TONIGHT NYC: THE JOE FRANKLIN SHOW AT THE METROPOLITAN ROOM
A special edition of The Joe Franklin Show will be presented at THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440) on Saturday, July 20th ar 7:00 pm with side-kick, Bernie Furshpan and starring Joe Franklin Show himself. Joe Franklin started in radio when he was 17, as a record librarian at a New York City's WNEW. Even then, he knew his oddball trivia, and the station soon gave him a 15-minute show dedicated to nostalgia about vaudeville. Franklin started in the new medium of television in 1950, pretty much inventing the talk show. The Joe Franklin Show was the longest-running talk show in TV when it ended in 1990, though it has since been eclipsed in longevity by The Tonight Show. Franklin says he did more than 28,000 episodes of the show, which works out to about 1.9 episodes per day over 40 years, so it must be the longest run for one show with one host. In his own publicity, Franklin says he's the "King of Entertainment, schtick and patter; the last of the organic talk show hosts". He estimates he's interviewed about 300,000 people on the air, including so many stand-up comics he wrote a book about them, Joe Franklin's Encyclopedia of Comedians. Franklin has always been a huge nostalgia and trivia buff, and here's an odd bit of trivia: his best friend in childhood was Bernard Schwartz, who grew up to be Tony Curtis. There is a $25 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
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