Posts Tagged ‘don quinn’
Jul 10 2008
Fibber McGee And Molly - Kremer’s Drugstore
Today we take for granted comedy TV shows like “The Office”, “Two and a Half Men”, “My Name Is Earl” and others. They are “sitcoms” short for situation comedies. What’s the history of the sitcom? How did we get to the comedic form we are all so familiar with. Sure there are roots in theatre from Shakespeare on through Vaudeville, but mass market sitcoms started first on radio twenty years before the first commercial TV comedy.
One of the first, and by far the most sucessful radio comedy shows was “Fibber McGee and Molly”. It ran on NBC from 1935 thru 1959. Twenty four years is a long run for any show, radio or TV.
