Old Time Radio Comedy

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The Old Time Radio Network Comedy, Continuing America's love affair with comedy and those lovable characters that made us laugh. Comedy at its best.

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Old Time Radio Comedy ran the gamut from the country humor of Lum and Abner and Minnie Pearl to the dialect characterizations of Mel Blanc and the caustic sarcasm of Henry Morgan. Gags galore were delivered weekly on Stop Me If You've Heard This One and Can You Top This?, panel programs devoted to the art of telling jokes. Who can forget the great shows, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Borge, Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Bob Burns, Judy Canova, Bob Hope, Phil Harris, Spike Jones, Groucho Marx, Jean Shepherd, Red Skelton and Ed Wynn. More laughter was generated on such shows as Abbott and Costello, Amos 'n' Andy, Burns and Allen, Easy Aces, Ethel and Albert, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve and The Halls of Ivy. Join us each week as we remember these greats and more on the Old Time Radio Network.

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Old Time Radio Comedy
Old-Time Radio refers to a period of radio programming lasting from the early 1920s until television became the dominant home entertainment medium in the late 1950s and early 1960s. OTR Comedy brings back the greatest funny programs of the Golden Age.


Some of the shows featured include the following.


The Life of Riley, with William Bendix in the title role, was a popular radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film and continued as a long-running television series during the 1950s. Bendix was cast as blundering Chester A. Riley, riveter at a California aircraft plant, and his frequent exclamation of indignation---"What a revoltin' development this is!"---became one of the most famous catch phrases of the 1940s.


Duffy's Tavern, an American radio situation comedy (CBS, 1941-1942; NBC-Blue Network, 1942-1944; NBC, 1944-1952), often featured top-name stage and film guest stars but always hooked those around the misadventures, get-rich-quick-scheming, and romantic missteps of the title establishment's malaprop-prone, metaphor-mixing manager, Archie, played by the writer/actor who created the show, Ed Gardner.


Abbott and Costello William (Bud) Abbott and Lou Costello (born Louis Francis Cristillo) were an American comedy duo whose work in radio, film and television made them one of the most popular teams in the history of comedy.


The Great Gildersleeve (1941-1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s.


You might also like the following Old Time Radio programming on MEVIO.


• For hilarious moments from the Kings of Comedy, listen to Dean and Jerry on The Comedic Genius of Martin and Lewis.


• It's the best science fiction of Radio's Golden Age on OTR Sci-Fi.


• Enjoy the marvelous detective and private eye stories of the 30s, 40s and 50s on OTR Detectives.


• Hear great plays from The Lux Radio Theater, CBS Radio Workshop and more on OTR Dramas.


• For classic mystery stories like Sherlock Holmes and and more, listen to OTR Mysteries.