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From: erik@ssc-vax.UUCP (Erik Strom)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: America 2-Night
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 17:06:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 27 17:06:09 1985
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> Anybody else remember the syndicated talk-show satire "America 2-Night"?
> 
> As I remember, it was a second generation spin-off of "Mary Hartman, Mary 
> Hartman" (it was first called "Fernwood 2-Night").  Martin Mull played 
> Barth (Garth?) Gimble, a Johnny Carson-like talk show host.  His side
> ....... 

  YES!!!        YES!!!      YES!!!        


   This has to be the shows I've enjoyed the most! Martin Mull played
 Barth Gimble who's twin brother Garth was the original host on Fernwood
 Tonight until he met a rather discouraging death. He was speared by
 a plastic Christmas tree as I recall. (I may have Barth and Garth
 mixed up.) Happy Kyne was played by Frank Oz of Muppet fame and lead 
 a band called Happy Kyne and the Mirthmakers . I also remember
 Kenneth Mars as some sort of a regular who wore a very weird get-up
 which he used to hold up his chin. I have no idea what the story was
 on that. The show was televised on the UBS network; "Where we put
 U before the BS".  


   Two of the stories which were typical:

   1) One night the band went on strike. Happy was forced to perform 
      all of the band chores that night. He used just about every 
      instrument from a kazoo to a one-man-band contraption with a 
      harmonica in front and drum mounted on his back that he beat by
      pulling on a string tied to his arm.  

   2) Mark Hamill came on one night to plug a new movie he was starring
      in. It was a slightly different version of the 'feral child'
      story where the baby is abandoned and raised by wolves. In his
      story, his family's farm home burned to the ground and his whole
      famils was thought to have perished. Hamill was buried under the
      rubble for several days until some of the animals found him and
      took him in to raise. He was adopted by a family of pigs!! 


  Does anybody know if this is available on video cassettes??



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