Joe Franklin, who became a New York institution by presiding over one of the most compellingly low-rent television programs in history, one that even he … I often wondered if audiences fully understood the context of Billy Crystal's imitation of Joe Franklin on SNL in the mid 1980s. He estimated that, during that time, he interviewed more than three hundred thousand guests. Was this review helpful to you?

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Played by Billy Crystal. Joe Franklin was an American radio and television host personality from New York City.

He had a wide variety of guests ranging from actors and singer to sports stars and politicians. Any information you can offer would be great!Honestly, I have no idea. The worst they can do is block the clip. Joe won’t return the call, and he hopes that by Saturday the caller will have abandoned the idea. On the right as you enter Joe’s office is his famous desk. Franklin began hosting “The Joe Franklin Show” in 1951 and continued hosting it for more than forty years, until 1993. I can't believe the show was on for 40 years!Looking for some great streaming picks? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.

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Joe’s office is even less like other offices than his television show is like other television shows. If Happy lets a D call drag on for more than four or five seconds, Joe will shout, “Hap! Probably the simplest way to find out is post one episode, wait 48 hours and see if any of the copyright bots complain. He answers his own phone, does his own booking for his television show, and conducts all his business in a ratty little office on West Forty-second Street, just off Times Square.

Two of the chairs are filled with envelopes and newspapers, and two more chairs are usually occupied by Joe’s aging messenger boys, Happy the Clown and Pop, nattering away at each other like old ladies but ready for action in their felt hats.… Two telephones, nestled in a valley on Joe’s desk, ring incessantly, one after the other and both at once—so often that they seem like props in a musical that is trying too hard to be fast-paced and “zany.”Whitworth’s main question is how one man, working more or less alone, can put together a talk show nearly every weekday. Thankfully, some of those shows have now begun to surface in an official YouTube archive.

At the time I was about 12 and living in New Jersey, and this show was still on the air on WOR Channel 9, a local NJ station. RRW: Elite Track Returns To Boston Area On Saturday. Hang up, Hap! “On practically any afternoon, I have people waiting for me in three or four restaurants and offices around town,” Joe said recently. Archive; Blog; Events Calendar; Joe Franklin Business Industry, Features. Catch up on the 2020 Tournament of Books. In reality, he was the living embodiment of the golden era of showbiz and, in fact, … I wanted to try and get a photo of ALL of the comics who performed but I didn’t have a wide enough lens! Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. What’s wrong with you?” Type C goes, “Hello?

(If you were born too late to watch Franklin’s show, you may recognize him from the Though Joe has made a lot of money, he doesn’t believe in spending it on a secretary, a production staff, a fancy office, or, for that matter, on much of anything. His show began in 1950 on WJZ-TV (later WABC-TV) and moved to WOR-TV (later WWOR-TV) from 1962 to 1993.

Those are the stats. Life continues.”Out of all this madness, of course, emerges an extraordinary show. Uh, I’m just rushing out to tape my show.

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