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Hey, look... it's HIM!


Heh. I was watching "Log 46: Pilgrimage" the other day and I saw good old Foster Brooks playing, what else, but a drunk driver. I used to love Foster Brooks when I was a kid. It was cool that a guy could make a decent living always playing a drunk. Then again, he played a drunk very, very well.

I was interesting because I recognized him immediately, but I realized that when I shouted: "Hey look, it's Foster Brooks!" my kids would have been like: "Who?"

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Years ago a local radio station had a Sunday-night show that played comedy records. One night they had about ten minutes of Foster Brooks, and at first I just thought, "Yeah, yeah, OK, it's that guy who plays the drunk on that public-service announcement about DWI. Whatever." But then I started listening, and his routines were pretty funny. Some of his character's "logic" was so twisted that it bordered on the surreal, much like that of Gracie Allen. Let's hope he gets remembered for some time to come.

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