Why, oh why, does Osborne, whenever he introduces the movie IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, insist on saying the *every* major comedian at the time the movie was made (1962) is in the movie, in either a major or supporting role or a cameo?
Does he consider Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, Groucho Marx and maybe a hundred others NOT to be major comedians? Has he ever noticed they're not in the movie at all? Has anyone ever told him this? Has he been told but forgotten?
It doesn't speak well of him that he can be so dense on this subject. He has been saying this ever since they first ran MAD WORLD many years ago -- and he said it as recently as last night. It's so obviously wrong -- and if I may be blunt, stupid -- that it calls into question anything he says on any topic!
He evidently doesn't read these forums. I wonder if someone could get this message through to him. But it won't make any difference. He's apparently one of those people who, once they get a notion in their heads, it's there forever, like concrete. For some reason, he needs to believe that every major comedian was in the movie, and if that means Bob Hope was a minor comedian -- or that Bob Hope was in the movie (was he in one of the crowd scenes?) -- then so be it.
