The Punchy Players

It's a shame they stopped doing them. I hope the two guys didn't have a falling out. I still watch them from time to time for a good laugh.

Omg, OP! Thanks for this, I’m dying! The video at the OP is killing me.

I like blue.

Those were great imitations of how both of them talked in the 60s--most of the time people do Liza's later way of talking and Judy's earlier way of talking.

What did Judy think of her other children? We know she thought Liza was talented and supported her career: was Lorna old enough when her mother died that her mother knew anything about her singing abilities? Was there ever any thought towards Joey becoming an entertainer? He was so young when his mother died.

It made me laugh, but I think it's also going to give me nightmares.

I love you, OP, absolutely love you.

Thanks OP, I forgot about these guys.

I’ve loved these videos for years.

Ok - I’ll stop now

Those are my CARN CAB HALDERS!

Ok - maybe just one more...

Oh Chortle, don’t stop now, I’m begging you. I’d never heard of the Punchy Players. This right here is the reason I come back to DL over and over again.

Ok, R14 - I found this while perusing Punchy Players clips: totally off-topic, but it’s Judy and I found the compilation mesmerizing.

More Punchy Players to follow....

Moar!

Not the Punchy Players, but brilliant all the same

Red Carpet....

Can you tell? I’ve spent my afternoon procrastinating.

Thanks for encouraging me to do so, R14.

And of course, thanks to OP, once again, for this thoroughly satisfying life tangent.

Absorbingly brilliant. Worth procrastinating over.

Jeez Louise - what the hell was I thinking??

Thanks to Chris & Jeff - The Punchy Players - for minutes and minutes of entertainment.

Thank you, r37. I’ll try spacing out my viewings so I have more to look forward to another day.

I wonder what happened to the OP?

Wherever you are, OP, MWAH.

So did Judy actually do a commercial for Cream of Wheat?

All of this must have happened well before I was born!

Go to bed, Joey

Ann Miller is hilarious.

[quote]So did Judy actually do a commercial for Cream of Wheat?

Nope. But she did do ads for Blackgama.

JUDY WAS A MENTALLY ILL, WASHED-UP HAS BEEN. SHE WAS AN ATTENTION-SEEKING, CHILD-ABUSING, DRUG- ADDICTED NEUROTIC. MOST OF HER PAIN WAS SELF-INDUCED. SHE OVERSUNG AND OVERACTED. SHE IS VASTLY OVERRATED. IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE OLD QUEENS WHO BOW DOWN AT HER ALTAR BECAUSE HER CAMP REPERTOIRE APPEALS TO THEIR FEMININE DISPOSITION AND HER MELODRAMTIC LIFE MIRRORS THEIR OWN PITEOUS EXISTENCE, SHE'D BE LONG FORGOTTEN!

Well, thank you for sharing, r45. Does anybody else in the group want to share anything?

Well, thank you, R46, I'd like to share that those two queens, Jeff and somebody, are immensely talented at doing the voices, the music and the animation.

They have opened up my eyes to Audrey Hepburn's outrageously mannered intonation. Thank you.

I’ve loved their videos for years. That channel went silent years ago. They just disappeared. I hope they didn’t die.

R45 = Edna Mae Durbin

I’m glad Chortle and R14 and everybody else likes them as much as I do.

I’ve been imitating Shirley Booth a lot lately ...

I sort of assumed they'd died as well.

Ann's "I feel sorry for her" + "It smells worse than Louis B. Mayer after a night of hard drinking" are my faves. Also, the way Ann says Judy ("Juhdy") cracks me up.

Is Jeff who voices Julie Andrews, Charlotte Rae and Frances Bavier? Because those imitations are spot-on. Scary, almost.

R48 I hope they didn’t die too.

Here is the Facebook page-

Those talent free drag voices again?

The Punchy Players deserve a MacArthur Genius Award.

"Jeff of Punchy Players" is very "Mary Wilson of The Supremes" (Or "The Supremes' Mary Wilson). Was there an acrimonious breakup? Who got the MGM LaserDisc collection?

They started with great graphics and voice overs in their comedy vignettes, but then they’d do a static picture with voice over and then just the Jeff guy on camera doing impersonations. Now they don’t do anything.

They fought over rough trade.

[quote] then they’d do a static picture with voice over

It took a long time to do one of their “spectaculars” & fans wanted more, so the “quicky” ones were just stop gaps until the next “big” one came out.

It would take A LOT of time to mask all those old videos.

Yes, It would take A LOT of time to make all those videos.

I wonder if they did the voices first then all that fussy cutting, collaring and pasting?

I admire them!

R5 I seem to remember reading in a bio that Judy thought that Lorna had the talent in the family.

BTW: Lorna was 16 and Joey was 14 when their mother died, so they were very aware of her. In fact, they sometimes joined her on stage or on screen during her talk show. Judy was really a terrible mother, though. Toward the end, it was Joey but mostly Lorna who was taking care of her. It got so bad that Lorna collapsed and was hospitalized for stress and exhaustion. Too much responsibility for a teenager.

Chris was behind all the animations as he’s a great artist. He’s famous for the portraits he’s done of Karen Carpenter.

When the cream of wheat video was finished they had one for Judy on the Dick Cavett show and I watched the first few minutes. Has anyone seen this. Was Judy totally drunk when she did that show. I know she was dead about a year after she did this so maybe she was already dying but man did she look like hell with a very odd hairdo and her teeth looked awful but mostly she looked and sounded stoned out of her mind, at least IMO.

Did you see it privately, r65? I don't think they ever released a "Judy on Dick Cavett" video to the public.

They’re back! Judy has a pride video!

How great to see them back! They seem a trifle rusty but I hope they'll continue.

Talent free drag voice people. Horrible stuff