On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 28, 11:46 am, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Maybe I took it the wrong way. I'll have to watch it again. But my >> take on it was that Lewis was this hugely bright shining star and and >> Martin suffered in silence in the shadow and couldn't take it any >> more. > > You could be right; if anyone has an ego, it's Jerry. But I think (in > recent years, especially) he's been pretty forthcoming about his > relationship with Dean and the split, and I took his point to be that, > like a lot of comedy teams, the value of the straight man was > overlooked in favor of the comic (see Abbott and Costello, who haven't > been mentioned so far, oddly enough).
I was thinking of a lot of comedy teams and performers who weren't mentioned in the two shows I saw but yet Moms Mabley was. Smacks of tokenism. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
