We Love Lucy
The Queen of Comedy deserves at least one post.
shareShe did sitcoms. Real comedy is stand-up, of which she did bupkis.
Also, real comics write their own material. To mimic Paul Reiser, Lucy, not so much.
Disagree 100%
shareGo right ahead. Tell me how someone reading someone else’s jokes is the Queen of Comedy.
shareLucy created concepts and shows. She also drove careers and gave others their starts. Not a comedian alive today would say they don't owe Lucy. BTW for the record she and Desi did write a lot of their own material.
shareWriting the jokes is not the difficult part. The delivery is what matters. After all, it isn't as if Lucille Ball is considered the Queen of Comedy because she had consistently better gag writers. Would you argue that Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and others weren't kings in their respective fields because they didn't write the songs they sang? Someone other than Ball couldn't deliver the material in as funny a manner in the way that someone other than Sinatra couldn't have delivered songs as well as he did.
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Stand-up comics are a dime a dozen. For every 427 of them, you'll find one talented person. For
3,000, you may find a very talented person. A genius comes around once in a while.
Ball was a superb ACTOR, first and foremost. Basically every human emotion stretches across her
beautiful, rubbery face. One can be deaf, yet read every thought, fear, ambition, love and
pain that Lucy Ricardo felt. Ball learned and honed her craft from the great silent actors, whom
she idolized in her youth, and early years in the business. Only Carol Burnett rivals her (another
sensational actor who also didn't write her own material).
I could go on and on about Ellen, Roseanne, and Rosie, to name only a few, who may write their
own material. But they cannot ACT. Standing and making jokes is common; Ball's genius is not.
There's a reason people are watching nearly 70 years after I Love Lucy debuted.
Queen of Comedy? You'd better believe it.
Lucille Ball was an amazing actor. She did comedy so well that people expected her to be funny in real life.
She said that her fans expected her to be as hilarious as Lucy Ricardo, but she said it was all in the writing.
She gave all the credit to her writers. But her writers said that she added so much to what they wrote, that she improved their scripts 100%.
She said something like, "I don't think funny. I'm not naturally funny."
Well she sure fooled us! lol
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