All ad libbed! A show not only ahead of its time but behind it as well. Kenneth Mars, Martin Mull and Fred Willard and guest Tom Waits. Guitarist, Tommy Tedesco was featured in the band. Created by Norman Lear and produced by Alan Thicke as a satirical talk show.
@@illegaldivingboard5343 It was fully scripted at first but as the season progressed it gradually came to rely more and more on improv. So in some sense you're both right but more accurately you're both wrong and I'm right.
Tom Waits is great!!
Thank you very much! Brilliant. 😊
RIP Martin Mull
Oh sh*t ... yeah ... just passed.
Dang ... he was quite talented, and yeah, will of course be missed.
And RIP Fred Willard
All ad libbed! A show not only ahead of its time but behind it as well. Kenneth Mars, Martin Mull and Fred Willard and guest Tom Waits. Guitarist, Tommy Tedesco was featured in the band. Created by Norman Lear and produced by Alan Thicke as a satirical talk show.
I find it hard to believe it's not scripted with all the joke lineups
@@illegaldivingboard5343 It was fully scripted at first but as the season progressed it gradually came to rely more and more on improv. So in some sense you're both right but more accurately you're both wrong and I'm right.
One of the few times Lear got it right.
I *thought* that was Tommy. Who was on bass?
This and Mary Hartmann. When mainstream TV got…surreal
Tom is the man❤😂
Always felt that Fernwood provided a kind of template for the early years of Late Night with David Letterman.
Young Tom Waits can get it!
Hi Ashley
😂😂😂😂 thanks, lost Gems.
RIP Martin Mull. A great musician and the host of this funny, funny, show!
The best talk show from the 1970's, except for the Mike Douglas Show (Goes without saying}.
The audience thinks Tom Waits is a comedy act
His lyrics do have a kind of humor, along with a sense of tragedy. Was this before he gave up alcohol?
He is. Sort of in this case
Listen to his “Step Right Up” - Deadly serious😆
And? :)
@@BenSussmanpro It's not me, it's the audience laughing....watch the video
Jerry Reed's real name is Jerry Hubbard.
Oh. Martin, Johnny Carson had nothing on you!
As much as i tried, just could never listen to tom waits