Would we ever do that?
FOOTNOTE: This show in comedy terms holds up extremely well. The real executive producer of the show was the legendary vaudeville/radio/TV comedian George Burns, who’d sit in his studio sans toupee and call the shots. You can get books about Mr. Ed here. I have both DVD sets and these shows remain laugh-out-loud due to the superb comedy performance of Alan Young and the perfect voice of Mr. Ed, done by 1940s B-western movie star Allan “Rocky” Lane. You can get the DVD sets here.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.