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Andy griffith football story 1953 video4/29/2023 Somebody had took and drawed white lines all over it and drove posts in it, and I don’t know what-all, and I looked down there, and I seen five or six convicts a-running up and down and a-blowing whistles. And what I seen was this whole raft of people a-sittin’ on these two banks and a-lookin’ at one another across this pretty little green cow pasture. Well, we kept on a-moving through there, and pretty soon everybody got where it was that they was a-going, because they parted and I could see pretty good. Well, he says, “Come out as quick as you can.”Īnd I says, “I’ll do ’er I’ll turn right around the first chance I get.” Well, we commenced to go through all kinds of doors and gates and I don’t know what-all, and I looked up over one of ’em and it says, “North Gate.” We kept on a-going through there, and pretty soon we come up on a young boy and he says, “Ticket, please.”Īnd I says, “Friend, I don’t have a ticket I don’t even know where it is that I’m a-going!” I did. Well, friends, they commenced to move, and there wasn’t so much that I could do but move with them. I went up and got me two hot dogs and a big orange drink, and before I could take a mouthful of that food, this whole raft of people come up around me and got me to where I couldn’t eat nothing, up like, and I dropped my big orange drink. So we got off the truck and followed this little bunch of people through this small little bitty patch of woods there, and we come up on a big sign. Different ones of us thought that we ought to get us a mouthful to eat before we set up the tent. We was going to hold a tent service off at this college town, and we got there about dinnertime on Saturday. It was back last October, I believe it was. Watch the full monologue to see Griffith's hilarious performance or read it below. The script of the monologue was printed in Mad magazine in 1958 and even turned into a short film in 1997. It even landed him an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1954. The performance charted at number 9 on the billboards and was instrumental in boosting Griffith's television and comedy career. The original recording was produced in North Carolina and mass-produced by Capitol Records in 1953. One of his most successful monologues was "What It Was, Was Football" which follows a country preacher who accidentally finds himself at a football game and doesn't really know what to make of it. But did you know that before his successful acting career he rose to fame as a monologist? Griffith also served as executive producer on the show and admitted it was his all-time favorite role after he won a People’s Choice Award in 1987.Andy Griffith was one of the biggest television stars during the 1960s, reaching peak fame from his starring role in The Andy Griffith Show. The legal drama aired from 1986-95, first on NBC and then on ABC. Griffith played crafty Atlanta defense attorney Matlock in another memorable role. He quit the show in 1968 after 249 episodes the series continued as Mayberry R.F.D., with Ken Berry as the star and Griffith exec producing. Griffith appeared as a county sheriff in an episode of Leonard’s Make Room for Daddy, starring Danny Thomas, in 1960 that serviced as the backdoor piilot for The Andy Griffith Show, which also starred Don Knotts as his deputy, Ron Howardas his son and Frances Bavier as his Aunt Bee. TV producer Sheldon Leonard wooed Griffith for the role of the good-natured widower sheriff of the fictional small town of Mayberry, N.C. In his most memorable role, Griffith played Sheriff Andy Taylor in the classic comedy series, which aired from 1960-68 on CBS. A single, “What It Was, Was Football (Parts I & II),” credited to Deacon Andy Griffith, made the top 10 of Billboard’s pre-Hot 100 sales chart in 1954. On the 75-mile drive, he decided to come up with some new material, which caught the attention of a record executive, and Griffith was then signed to do comedy albums. Griffith came up with the idea for the 1953 comedy album while he was headed to speak before a civic group, which his wife had mistakenly booked twice. The classic, which satirized the perils of national advertising, was penned by Budd Schulberg, who also wrote Kazan’s On the Waterfront. Griffith made his film debut in Elia Kazan’s 1957 drama, playing Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes, a manipulative country boy who goes power-mad as he becomes a national singing phenomenon.
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