April Winchell

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• 1 Speedy Cerviche // May 4, 2009 at 12:46 pm

  [insert tasteless joke about what was going into the rendering plants in Nazi Germany]

• 2 joshpincusiscrying // May 4, 2009 at 12:48 pm

  Is this an outtake from “Auto Focus”?
  Did Bob Crane stick Carol Channing in the closet for later…. IF you know what I mean?!

• 3 haineux // May 4, 2009 at 12:58 pm

  Too bad we can’t vote for the comments. They’re going to be EPIC.

• 4 Ira Shlamazel // May 4, 2009 at 1:08 pm

  Jell-o. Nazis. POW’s. Carol Channing and a perv who ends up brutally murdered with a telephone.

  What is a day in the life of J. Edgar Hoover?

• 5 Merujo // May 4, 2009 at 1:10 pm

  Wow. That was really odd. In a creepy, uncomfortable way.

  I just hope there’s no John Henry Carpenter masterpiece from after this shoot was over, involving Bob, Carol, and a lot of Dream Whip…

• 6 norelpref // May 4, 2009 at 2:26 pm

  that was like some alternative ad universe hell

• 7 DavidinBerkeley // May 4, 2009 at 2:38 pm

  According to AW, her mom had a fling with Richard Dawson.

  Was she maybe up for the female role in this “commercial”?

• 8 DavidinBerkeley // May 4, 2009 at 2:38 pm

  Actually, I couldn’t stop chuckling after Klink came on the screen.

• 9 goofydes // May 4, 2009 at 2:45 pm

  that is my new favorite phrase to yell around the house: “Who put Jell-O in my helmet!?”

• 10 AlexVance // May 4, 2009 at 2:59 pm

  Camp inmates trying to avoid calories?

• 11 Knavish Rogue // May 4, 2009 at 3:01 pm

  Put a laugh track behind anything and it’s funny.

• 12 pdgtl // May 4, 2009 at 7:16 pm

  What? No Whip “n” Chill???

• 13 Andre // May 4, 2009 at 8:04 pm

  “Jello. When did I eat Jello?”

• 14 jim // May 5, 2009 at 12:17 am

  Holy schit!

  Yeah, it’s always nice to remember how wholesome, subtle & tasteful our popular culture was back then, eh?

  It’s almost too much pure wrongness for the mind to bear – I guess those guys didn’t want all that camp-chow going straight to their thighs. Wow … Crane was a raging pervert, & Klemperer really was in the Luftwaffe … Carol Channing in a WW2 POW camp takes it right into Phillip-K-Dick-on-angel-dust territory … this pins my surreal-o-meter.

• 15 jim // May 5, 2009 at 12:26 am

  PS – Wikipedia says I’m full of boloney – Klemperer & his family actually fled Germany in 1935. The whole Jewish thing would’ve been a wee impediment to a career in Goering’s gang.

  Yes, I too can screw the pooch – but I’m not afraid to raise the litter.

• 16 DavidinBerkeley // May 5, 2009 at 11:29 am

  Alex Vance gets five points.

  *Ding!*

• 17 pal Jacky // May 5, 2009 at 12:14 pm

  Klemperer’s lookalike father, otto, was one of the greatest conductors in the german/austrian big orchestral tradition. His recordings of beethoven, mozart, are the ones to get if that is the style you are looking for.
  At the height of hogan’s heroes, he recorded prokofiev’s children’s play ‘peter and the wolf’ with werner narrating. At least the Jello ads weren’t targeting children.
  The one disc of his I couldn’t do without of his is Mahler’s ‘lied von der erde’ with christa ludwig. It is my favorite recording of my favorite piece of music.
  He was good friend of kurt weill and even conducted ‘the three penny opera’ in germany before 1933. Hardly the sign of a brownshirt.
  One last thing, one of his trademarks was his kick ass Wagner. A jewish conductor who fled the holocaust loved his wagner.

• 18 Stretch99 // May 5, 2009 at 12:28 pm

  J-E-L-L-Oh my!

