭐ 5.6

IMDB Rating

12 votes

In this part, the comedians of the sound era are looked at, including a sequence from another W.C.Fields short, "The Barber Shop"(1933), the Red Skelton feature "The Fuller Brush Man" (1948) and Abbott and Costello's "Who's on Fir...

Director

Jack Haley Jr.

Writers

N/A

Stars

Bud Abbott, Edie Adams, Mischa Auer

Release Date

December 16, 1963

Language

English

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🎭 Top Cast

Bud Abbott

as Self

Edie Adams

as Self - Dr. Irene Wilson (clip from Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963))

Mischa Auer

as Self

Lucille Ball

as Self

Robert Benchley

as Self

Edgar Bergen

as Self

Milton Berle

as Self - J. Russell Finch (clip from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963))

Joe E. Brown

as Self

Sid Caesar

as Self - Melville Crump (clip from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963))

Eddie Cantor

as Self

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.33 : 1

Sound

Mono

Color

Black and White

Production

Wolper Productions, United Artists Television

🏷️ Keywords

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🎯 Categories

Documentary

💡 Did You Know?

Joseph Cotton, the narrator of the series, makes his only appearance in the series on screen. Dressed in formal evening clothes, he describes some pretentious psychobabble about the deep meanings of humor, only to be slapped in the face with a whipped cream pie.

📖 Synopsis

In this part, the comedians of the sound era are looked at, including a sequence from another W.C.Fields short, "The Barber Shop"(1933), the Red Skelton feature "The Fuller Brush Man" (1948) and Abbott and Costello's "Who's on Fir...