First, this is how Super Dave usually looked after a stunt:
http://www.bobeinstein.com/Photo%20...loonball.htm We had 8 entrants. Thanks to you all. I wish I could give a nice greyside coin to each of you. Of the 8, five got all the answers right. So I had to use the tie-breaker. This gave an advantage to anyone "of a certain age" who was around to see the Super one in his heyday in the early and mid eighties.
Answers::
1. It was easy to Google Super Dave Osborne and learn he was created and played by
Bob Einstein. I did not know that his brother is the actor Albert Brooks, whose real name is Albert Einstein.
2. The same Winkipedia article indicates that "Super Dave received his first significant exposure as a regular on the 1980's TV series
Bizarre.
3. It took a little more work to learn who the host was. From the Winkipedia article on the Bizarre show:
"Bizarre was a weekly 1980s Canadian TV sketch comedy series. The first episode aired in 1980, and the final episode was broadcast in 1985. The show was hosted by
John Byner...,
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The series contained slapstick sketches, monologues, TV parodies, and performances by guest stand-up comics. Interactions between John and members of the studio audience, or show producer Bob Einstein, who often came in to halt a sketch midway through, provided an early example of removing the fourth wall. Much of the humour on the show was considered risque during the original run of the series.
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Super Dave Osborne
A regular feature of the show was Super Dave Osborne, played by Bob Einstein, in which Super Dave would perform elaborate mock stunts meant to enthrall viewers; a reporter would assist in framing the sketch. Inevitably, the stunt would fail spectacularly, resulting in severe, hilarious injury to Super Dave. These sketches would usually finish with a view of the scene, in which Super Dave was buried, encased, launched etc., as appropriate for the sketch. Meanwhile, feigning agony, Super Dave would discuss sundry details - information about the next show, what he'd do to the reporter once he recovered from his injuries, or why the stunt failed.
Results- only one entrant convinced me he saw and recalled the show. His favorite Super Dave stunt gone awry was when Super was ontop of the double decker bus when it suddenly came to a low level overpass, and when the bus hit it, the the collision sheared of the upper deck of the bus where Super Dave was. He also recalled it was fun to watch his Letterman appearances with his dead pan expression when Letterman would say something funny about his stunt. So congratulations to
Chrycopaul. I'm glad someone remembers Super Dave as fondly as I do.
Chrycopaul: Send me your address and I'll send it out to you ASAP.
Posted 07/12/2007 11:52 am
hey Dave, were you ever on Canadian TV? I have to go look and check the resemblance now.
