You may have seen this before. It's a "blooper reel" for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and I thought I'd embed it here and tell you two things about it. One is that you'll get a glimpse of two fine comedy writers who died too young. You'll see David Lloyd introduce Stan Daniels for a stirring rendition of "Old Man River."
The other thing is that throughout the reel, you'll see them cut to Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod and Ed Asner singing a song parody about Mary Tyler Moore. Want to know where that song came from? It came from MAD magazine. My favorite writer of funny verse and silly lyrics, Frank Jacobs, wrote it for an issue of MAD and several of the stars The Mary Tyler Moore Show decided to serenade her with it on the set. Have a look…
