Pat Mckenna is a true comedy genius. Being able to improvise Harold Green without a script is real talent.
@northernsnow6982 Жыл бұрын
He was playing the character for 8 years, by the time this was done. If you can't think like your character in that amount of time, you shouldn't be acting.
@arthurserino2254 Жыл бұрын
@@northernsnow6982 Some actors depend on scripts. There's no shame in that. Improve means write and perform simultaneously without preparation and minimal guidance from a director, that takes talent.
@northernsnow6982 Жыл бұрын
@@arthurserino2254 gee willickers! Is that how actors known there lines!?! A script!?! Wow!!! Yes I'm aware of scripts, I've done plays and a couple of musicals. Can't go off script with a musical. I've also done lots of improv for cash. It takes a bit of getting used to. One problem some people have, is getting over the fact that they are going to look foolish. One way to help you do that in the beginning, is to draw off of sillier characters you have played in the past.. I also understand getting into character, and how it gets easier with every performance of the same character. After 8 years of doing the same character, if you can't get into character and do a telethon, you need a new career. You probably needed a new career 7 years before that, if you're doing comedy. I couldn't imagine needed a script, just to get into a familiar character. It's like how you would act around your best of best friends, compared to how you'd act around your boss or grandparents(somebody you respect). You've had many years practice, so slipping into each character is easy to do. As soon as you walk in the room, and see those people, the associated character comes out. Which could be totally different from the character you have, around say your teammates if you're on a team, or your significant other if you have one of those.
@arthurserino2254 Жыл бұрын
@@northernsnow6982 What exactly did you "improvise" for cash, besides a guy who likes to write novels in the youtube comments section?
@UpstateMediaNY2 жыл бұрын
If only every PBS pledge drive show was this good.....this is fantastic! Thanks for posting!
@philipmclaughlin96365 ай бұрын
That's actually brilliant what they did.
@andythompson35282 жыл бұрын
I’ve never seen these before! Now I’ve got something new to watch!
@ChandlerGaming205 Жыл бұрын
I remember watching this when I was little with my dad. We LOVED it. Cant remember if my dad made a pledge or not but we enjoyed this.
@EmmyPierz-ek7hi10 ай бұрын
I did. CB
@HardRockMiner10 ай бұрын
Red Green was must watch tv in my house growing up. My family loved this show!!
@Super_ChiefАй бұрын
That was the best telethon I’ve ever seen!
@Fushichou19783 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting these. I'm a big Red Green fan but never knew these telethons exist. . .it's hours of previously unknown Red Green greatness!
@codym88975 ай бұрын
In 1998, PBS televised the second Red Green Show telethon entitled "Red Green Live '98".👍
@trailingrails995310 ай бұрын
I remember this exact telethon from the time I was a kid. Parents dropped us off at the grandparents while they had a bowling league, and Red Green was our favorite show every saturday night.
@rawrsdower77293 жыл бұрын
This is the kind of time capsule I like to see. I need to dig out my old Red Green episodes taped off my local PBS and see if I have any of the telethons.
@ryanpascual95982 жыл бұрын
PBS = Possum Broadcast System
@ryanpascual95982 жыл бұрын
@@stratmaster5 confusing comment
@Imdeadpool6 ай бұрын
I’m just saying that I’m from Iowa and I was born in 1998 and I love the Red Green show. It’s always been really big here in Iowa and I remember watching the PBS festival every year and watching the red green show part and cast members from the show would be in the studio during the pledge. Unfortunately PBS here in Iowa stopped showing the Red Green show, but I’m glad all the episodes are free on KZbin and I got my mom the complete series on dvd as well as the movie for Christmas last year! Keep your stick on the ice!
@krazerkap5 ай бұрын
I remember watching this!!! I've been looking for the LIVE shows for like forever!!! Thank you for uploading!!!!
@CJODell126 ай бұрын
My local station is WSBE 36 Providence, shown on the board between WQLN and WFYI TV20. They aired RGS on Saturday nights from 1994 until 2011.
@sovbo101 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting this up. I remember that pledge drive, KTWU (where I worked) got 3rd. Red & Harold made a lot of people happy that weekend.
@sovbo10110 ай бұрын
I was working master control and it was my favorite time to work!
@philipmclaughlin96365 ай бұрын
They were so much fun!!
@themusicman15569 ай бұрын
I miss these so much
@PerryWhyte9 ай бұрын
48:21 My Mom went to that Women's Club and saw Red, that's when I first heard about him and I've been watching ever since.
@andythompson35285 ай бұрын
The word game with dougie Franklin is hilarious! 😂
@ianlewis538511 ай бұрын
My dad would've gotten a kick out the Hap segment! "Hapevision" is actually a callback to the episode "The New Lease". It's also cool to see Dougie Franklin and Buzz Sherwood again!
@EmmyPierz-ek7hi10 ай бұрын
I STILL have my black ( unworn ) T-Shirt, Coffee Mug, Button, and a different Red Green video they sent in place of the car one. CB
@MrCoolVermonterblade2 жыл бұрын
First Red Green show I ever saw was a telethon lol
@timfoote2874 Жыл бұрын
That pledge board was High Tech in 1998
@timfoote2874 Жыл бұрын
No Facebook, no Email and human beings answering the phone.
@fhuber75079 ай бұрын
Smith and McMenna made a great comedy team.
@michaelvincent48263 жыл бұрын
Red green for president of the United States
@andythompson35282 жыл бұрын
He’s Canadian, but he could run for prime minister of Canada
@michaelvincent48262 жыл бұрын
I know wishful thinking
@GorVala9 ай бұрын
It's True Dough 😂
@jeromezielinski87733 ай бұрын
Can't believe Chicago's WTTW channel 11was not envolved in this !
@mikeybent16 ай бұрын
what ever happen to them all theyu were so awesome to laug at
@OGMaverickGaming Жыл бұрын
Anyone tried this number today?
@codym88975 ай бұрын
Would you happen to have the first Red Green Show PBS Telethon from 1997?👍
@TheUnfunnyComedian5 ай бұрын
I actually did have it up but it got taken down because it contained clips of the Red Green Show. Copyrighted by S&S productions