I’ve recently been introduced to The Entertainment Beat with Frances Gumm podcast. If you follow the episodes from the beginning, you’ll hear the show evolve from an entertainment review with a very special guest, into an off the wall variety show.
The stable of recurring characters includes such luminaries as Judy Garland, Bernadette Peters, Carol Channing, Gollum D’Smeagol, Katherine Hepburn, Gwen Verdon, and Roger Darling.
What’s nice about the show is that there’s nothing mean-spirited about it. It’s a premise that could easily devolve into cheap and obvious parody, but it doesn’t. Instead you end up with something more like The View if it were co-directed by John Waters and Busby Berkeley.
Episode 16.5 of the podcast opens with a rousing rendition of the Super Mario Brothers theme as interpreted by Judy and Bernadette. Thinking back on the Super Mario Brothers
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Yes, the show is amaxing!
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