paveleck@ihlpl.UUCP (r. paveleck) (04/08/85)
The voice of Roger Ramjet was done by Gary Owens, who was the announcer for the "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" show. Owens also did a number of other announcing jobs and I think he was also the host of a kiddie radio show for a while. This is interesting in that the host made one of the most famous radio "bloopers" of all time when he candidly aired his opinions about the kids in the audience when he THOUGHT he was off the air (something like "...this is your Uncle Don saying GOOD NIGHT!!... We're off?! Good! That oughta hold the little bastards for a while!!") That must've shocked many a listening parent! Bob Paveleck ..ihtnt!paveleck
davew@shark.UUCP (Dave Williams) (04/09/85)
In article <120@ihlpl.UUCP> paveleck@ihlpl.UUCP (r. paveleck) writes: >The voice of Roger Ramjet was done by Gary Owens, who was the announcer >for the "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" show. Owens also did a number of >other announcing jobs and I think he was also the host of a kiddie radio >show for a while. This is interesting in that the host made one of the >most famous radio "bloopers" of all time when he candidly aired his >opinions about the kids in the audience when he THOUGHT he was off the >air (something like "...this is your Uncle Don saying GOOD NIGHT!!... >We're off?! Good! That oughta hold the little bastards for a while!!") >That must've shocked many a listening parent! > >Bob Paveleck >..ihtnt!paveleck You are right about everything except the Uncle Don thing. That blooper was done on the radio some years ago (1930's or early 40's) by a man who read the funny papers to the kids on Sunday mornings. It can be found on one of the early blooper records put out in the late 50's. Gary Owens did a take off on this on Laugh In. The tag line was bleeped, but everyone knew the story, which made it doubly funny. -- Dave Williams Tektronix, Inc. Engineering Computing Systems "6000" "The workstations that made Wilsonville famous."