When I was at music school I studied jazz improve with Lin Biviano. One day flipping through the channels I saw him on The Lawrence Welk Show, turns out his mom was a regular pianist on the show. That's all fine and good, but for those of you who, like me, think that The Lawrence Welk Show is a strange cultural phenomenon, enjoy this video.
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Ben, do you ever sleep? I understand that you are a busy man, and I also enjoy a good PBS show every now and then, but really I am concerned about your well being, I think that you are becoming part of your fantasmagoria...some times i wonder if you really exist at all or if you are simply a ghost functioning as a guide as I go through the "program" and if this is the case i would like my guide to be ready and awake enough to share mate with me this morning
I thought this sketch was hillharryass and when I tried to explain to Priscila why it was so funny, I had a hard time. I admit that I only know of the LW show because of KBYU. Every time that I would come across it on TV I had to stop and gander a while because of its other worldliness. I suppose that North Dakota could be considered as another world. Maybe it's just the multiple movies that I've seen that seek to deface the kind of perfection that the LW tries to depict, but when I see the show I can't help but imagine weird scenarios for what happens backstage.
As far as the sketch goes, I'm guessing that most of the viewers, like the studio audience, didn't get the joke because the LW show probably only airs on KBYU and K-North Dakota.
Anway,
Funny (ho-oh)
Mac, so true. The LW show is definitely oddly perfect, in a Leave it to Beaver way, but without Wally and the Beave. Shaunie told me that her grandpa would watch the LW show, so it is also broadcast on K-Eastern Washington Farm Areavision too. I also think the audience didn't get it. Perhaps the best part is the first cut back to LW conducting with a confused face in response to "I like chasing cars". That was a dead on impersonation as far as the body language goes.
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