@@roberthuot7887 I really miss Dean and Frank all of the great people from those days. Now I know why my mom always cried when someone she didn't know passed away. Now I know cause our time is running out to
I am 51 years old and been through hell the last couple years. But I can tell u Foster Brooks actually makes me laugh out loud. God Bless you Foster!!!
Did you ever see Foster Brooks on the roast of Don Rickles? It was genius, especially the last minute of it. Anybody who can make Dean Martin cry with laughter and make Don Rickles laugh so hard he can't breath is doing it right! It was a sad day when Foster Brooks passed.
OMG that was GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I laughed so hard!!!!! God bless you Foster!!! We need more like him ! They just don't make good comedy like this anymore!
I absolutely loved Foster Brooks. He was so GREAT at his act of being the "Lovable Drunk." When Foster Brooks was in charge... the audience got to SEE A REAL COMEDIAN AT WORK!!!
He was my favorite!! You can't help but laugh at what he does. He was even funny on the Dean Martin Show, especially when he did the roasts. We lost a great one when he passed!
the announcer was foster Brooks I think he played a double part,,, when brooks towards the end came out of character and said a line the 2 of them sounded the same
@@rebeccaryan3621 No, that's definitely Charlie O'Donnell. You can listen to the difference in vocal tone and texture. Also, what sense would it make for a comedian to do as you had just explained? There wouldn't be any logical point in doing that.
A unrivaled pure genius. Every time i hear/see him---and it is often ----my laugher erupts from within-----RIP kind Sir---i bet you have God in tears in your company :)
I really love how you can see Mr. Brooks get into his character about15-20 feet on the stage after he is off the stairs. There is a whole difference in one moment wherein his whole gait and posture change. Just amazing to see that transformation!!!
I graduated high school in 1979 and Foster Brooks looks the same as he did back when I was even a lot younger than that! I believe I heard once that he actually was quite the teetotaler. What a Class Act every time!
I can watch these clips 50+ times every few days, and still laugh uncontrollably at them. This is one comedian (amongst a select few of course) that always knew how to get a good laugh. I miss comedy like this. Not to say today's comedians are bad, though vulgar does come to mind, it's really nice to be able to look THIS stuff up and laugh the way you need to on bad days! RIP Foster! Your memory and comedy lives on!
Scott Major. Foster said he didn't do his first drunken bit till he was 59. Then put on Johnny Carson, where his popularity exploded. I can watch these over and over. The Don Rickles roast I think is the funniest.
I use to love sitting there and watching Dean Martin face Everytime Foster Brooks was doing his stuff on his show or the roast. Foster was always great but Dean is expression was priceless.
Thanks for this!!! Best Comedian in the 70's-allowed on tv that is, and I just saw one of my favorite country singers from the 70's, Larry Gatlin. Better get back to the show! I saw Steve Gatlin and Kenny Rogers. Damn, we've all gotten old.
Those Foster Brooks clips are hilarious, unfortunately, in this day and age, he'd probably be ridiculed for making fun of alcoholism, when all he was doing was lampooning the behavior.
Look up the 2nd and 3rd seasons of Mork and Mindy. He played Mindy's boss - both sober and drunk! He was the best. My son saw him just yesterday when I was playing my Mork and Mindy DVD's and he laughed so hard! He was so funny!
For a man who never touched alcohol even a real drunk couldn't do it any better. See the video of him on The Steve Allen Show where Steve set it up so nobody knew what he was going to do. Steve's wife, Jayne Meadows, just sat there with her mouth hanging open. Watching these real comedians shows just how far we've fallen. Politics is the new "comedy".
I've been trying to introduce my 26 year old daughter to the classics from my time; Dean Martin's Roasts, Carol Burnett, Johnny Carson, Hollywood Squares. As I watched many of them recently, I see that, like Foster Brooks here, they are usually specifically contemporary to their time. IOW, she'll never get them. It is sad because the humor from my time, 60's and 70's brought me many laughs. Now on my way to look up some stuff on Norm Crosby.
+ain't rite It is strange my dad introduced me to these funny comedians back in the 60's and 70's. It turns out we have the same taste in humor as I love clean humor or at least humor with little cursing in it. I will always be grateful to him for bringing me up with the classics that he enjoyed more so back then as I do now. Yes some people won't get silly humor like this nowadays because they may be a bit too stiff.
Foster Brooks was the best acted like a real drunk but in reality he wasn't he was so good at it when I first seen him I thought that he really was drunk until he was interviewed on the johnny Carson show when he said he learned from his dad that's how he became the famous drunk unbelievable
Alexis Elizabeth Drob Yeah, but now days, you wouldn't dare act drunk or you'd be hauled off in cuffs with a big fine. Foster Brooks didn't drink. That is just a bit of his incredible genius. I looked so forward to Dean Martin roast's because you knew Foster Brooks would be there. I was just a kid when I first heard him and laughed my ass off.
The most rewound part of the video: when he uses his normal voice. As I did too, having never heard it before now. The man deserved a career in radio, at least, if he hadn't done comedy.
