TV Guide (October 2, 1954)

Page scan 00083 from TV Guide

Record Details:

Title:
TV Guide
Date:
October 2, 1954
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
TV Guide - New York (October 2, 1954)
Leaf #:
00083
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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He Ribs The Siats Stan Freberg is a 28-year-old satirist with a vague hankering to be another Will Rogers. Being a child of his own —rather than Rogers’—^times, how¬ ever, he has adopted television, if only as a target of his jokes. Also, his satiric essays appear in the form of records rather than as written pages. Freberg’s first big' smash was an original called “John and Marsha,” consisting of various intonations of precisely two words —John and Mar¬ sha. The record sold a half-million copies before the radio networks sud¬ denly discovered their lucrative soap operas were being subjected to ridi¬ cule. Quietly, but forcefully, the rec¬ ord was banned by one station after another as “too suggestive.” Freberg’s biggest hit to date has Ol' Arthur Freberg: Godfrey okayed watered-down version of script; satirist said no.