Last evening, our pal Chuck McCann debuted the first full episode of his Internet TV show, Bits & Pieces…and here it is. It runs a little under an hour and despite some tech problems at the opening, it's a lot of fun. This is live TV so they don't edit out the mistakes.
Chuck's guest is his occasional partner for 40-some-odd years, Jim MacGeorge. Jim is a comedian and an actor and a puppeteer and a voiceover specialist. In his youth, he worked on Bob Clampett's puppet shows on TV including Time for Beany. The original stars of that show were Stan Freberg and Daws Butler and when they quit, a gent named Irv Shoemaker replaced Stan as Cecil and Dishonest John while Jim replaced Daws as Uncle Captain Huffenpuff and, often, Beany. (Walker Edmiston sometimes did Beany…and of course they all did other supporting characters.) In the 1962 animated Beany and Cecil, Jim played Beany and Uncle Captain.
His work with Chuck has mostly been playing Stan Laurel when Chuck plays Oliver Hardy. It was Stan himself who put the two of them together and bestowed his blessing on their impersonations. They talk about that and a lot of their misadventures together in the show…
