What was this show about? I know it was on way back in the day during the golden age of televison the fabulos 50's. I also know that this was Audrey Meadows first show pre Honeymooners/Jackie Gleason days. But that's all I realy know,but what is it about?:confused:

Ah, one of my favorite comedy teams (and probably one of the most underrated). Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding possessed a dry, low key style.
They started at Boston radio station WHDH as staff announcers and by 1948
they had a daytime show called MATINEE WITH BOB & RAY. Without a script
and entirely ad-lib, they insulted their sponsors and satirized big-time radio
programs with skits. They moved to New York radio and TV in the early fifties.
In TV they became best known for their animated Bert and Harry ads for
Piels beer. (Source: Neil Sullivan, who wrote the liner notes for the comedy
LP "The Golden Age of Comedy, Vol. 1" (1972).)

As for their TV series (quoting THE COMPLETE DIRECTORY TO PRIME TIME
NETWORK & CABLE TV SHOWS): "Satirists Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding were
already well known to radio audiences when they first appeared on television
in the early 1950s. Although their gentle, intelligent humor had always relied
more on puns and vocal delivery than on sight gags, they nevertheless adapted well enough to the new medium to survive nearly two years on NBC
[Nov. 26, 1951-Sept. 28, 1953}. ... Singer and actress Audrey Meadows
played the part of Linda Lovely in Bob and Ray's continuing satire of soap
operas. ..."

Trivia note: One of their last appearances was on the episode of HAPPY DAYS
in which the Cunninghams celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.

they were a great team and very underrated if any of you from the la. area remember the radio team of al lohman and roger barkley ther style of humour was simillar to bob and ray im a big fan of both teams

Bob's son is Chris Elliott from "Get a Life" and he had a short stint on SNL. He's also done several movies (Cabin Boy, Groundhog Day, Scary Movie 2). Bob is still around but Ray passed away several years ago.

I taped Bob & Ray's 1978 special "Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda" off Comedy Central a while back. It's a hilarious 2 hours of skits starring Bob & Ray with Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner. The funniest sketch on it has Jane, Laraine & Gilda singing the verses' to Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" with Bob & Ray sitting down in front of them singing the chorus lol They could not sing at all which is what made it so funny :lol:

I saw them on a old ep. of the flip wilson show on tvland the other day.:)

Bob and Ray's comedic style was subtle. They also had a radio show on NPR that featured many of their characters such as Wally Ballou and Mary McGoon. Their signoff for all their shows was "Write if you get work and hang by your thumbs."

...started on a radio station in Boston known as WHDH...they got together in late 1947, found they had a great rapport with each other and shared the same kind of "absurdist" comedy and satire they became famous for...and started a daytime show called "MATINEE WITH BOB & RAY", which lasted for over three years (great examples of these half-hour shows esist). Then they got the call from NBC in mid-1951 to do the same thing on the network's late-afternoon schedule, and they left Boston for New York, where they did a 15 minute radio show at 5:45pm(et), sustaining, five days a week. They later moved to 9:45am (under Colgate-Palmolive's sponsorship), while they added a local morning show for WNBC-AM, as well as their TV show. Actually, they were more successful on radio than TV, as they weren't on the tube that much during the '50s (they gave up their brief stint hosting Goodson-Todman's
"THE NAME'S THE SAME" in early 1955 because the show had moved from early Tuesday to late Friday nights, and they didn't want to lose their local
New York radio show on Saturday mornings- and sleep)...and the '60s and '70s, for that matter. Oh, some commercials here and there, appearing in "Cold Turkey" with Dick Van Dyke in 1971, that kind of thing.....

Lorne Michaels was obviously a big fan of the "fellas", and that's why he gave them the opportunity to front their own special (with Jane Curtin, Larraine Newman & Gilda Radner) one Saturday night in early 1979. That was probably their best TV showcase to date.