• 19 pal Jacky // May 5, 2009 at 12:39 pm

  http://www.amazon.com/Prokofiev-Farrow-Britten-Persons-Orchestra/dp/B001OAQYTG/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1241552148&sr=1-8
  this si the obvious ‘peter and the wolf’ to get. Soon Yi was still just a little tyke in Korea at the time of its release but hell, it is the thought.

• 20 Ira Shlamazel // May 5, 2009 at 12:52 pm

  (pal Jacky, you are scaring the children.)

• 21 pal Jacky // May 5, 2009 at 4:44 pm

  scaring and scarring children is my forte.
  When he was five, I got my nephew the version of ‘peter and the wolf’ on naxos narrated by the dame edna. I told him to ask his ma what a drag queen was.
  I mostly listen to a version without narration. but I do own the christopher lee on nimbus.

• 22 Ira Shlamazel // May 5, 2009 at 5:59 pm

  Oh, dear. You are a little bent, aren’t you! There is a back story here that would, I’m sure, teach us all a valuable lesson in child rearing.

  I can’t help wondering how this nephew turned out- or is it too soon to tell?

• 23 Osafp // May 5, 2009 at 6:53 pm

  this is sick. i can almost believe that some sick someone thought this was a good idea for a commercial….H’s H. was a popular series, albeit in awful taste. But what the Hell is Carol Channing doing there?

• 24 pal Jacky // May 5, 2009 at 7:07 pm

  He is 12 and his mom has spoiled him rotten. He plays ‘maple story’ and uses the term ‘not age appropriate’ when I try to show him games ‘grand theft auto’ and ‘resident evil’.
  No back story on the prokofiev. . Naxos started out issuing modern digital recordings for 6 bucks a disc. it didn’t occur to me until later that perhaps a drag queen wasn’t exactly the best choice and I should have paid extra and gotten the one narrated by sting.
  Now naxos is flourishing and are getting competetive performances to boot. They even just finished releasing 5 disc 10 string quartet cycle that they commissioned from peter maxwell davies. just le

• 25 Gunner13 // May 5, 2009 at 9:15 pm

  Merujo and norelpref nailed this one!

  What really kills me is how sincere they all sounded. Man, they really were actors!

  jim, IMDB confirms that Werner Klemperer was a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, not the Luftwaffe.

  Just to add to this line of inquiry, John Banner was an Austrian Jew (he left in 1938 for the US) and Robert Clary is a Jew of French origin (he immigrated to the US in 1949).

  So you had 3 Jews in a TV show about a POW Camp run by the German Lufwaffe (and it was on for 6 years).

• 26 Andre // May 5, 2009 at 9:37 pm

  Say what you will about Bob Crane, but at least he never recorded an album.

  http://cdbaby.com/cd/clary5

• 27 yelkcub33 // May 6, 2009 at 5:25 am

  The album isn’t as odd as this bit of truth about Clary. Not only was he really jewish, he was also really French and was, along with his entire family, deported to and spent three years in Buchenwald concentration camp during WWII.
  He was the only member of his family to survive.

• 28 Ira Shlamazel // May 6, 2009 at 8:19 am

  I wouldn’t call Dame Edna a drag queen. That would be like calling Wagner a writer of jingles.

  Poor kid. Lucky he has you to insure that he is properly corrupted.

  To change the subject a little,

  Isn’t it time for another show to be posted, April?

  I’m getting kind of itchy.

• 29 April // May 6, 2009 at 8:22 am

  Yelkcub33 – we saw Robert Clary at Gelson’s a few weeks ago, in the pickle aisle.

  True story.

• 30 clevelandphil // May 6, 2009 at 11:41 am

  Scoff at Hitler all you want. But remember he cut down on the population and recycled the bodies. He was “being green” before his time.

• 31 pal Jacky // May 6, 2009 at 2:21 pm

  dom delouise is dead. didn’t they give him a cooking show on KFI after they fired the great Melinda Lee?

