It appears that there exists (or existed) at the MGM Grand in Vegas an automaton of TV’s “Lovable Lush” comedian and actor Foster Brooks! My buddy Jack Pendarvis has found some photos of the drunken robot he so fondly remembers. It’s not mentioned on his Wikipedia page, but I distinctly remember seeing him in tiny ads in the back of magazines in the 70’s and 80’s as a spokesperson for some impotency solution. Oh, wait, here it is:
Vacuum Therapy?!? Yikes!
Here’s another pic of the robot from Jack:
I was about to write something about how incredibly un-pc his act would be now (for more reasons than just his membership in Dean Martin’s “Alcoholics Unanimous”), then I remembered Neal Hamburger. Still, that’s all part of the charm!
Update: It just occurred to me that whoever owns the Foster Brooks robot needs to hook up for a guest spot with The Rockafire Explosion!! If you’ve never seen this, a genius named Chris Thrash from Alabama acquired a full animatronic band from the now defunct ShowBiz Pizza chain. And he hacked it. In fact he hacks it all the time making it perform new radio hits with incredible precision. Witness them performing “Love in This Club” and just wait for Jeezy’s verse! Holy. Crap! Imagine a drunk solo from Brooks!
More good news!! A documentary is in the works about Thrash and the history of Rockafire Explostion!!
3 Comments
July 18, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Hey pallies, thanks for the accent on ol’ Foster….loves the Dinoclips and what a great thought that our Dino and Foster are members of Dean Martin’s “Alcoholics Unanimous”….never was, never will be anyone as cool as the King of Cool…oh, to return to the days when Dino walked the earth……
July 22, 2008 at 11:52 am
Very cool blog post. I’m a big fan of Foster Brooks. So hilarious. I love those clips. He and Dino look like they were having a lot of fun. Might not be considered PC, but that’s half the fun of it. Cheers!
August 5, 2008 at 9:49 am
Interesting adverts in the 70’s. All I can say is, we’ve come a long way in impotence remedy development.
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