The Dr. Demento Show (live on KMET) - July 24, 1977 (6p-10p)

[Jeff Morris]

This is one of the few times someone has been interviewed on the same show
both in and out of character. Stanley Spadowski/Michael Richards comes to
mind, and Jonathan & Darlene Edwards/Paul Weston & Jo Stafford. There may
be one or two other examples.

playlist courtesy of The Dr. Demento Show
The Dr. Demento Show (live on KMET) - July 24, 1977 (6p-10p)
Special Topic: special guest Don Novello alias Lazlo Toth alias Father Guido Sarducci
D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley) - Danny Kaye

Redneck Hippie Romance - Bobby Bare
Baby Let Me Bang Your Box - The Toppers
Humoresque - Benny Bell
Poisoning Pigeons In The Park (orchestral version) - Tom Lehrer

Food - Takeaways
Der Fuehrer's Face - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
I'm A Cranky Old Yank... - Bing Crosby
Round And Round Hitler's Grave - The Almanac Singers
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole

Golden Globe Award - John Hartford
Three Blind Jellyfish - Scaffold
Smog Bound - The HiFis
Popcorn Song - Cliffie Stone/Bob Roubian
The Dedicated Undertaker (w/ intro) - The Gateway Trio

Don't Touch Me There - The Tubes
Who's On First - The Credibility Gap
Them Duck Pluckers - Mason Williams

The Thing - Phil Harris
Down At Greesy Lee's - Mike McCollum Band
Bullwinkle's Poetry Corner - Rocky & His Friends
Three Little Pigs - Al "Jazzbo" Collins
Like A Dribbling Fram - Race Marbles

Sunday Funnies - J. Eric Freedner
The Motorcycle Story - Brother Dave Gardner
Skateboard Convoy - Sneakers & Lace

Narrow Gauge Blues - El Watson
Travel Agency - Monty Python
In The Land Of Zulu - Gene Autry
Barnacle Bill The Sailor - Bud Billings

The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Wobblin' Goblin - Rosemary Clooney
L. S. Bumblebee - Peter Cook & Dudley Moore

A European (Speaks Up For The U.S.) - Guido Sarducci
Father Guido Sarducci interview
The Ford/Hoover Comparisons - Father Guido Sarducci
Don Novello interview

Mr. Frump In The Iron Lung - Alfred Yankovic
Hospitality Blues - Doug Harrell
I'm Bound For The Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes

Ain't We Crazy - Haywire Mac
Brain Damage - Brewer & Shipley
Cobwebs And Strange - The Who [started at 45 rpm instead of 33 1/3 rpm]
Abdul Abulbul Amir - Frank Crumit
Gunga Didn't - Lord Didd
#10 Beatle Reunion - Phil Wilson

#9 Telephone Man - Meri Wilson

#8 Hooray For Captain Spaulding - Groucho Marx
#7 Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp) - Allan Sherman [started at 45 rpm instead of 33 1/3 rpm]

#6 They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! (Demented Mix) - Napoleon XIV
Ya Wanna Buy A Bunny? (brief sped-up excerpt, background only) - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
#5 C. B. Savage - Rod Hart
#4 Stardrek - Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara

#3 Boobs A Lot - The Holy Modal Rounders
#2 Pencil Neck Geek - Fred Blassie
EXTRA: Wrestling (Live At City Center) - Monty Python
#2 Pencil Neck Geek (epilogue) - Fred Blassie
#1 Small Busted Women - Sulu
Happy Trails - Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
next week: the return of Glen & Mary Bedlam and maybe Baby Bedlam

[R H Draney]

Post by Jeff Morris
This is one of the few times someone has been interviewed on the same show
both in and out of character. Stanley Spadowski/Michael Richards comes to
mind, and Jonathan & Darlene Edwards/Paul Weston & Jo Stafford. There may
be one or two other examples.

Maybe Spinal Tap, on March 11, 1984...I thought I remembered a similar
arrangement with Jake and Elwood Blues, but if so I can't find it in the
playlist archives...or maybe they weren't both in and out of character on the
same show....

It's a philosophical question whether someone like Mel Blanc doing voices during
an interview constitutes "in character"....r

[Jeff Morris]

Post by R H Draney
Maybe Spinal Tap, on March 11, 1984...

Not that I recall. They do talk about performing on stage in character, but I don't think Dr. D interviewed them in character.

Post by R H Draney
I thought I remembered a similar
arrangement with Jake and Elwood Blues, but if so I can't find it in the
playlist archives...or maybe they weren't both in and out of character on the
same show....

I don't think they ever directly appeared on the show, but on 80-32 they pre-taped some intros to records when John Landis appeared on the show. And you're right, they did pre-tape one in character, while the others weren't. They weren't interviewed, but this sort of counts.

Post by R H Draney
It's a philosophical question whether someone like Mel Blanc doing voices during
an interview constitutes "in character"....r

I don't think Dr. D interviewed him or Daws Butler in character, they just briefly did a voice as an example. However, this reminded me of a couple of other voice actors. I believe he *did* interview both Donald Duck and Clarence Nash in 1975, so that's definitely another example! And in 1982 he interviewed Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. and The Chipmunks, so that counts as well.

[R H Draney]

Post by R H Draney
Maybe Spinal Tap, on March 11, 1984...

Not that I recall. They do talk about performing on stage in character, bu=
t I don't think Dr. D interviewed them in character.

Post by R H Draney
I thought I remembered a similar
arrangement with Jake and Elwood Blues, but if so I can't find it in the
playlist archives...or maybe they weren't both in and out of character on=

the

Post by R H Draney
same show....

I don't think they ever directly appeared on the show, but on 80-32 they pr=
e-taped some intros to records when John Landis appeared on the show. And =
you're right, they did pre-tape one in character, while the others weren't.=
They weren't interviewed, but this sort of counts.

Post by R H Draney
It's a philosophical question whether someone like Mel Blanc doing voices=

during

Post by R H Draney
an interview constitutes "in character"....r

I don't think Dr. D interviewed him or Daws Butler in character, they just =
briefly did a voice as an example. However, this reminded me of a couple o=
f other voice actors. I believe he *did* interview both Donald Duck and Cl=
arence Nash in 1975, so that's definitely another example! And in 1982 he =
interviewed Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. and The Chipmunks, so that counts as well=
.

More along the lines of the Don Novello/Father Guido Sarducci situation would be
any comedian who has a character so sharply defined that they could be
interviewed as both...although it hasn't happened on the show, someone like Paul
Reubens/Pee Wee Herman, or Andrew Dice Clay/Diceman, for example....

I remembered a case where both the performer (as himself) and the character were
interviewed, but I don't think ever on the same show: Mark Mothersbaugh/Boogie
Boy...another interview from around that same time featured Lenny and Squiggy,
but I don't they broke character during the appearance....r