I just saw, and this is what prompted me to write on this topic, Rod Hull and Emu’s appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson from 1983. Hull was able to keep getting laughs from that one joke into the 1980s.
That’s where I first saw Hull and his maniac bird. He was a regular on the Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show. In 1974, Hull took this act to Saturday morning kids’ programming in America. If those who were attacked reacted badly, Hull might have found himself in court or with a broken arm, which actor/comedian Billy Connolly did seriously threaten to do once and, thus, avoided being attacked. Including those who were on the receiving end of the attack. Emu’s attacks were startling and looked quite violent while, Hull, acting as a kind of wildlife expert, would appear to be futilely attempting to control the angry bird.Īnd it worked. Often times, Hull, Emu, and the victim would end up in a heap on the floor. I mean that bird would really go after people. Emu would savagely attack people, creating what has been called a kind of gleeful havoc. The feathered friend was a puppet made to look as though Hull was carrying it, while he operated its neck and head.Įmu had a foul (pun!) temper and it didn’t take much to set him off. Emus are large flightless birds found in Australia and are quite similar to ostriches. He began working with an unusual looking bird that was simply called Emu. In 1970, he began co-hosting a children’s show and soon after came his “partner” in comedy – Emu. He soon made his way to performing characters on camera and became popular with fans. He was a comedian from England who, in the early ’60s, started working as a lighting technician in Australian television production. There was another person who gained world fame in that weird decade by using his one joke that consisted of essentially physically assaulting people. Johnson was a character played by Bill Sulga and he made a career out of telling people they didn’t have to call him Johnson. It was also possible for a comedian to make a good living on just one joke. (Of course, you know bio-rhythms and astrology are just a bunch of nonsense, right?)
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