What's wrong with you people? Senses must be numbed from watching all those yawn-inducing "Beaver" re-runs. It's a highly contrived premise, of course (even Seinfeld is contrived. What kind of comedy isn't?). Every time I watch it I marvel at the comic timing and wonder how many times they had to rehearse this business. This stuff is no more silly than anything Charlie Chaplin ever did, and I could imagine how someone like Red Skelton would ruin it with his imbecilic mugging and posing. Lucille Ball got rich and famous doing the same silly stuff, but with little of the same polish. The only thing that didn't surprise me the first time I saw this was the big gal at the end. You could see that one coming.
Review of Jack Buchanan with the Glee Quartet
