ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
Radio comedians popular in the fifties very dry comedy, low keyed; Bob's son (Chris Elliott) also does comedy. Here they are in one of their rare television appearances performing a sketch called "Whooping Cranes." You can probably tell that their comedy is much better suited to radio.
[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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