Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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JOEY BISHOP SHOW, THE - The Nielsen Box
Air Date/Released | Sunday, November 1, 1964 |
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Station/Studio | CBS / Danny Thomas Enterprises |
Featuring | Joe Besser (Solo) |
Joey Barnes hosts a CBS Sunday night variety show from New York. Episodes revolve around his professional and personal life, with celebrities appearing as themselves. At home are Joey's beautiful wife Abby, and maid Hilda. Joe Besser costars as Mr. Jillson, the barely competent apartment building superintendent, a high-strung man with a heart of gold. Rounding out the main characters is Larry Corbett, Joey's best friend, head writer and manager.
Joey goes a little too far making Hilda the butt of monologue jokes. When she has television fixed by Nielsen TV Repair, Larry's imagination runs wild and assumes she has a Nielsen Rating box. Joey goes overboard to get back into her good graces, afraid that she will stop watching his show, and schew its rating numbers.
Crew: Danny Thomas, Joey Bishop (Executive Producers), Charles Stewart (Producer), Jerry Paris (Director), Sam Locke, Joel Rapp (Writers)
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