Sketch O’The Week
February 22nd, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here’s another one for the “Sketch o’the Week” series “TV shows Tom watched after school as a kid”. This week we weigh anchor with a sketch of three of the main characters from “McHale’s Navy”, Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway and Joe Flynn! This show was one that wasn’t in syndication as much as some others in my area, so I didn’t see it a lot. For a year or so it was on pretty regularly and I was interested in it not so much for the humor and stories as I was fascinated by Tim Conway being in it. My parents loved “The Carol Burnett Show” and I… READ MORE
February 15th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
It’s another entry into the “Sketch o’the Week” series no one asked for called “TV shows Tom watched after school as a kid”. This week we draw the 60’s TV sitcom star everyone was in love with… and Larry Hagman. “I Dream of Jeannie” was one of those shows I always stopped to watch when flipping through the channels (all three of them) after school in the 1970’s. Sure, I was a little in love with Barbara Eden… who wasn’t? She was gorgeous, funny, charming, and the perfect zany comic foil to the straight laced Hagman. The show ran for five seasons, and was one of the… READ MORE
February 8th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here we go with our newest sketch series entitled “TV shows Tom watched after school as a kid”. This week we visit Stalag 13 and everybody’s favorite lovable looney Nazis! This might be the most unlikely sitcom in the history of TV, and that includes all those starring an unattractive male comedian who somehow had a super hot wife. “Hogan’s Heroes” a COMEDY set in a World War II nazi prisoner of war camp. The nazi’s were all incompetent idiots and the camp was a cover for a covert Allied special ops team that did all manner of espionage, sabotage and resistance assistance. Our sketch… READ MORE
February 1st, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
After last week’s sketch of Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams from the recent TV show “Wednesday”, I was waxing nostalgic about the original 60’s “The Addam’s Family” show. I really loved watching the reruns of that show on TV as a kid, which were a staple of after school TV along with “The Munsters”, “Gilligan’s Island” and a lot of other half hour sitcoms. So, I could not resist doing a sketch of the original TV Gomez and Morticia, John Astin and Carolyn Jones. That got me thinking it would be fun to do a series of caricatures from other TV shows I watched after school as a kid! Most… READ MORE
January 18th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I was never much of a “Trekkie” back in the day, but I did appreciate Star Trek and loved the original series as well as “The Next Generation” TV shows. I recognized how much of an impact Star Trek had on Science Fiction as a genre, and the shows were entertaining as well as thought provoking. My favorite character was always Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy, played in the OS by DeForest Kelley. As an aside, most people know the often-repeated Captain Kirk line “Beam me up, Scotty!” Was never actually uttered in the series. Just a common misused “quote”. Well, the “Dammit, Jim… I’m a doctor… READ MORE
January 11th, 2023 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series
This is one subject that is long overdue to be added to my “Classic Rock Stars” caricature sketch series, the great Carlos Santana! He’s been one of the greatest guitarists in rock for a long time, really ever since his band’s explosive performance at Woodstock, which took place when they were basically unknown in the U.S. and their debut album still unreleased. The band’s set was such a revelation that they were included in the Woodstock film and soundtrack album despite their unknown status amid a lineup of superstar headliners. Santana is regularly mentioned in any list of the world’s greatest guitarists. A true original. READ MORE
December 15th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
In case you haven’t noticed, almost all the sketches (all but the Angela Lansbury) I’ve done of famous classic TV detectives over the last several months have one thing in common… they are all white guys. There were not very many women or persons of color playing detectives, private or otherwise, on TV shows that were really big hits back in the 60s-90s. I’m going to try and find a few of the exceptions in the next few weeks, and then I think it’s time to move on from the TV detective series. This week’s subjects are certainly a perfect fit as well-known classic TV sleuths…… READ MORE
December 7th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Who’s gonna drive the “Striped Tomato”? We don’t need Huggy Bear to inform us who our sketch subjects are this week. “Starsky and Hutch” ran for four seasons from 1975-1979 and the relationship between the Brooklyn born, streetwise Army veteran Starsky and the reserved and thoughtful Minnesota native Hutch who became police detective partners in the fictional town of Bay City, California became the template for future “buddy cop” shows and movies. It also made the Ford Grand Torino famous. READ MORE
