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Thread: RIP Fred Willard
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05-16-2020, 01:41 PM #1
RIP Fred Willard
Active until the end, passed in his sleep at 86. That's the way to do it.
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05-16-2020, 01:49 PM #2
Damn funny guy, a true pro at staying in character. He had a good run, a high demand performer. I saw him alot on variety shows in my teens. He was great with Martin Mull on America Tonight.
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05-16-2020, 02:22 PM #3
If I ever get back to Kansas City, I'll stop by the Ramada Inn, catch a Four Jacks and a Jill set, and raise a glass to Lieutenant Hookstratten.
100% ad-libbed
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05-16-2020, 02:44 PM #4
Shit hadn’t heard.
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05-16-2020, 02:49 PM #5
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05-16-2020, 02:51 PM #6
RIP. Funny guy.
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05-16-2020, 03:16 PM #7
Dang.
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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05-16-2020, 03:18 PM #8
WHA HAWPPENED?!
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05-16-2020, 03:48 PM #9
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05-16-2020, 03:57 PM #10
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05-16-2020, 04:18 PM #11
Fuck. One of the funniest under appreciated funny men.
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05-16-2020, 04:20 PM #12
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05-16-2020, 04:24 PM #13
Fernwood. Episode 2
After the intro of opie and Anthony talking, you can see the brilliance of fern wood tonight. 4:00 mark if you need to fast forward.
Martin Mull and Fred Willard.
And fuck I totally forgot about Mary Hartman Mary Hartman.Last edited by Core Shot; 05-16-2020 at 04:53 PM.
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05-16-2020, 04:39 PM #14
Almost all of the dialogue was ad-libbed within the confines of the plot and sub-plots. The only actor that had an actual script that he stuck to was Patrick Macnee (Sir Denis Eton-Hogg).
I've seen/read that most of the people who worked with Willard over the years had a hard time keeping it together when he's on a roll.
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05-16-2020, 04:53 PM #15
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05-16-2020, 10:02 PM #16Been there, skied that.
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fred Willard with one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies, Roxanne:
"I would like to say that I would rather be with the people in this town, than with the finest people in the world"
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05-16-2020, 10:10 PM #17Been there, skied that.
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and perhaps my favorite movie clip and quote of all time also from roxanne that started with fred, 'maybe i'm in the presence of greatness'. I have actually quoted this almost verbatim to some people who have posted things here.TGR forums cannot handle SkiCougar !
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05-17-2020, 01:49 PM #18Registered User
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Ah damn, this dude was a legend.
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05-17-2020, 02:41 PM #19
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05-17-2020, 02:46 PM #20
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05-17-2020, 04:21 PM #21
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05-17-2020, 06:30 PM #22
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05-18-2020, 10:36 AM #23
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05-18-2020, 12:44 PM #24
I always appreciated Fred Willard’s comedic genius and good nature but never saw Fernwood 2nite til now. That is some rare brilliance right there.
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05-18-2020, 01:36 PM #25
Yup. I was a bit too young to experience Fernwood during broadcast but it was something I always heard about. Countercultural, intentionally cringe inducing etc. https://dangerousminds.net/comments/...erican_comedy1
Martin Mull was brilliant as Barth Gimble, the twin brother of Garth Gimble, a caddish wife-beater character Mull portrayed on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman who had come to a gruesome end (he was impaled on a Christmas tree!). It is implied that Barth has legal issues (which may or may not involve an underage girl in Miami) so after his brother’s death, he’s stuck working in the podunk town of Fernwood, where he feels smugly superior to everyone, especially his announcer/side-kick Jerry Hubbard. played by Fred Willard.
In a scene-stealing role that defined his entire career playing the clueless white guy—is there ANYONE more Caucasian that Fred Willard?—Willard portrays what is quite possibly the dumbest, most dense character in all of television history. I’ve always thought that Willard was a comedic genius—the obtuse angles of his observations, so off the cuff and spontaneous, so REAL—and he was never funnier than he is in this role.
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