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The Bob & Ray Show (1951)
Bob and Ray subtlety at its' most sublime. Raised nasality and whining to the height of comedy.
There stands Uncle Eugene, played by Bob, his sloppily fringed bald head rising to a virtual point, making peanut butter sandwiches and piling them up on a card table. There are at least thirty sandwiches in the rather neat pile and he busily continues to construct them. Meanwhile in the foreground a completely separate interview is taking place in prime stentorian profundo from interviewer Ray as the interviewee distractedly focuses on Uncle Eugene.
Then Walley Ballou, a nasal Bob, the reporter out on the street, is on the air with overbearing, exasperated Ray trying to wring some vitality from Wally's lament that all is quiet but Ray has trouble hearing Wally because of the blasting sirens and loud shouts of fire in the background.
Ray is interviewing Hawthorne Sturdley (an approximation of their character names) the world's slowest talker who has just returned from an expedition to Komodo Dragon country. You owe it to yourself to get a tape of this.
There was lots more and for me the fun was in the vocalization that conveyed a full range of comedic nuance. I miss Bob and Ray.