  And speaking of dying celebs and drag queens. Didn’t Patrick swazie look a little too natural walking in heels?

• 32 pal Jacky // May 6, 2009 at 2:30 pm

  There was a ‘white swallow’ in san francisco. another bar named ‘the ends up’. Reportly because it was near the first exit of the bay bridge. It was where you ‘ended up’ from oakland.
  Considering the amount of times ‘the ride of the Walkuries’ has been used in commercials, Wagner was a damn fine jingle writer, even 125 years after his death.

• 33 pal Jacky // May 6, 2009 at 11:16 pm

  http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-eric-mccormack4-2009may04,0,3429917.story

  how ‘mo do you have to appear for it to be considered a butch up to be in a musical?
  Also, with Hugh jackman’s love for MGM musicals, ugly wife and adopted children why has there not been more ‘mo rumors about him?

• 34 joshpincusiscrying // May 7, 2009 at 4:09 am

  we saw Robert Clary at Gelson’s a few weeks ago, in the pickle aisle.
  is that a euphemism?

• 35 DavidinBerkeley // May 7, 2009 at 11:25 am

  In other news….

  The Merv Griffin “estate” (read: contents of his closets and living rooms) went on the auction block all the frickin’ way up here, in Oakland. I missed it and the luxurious “catalog” that went with it. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/01/DDJT17BB1E.DTL&hw=merv+griffin+auction&sn=001&sc=1000

  Gawd that would have been a yock-fest.

• 36 DavidinBerkeley // May 7, 2009 at 11:26 am

  5 points to Josh Pincus.

  *Ding!*

• 37 Stretch99 // May 7, 2009 at 12:21 pm

  when I hear the words CHILD REARING why does Chris Hansen and “To Catch a Predator” come to mind

  And a pedofile is not someone that uses a pedometer

• 38 Stretch99 // May 7, 2009 at 12:24 pm

  What kind of re-trauma did Hogan’s put Robert Clery through:
  Clary was the youngest of 14 children. At the age of 12, he began a career singing professionally. In 1942, as a result of his Jewish heritage, he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald with 12 other members of his immediate family. Clary was the only survivor.[1][2] When he returned to Paris after the war, he was ecstatic when he found that some of his siblings had not been taken away and had survived the Nazi occupation of France

• 39 Ira Shlamazel // May 7, 2009 at 3:57 pm

  A pedofile is for smoothing rough spots on children.

  A pedophile is someone someone who molests children.

• 40 DavidinBerkeley // May 8, 2009 at 12:11 pm

  From someone at another board where I posted a link to this:

  ” Oh, and Carol’s bouffant wanted out of that wool cap, didn’t it?”

• 41 eriador // May 10, 2009 at 7:16 pm

  Which concept gives you the most trouble?

  1. The black guy had to get the door.
  2. What jello is made of.
  3. Wondering if Bob Crane had sex with Carol Channing.

• 42 davidhazard71 // May 12, 2009 at 10:35 am

  Does anyone remember when Robert Clery was on Days of Our Lives…..ahh memories.. Carol is still very much with us. I’d pay top dollar for a new version of “Hello Dolly 2: Electric Boogaloo

• 43 DavidinBerkeley // May 12, 2009 at 12:03 pm

  [i]Does anyone remember when Robert Clery was on Days of Our Lives…..[/i]

  Oh, lordy-lucy, Mr. Hazard, I actually can.

  I peeked in and saw him…., well, what I saw was a door to a hospital room and a teddy bear poked it’s head ’round the door. “May I come in?” said Clery in a high, squeaky voice. Then he followed the bear in, having charmed the woman lying in the hospital bed.

  And please don’t ask me to recall any of “The Young and the Breastless”, where that woman Leslie regularly had her top unbuttoned all the way to HERE and you still couldn’t see anything.

• 44 DavidinBerkeley // May 12, 2009 at 12:06 pm

  My grandma got me hooked on soaps for a time in the late 70’s.

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