Month: December 2005

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Episode 8: Monday, December 19, 2005

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 008

In this episode:

  • the Lame Idiot of 2005 (Kevin Federline),
  • a get-rich-quick-scheme (marry Britney Spears),
  • a raw sewage geyser in David and Jeanie Hansen’s basement in Council Bluffs, IA,
  • Cyborg (1989) starring Jean-Claude Van Damme,
  • celebrity deaths (Richard Pryor),
  • “Grandpa” Al Lewis,
  • Mel Gibson for governor of California,
  • a Mr. T update,
  • Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org),
  • and a physics experiment with the fake Julius Sumner Miller.

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Ted Danson

Ted Danson in Creepshow
In 1982, Ted Danson starred alongside Leslie Nielsen in the “Something to Tide You Over” segment of Creepshow, written by Stephen King and directed by George Romero.

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On October 8, 1993, Ted Danson appeared in blackface at a Friars Club roast for his girlfriend at the time, Whoopi Goldberg. He performed a mock minstral routine, repeatedly blurted the n-word, and made fun of her private parts.

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Episode 7: Monday, December 12, 2005

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 007

In this episode:

  • a phone call with the fake Michael Jackson,
  • Ted Danson’s blackface in 1993,
  • celebrity deaths (Pat Morita),
  • Collision Course (1989) starring Jay Leno and Pat Morita,
  • sci-fi disaster movies,
  • TV Guide‘s new larger format,
  • the CBS made-for-TV movie Category 7: The End of the World (2005) starring Shannen Doherty and Randy Quaid
  • Independence Day (1996) starring Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum,
  • a super-strong toilet bowl,
  • Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin,
  • and a get-rich-quick scheme (eliminate shaving).

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Uncle Floyd

Uncle Floyd Vivino and his puppet Oogie

“Uncle Floyd” Vivino, pictured here with his puppet Oogie, had a popular comedy/variety TV show in the late 1970s and early 1980s called The Uncle Floyd Show. He also performed the jingle for Wild West City, a western heritage theme park and frontier town re-creation in Netcong, NJ. He still performs live in NJ almost every night of the year.

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Boy George and Mr. T

Boy George and Mr. T

Two cultural icons from the mid 1980s: Boy George, a gay singer, and Mr. T, a tough, jive-talking actor.

Boy George had several hit songs with his band Culture Club. Mr. T starred in the hit TV show The A-Team and a cartoon about children who do gymnastics. He also had his own cereal and pitied many fools.