# Would you watch The Alan Brady Show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-the-alan-brady-show/690657 "2014-06-12T21:47:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-the-alan-brady-show/690657/21 "2014-06-13T08:23:33Z")
Ted Baxter’s bombast was a pitch-perfect parody of Baxter Ward, who delivered the “news” quite successfully (that is, without getting fired) for several years on a local channel in Los Angeles (I want to say KHJ Channel 9, but it could have been KTLA 5. All I remember for sure is that it wasn’t a network affiliate). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-the-alan-brady-show/690657/22 "2014-06-13T08:41:36Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > I always wondered who in their right mind would watch Ted Baxter deliver the news on Channel 12 in Minneapolis, and why he wasn’t fired immediately Having grown up in Minneapolis in the '60s, I can assure you that Ted was representative of much of the “talent” on local TV back then. So far as I can imagine, he probably still is. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-the-alan-brady-show/690657/23 "2014-06-13T08:46:37Z")
I’d probably treat it like I do SNL. If a skit was good, I’d watch on YouTube. Living back then, it depend on when it was on. It at least sounds entertaining enough that I’d rather watch it than have to figure out something else to do at night. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-the-alan-brady-show/690657/24 "2014-06-13T15:38:48Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Have we had a thread about shows-within-shows? The only other one that leaps to mind is _Jerry!_ which looked like quite the snore-fest. There’s TGS with Tracy Jordan. > [@silenus](#): > > If the show within the show was any good, it would be the show. Yeah, maybe. Except with The Dick van Dyke Show whenever they cut to some sketch they’re planning for Alan to do (e.g. the bowling pin) I don’t think we’re supposed to groan at the corniness, but we’re really supposed to think it’s hilarious. On 30 Rock by comparison TGS is supposed to be pretty dumb. (“Someone put too many farts in this machine! It’s going to exploooode…!”) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-the-alan-brady-show/690657/25 "2014-06-16T01:14:28Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > _The Alan Brady Show_ was based on Sid Caesar’s _Your Show of Shows_, which was very popular at the time. But that time passed, and YSoS went off the air. > > Would I watch it now, if it were new? Probably not. What, and miss Sid Ceasar, Carl Reiner (Alan Brady), and Howard Morris (Ernest T Bass) [creating utter mayhem?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNbT9Lf9xZo) And isn’t the stooge in the audience (at :35) Neil Simon, one of the writers? FTR: Howard Morris was one of the funniest people ever. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-the-alan-brady-show/690657/26 "2014-06-16T11:16:17Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > If the show within the show was any good, it would be the show. That may be true of TV, but not of movies. The “Let’s put on a show” plot of Busby Berkeley movies has the same wonderful dance numbers, both in the show and in the show-within-a-show. (Of course, there’s a slight plausibility problem with the show-within-a-show…) ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-the-alan-brady-show/690657/27 "2014-06-16T18:54:17Z")
I would definitely listen to WNYX from _NewsRadio_. Especially when “The Real Deal with Bill McNeal” was on or McNeal was performing the commercials of certain sponsors. > [@Bill McNeal](#): > > Wuzzup y’all! Bill McNeal rockin’ the mic again cold representin’ Rocketfuel Malt Liquor. It’s got the mad flavor that takes any situation to the next level… so when the party starts bouncin’ and the ladies start bumpin’, tighten up your flow with Rocketfuel! Rocketfuel Malt Liquor… DAMN!!!" > [@Bill McNeal](#): > > Gazizza, dilznoofuses, Bill McNeal sayin’ get with the crizappy taste of Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor! Rocket Fuel’s got the upstate prison flavor that keeps you ugly all night long! So when you wanna get sick, remember—nothin’ makes yo’ feet stank like Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor! Damn, it’s crizappy!! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-the-alan-brady-show/690657/28 "2014-06-16T21:03:51Z")
Alan Brady was doing a variety show. That WAS an extremely popular TV genre once, but it’s been defunct for decades. I wouldn’t watch \*\*\*The Alan Brady Show \*\*\*today, but I DID watch Ed Sullivan, Red Skelton, and Andy Williams’'variety shows in the Sixties. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-the-alan-brady-show/690657/29 "2014-06-20T01:44:46Z")
> [@susan](#): > > I just watched the “Alan Brady Song” segment. I laughed, in a 1950’s sort of way. You mean while smoking and blasting a civil-rights marcher with a firehose? For a watchable movie-within-a-movie, I admit that I’d check out _Mant!_, the internal film of _Matinee_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-the-alan-brady-show/690657.md?page=1)