{"id":124,"date":"2009-02-10T15:48:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/?p=124"},"modified":"2018-11-12T14:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T19:10:02","slug":"tributes-george-carlin-on-danny-kaye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/video\/all-interviews\/tributes-george-carlin-on-danny-kaye\/124\/","title":{"rendered":"George Carlin on Danny Kaye"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-124-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/melgeorgecarlin-dannykaye.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/melgeorgecarlin-dannykaye.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/melgeorgecarlin-dannykaye.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>George Carlin<\/strong>: I would see Danny Kaye.\u00a0 And, especially in the group of movies around 1947, when I was ten.\u00a0 And I can see now, if I look back at things that were popular in 1947, that was my critical year, that was tenth\u2014the year of my tenth birthday.\u00a0 That was the year that songs were on the hit parade I\u2019ve looked back that I know inspired me.\u00a0 \u201cMa\u00f1ana.\u201d\u00a0 May have been a little bit later, fifth grade, eleven years old, so that\u2019s the next year.\u00a0 I sang \u201cMa\u00f1ana\u201d at school.\u00a0 Danny Kaye, in 1947 I believe was \u2018Kid from Brooklyn,\u2019 was one of the one\u2019s where he does song and\u2014songs and dance and that incredible verbal facility for fast talking and complicated lyrics.\u00a0 And I would see at the end of the movie, when the credits would roll, that the lyrics and so forth the songs were by Sylvia Fine.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know she was his wife.\u00a0 And I would write to MGM, to Sylvia Fine, and ask for the words to some of these things. 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