One of the sideshows during the Sabres/Sens game on Saturday night at Sherner’s apartment was trying to come up with corny jokes to tell over Jeffy’s banjo pickin’. I have a bunch of Hee Haws saved on my dvr from a CMT marathon last summer and watched a couple last night in hopes of getting some pickin’ n’ grinin’ or cornfield jokes that would be suitable for a gig at Spot Coffee. Unfortunately, there wasn’t one line worth repeating. The two episodes I watched must have been filmed about fifteen years apart and watching the decline of the show in the course of two hours was pretty sad. I don’t know when the show jumped the shark, but the later episode had no Buck Owens and a bunch of sorry replacements for Junior Samples, Don Harron, and Archie Campbell. And whereas Misty Rowe looked about 19 or 20 in the early episode, she was pretty matronly in the later one. The first episode would have been hard to follow in any case, because the guest stars were George Jones and Tammy Wynette. They each did a song separately and one song together. They also appeared together holding pitchforks with Gordie Tapp in front of the fence for the “Pfft You Were Gone” number with lyrics about George sitting on too many other women’s laps. Classic!
The funniest cornfield joke we could come up with was off the Hee Haw website.
“Says in the paper that a guy gets hit by a car in New York City every thirty minutes.”
“”Wheee, he must be getting awful tired of that by now!”
If Hee Haw didn’t jump the shark when Buck Owens left, I’d put the blame on George “Goober” Lindsay. He is a rural Ted McGinley. Look at what he did to The Andy Griffith Show. Case closed.
Eric Moulds was cut by the Houston Texans and Drew Bledsoe was cut by the Dallas Cowboys. Kid-sized Bills jerseys of both were on sale at the Bills store at Eastview Mall when the family and I were there a few weeks ago. The laws of supply and demand dictated that the Moulds jersey was priced $14 and the Bledsoe jersey was priced $10. I bought Sydney a Moulds jersey. The enjoyment I get out of watching her in the jersey is part pride in the fact that it’s the Bills, part fun in seeing how much she enjoys having it on, and part satisfaction in thinking about how much I enjoyed watching Moulds play. The day after our wedding Dennise and I went to the Bills game against the Raiders with friends and family. The Bills lost, but Eric Moulds scored a touchdown in our corner of the end zone. My friend Ondy swore that he could hear Moulds’ pounding feet on the turf as he ran to get underneath the ball.
Honorable mention goes to the person who can answer this trivia question: On the Huey Lewis and the News album “Sports,” what is written on the sign behind the bar on the album cover?
The funniest cornfield joke we could come up with was off the Hee Haw website.
“Says in the paper that a guy gets hit by a car in New York City every thirty minutes.”
“”Wheee, he must be getting awful tired of that by now!”
If Hee Haw didn’t jump the shark when Buck Owens left, I’d put the blame on George “Goober” Lindsay. He is a rural Ted McGinley. Look at what he did to The Andy Griffith Show. Case closed.
Eric Moulds was cut by the Houston Texans and Drew Bledsoe was cut by the Dallas Cowboys. Kid-sized Bills jerseys of both were on sale at the Bills store at Eastview Mall when the family and I were there a few weeks ago. The laws of supply and demand dictated that the Moulds jersey was priced $14 and the Bledsoe jersey was priced $10. I bought Sydney a Moulds jersey. The enjoyment I get out of watching her in the jersey is part pride in the fact that it’s the Bills, part fun in seeing how much she enjoys having it on, and part satisfaction in thinking about how much I enjoyed watching Moulds play. The day after our wedding Dennise and I went to the Bills game against the Raiders with friends and family. The Bills lost, but Eric Moulds scored a touchdown in our corner of the end zone. My friend Ondy swore that he could hear Moulds’ pounding feet on the turf as he ran to get underneath the ball.
Honorable mention goes to the person who can answer this trivia question: On the Huey Lewis and the News album “Sports,” what is written on the sign behind the bar on the album cover?
The number to call is BR-549.
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