who is ray jay johnson?
Grand Moff Tarkin
who the hell is that guy? please explain the joke to me
dan kushner
DOKOLO
>who the hell is that guy? please explain the joke to me
Ray Jay Johnson was a horrible comdian(liberal use of the word)
who had an aweful bit that went something like:" You can call be Ray or you can
Jay but you dont have to call me Ray Jay." He appeared in a Miller Lite
commercial over a decade ago. Krusty was half right when he said that got old
fast. It actually was stale right away.
Denofspice
Big in the seventies, appeared on Carol Burnette, Sonny and Cher, etc. Gong
Show, too.
Gil Neal is at Murk...@aol.com. Yer Mutha!!!!!!
natu...@yahoo.com
In article <6alm7v$ik9$1...@netnews.upenn.edu>,
dkus...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Grand Moff Tarkin) wrote:
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>
> who the hell is that guy? please explain the joke to me
In the 70s (early 80s?) he was an old guy who did beer commercials
(Budweiser?). His schtick was *so* not funny. He would drone on not
letting anyone else speak . . . "My name is Raymond J. Johnson Junior.
But you can call me Ray, or you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ,
.. . ." And so on, and so on. So if you remember those ads you can
understand why Gabbo was disappointed.
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Roycer
natu...@yahoo.com wrote in message
>In article (Grand Moff Tarkin) wrote:
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>> who the hell is that guy? please explain the joke to me
>
>In the 70s (early 80s?) he was an old guy who did beer commercials
>(Budweiser?). His schtick was *so* not funny. He would drone on not
>letting anyone else speak . . . "My name is Raymond J. Johnson Junior.
>But you can call me Ray, or you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ,
>.. . ." And so on, and so on. So if you remember those ads you can
>understand why Gabbo was disappointed.
Actually, those beer commercials were the pinnacle of his career. Before
that, I had heard of him, and I believe actually seen him, on the Tonight
Show w/Johnny Carson. And a couple of really stupid comedy shows on
networks. I don't remember for sure, but I may even have seen him earlier
yet on an episode of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (God, I'm old!).
Daniel L. Dreibelbis
comedy show starring David Steinberg (famous Canadian comedian -
"Richard Nixon has a face like a foot" - who would later be one of the
people behind Seinfeld) that in some ways resembled the Larry Saunders
Show - it got cancelled very quickly; RJJJ also appeared in Redd Foxx's
controversial and short-lived variety hour on NBC in the 1970s.
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HOMEDADDY1
In the 70's there was a "comedian" named Ray j Johnson,
he had a bit that went kind of like this: when some one saied his name he would
say," You can call me Ray, You can call me Jay, you can call me Ray Jay, or you
can call me Ray Jay J..but you doesn't have to call me Johnson!" you had to be
there.
T-Rex
In article <19980128045...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
denof...@aol.com (Denofspice) wrote:
> >>who the hell is that guy? please explain the joke to me
> >
> >Ray Jay Johnson was a horrible comdian(liberal use of the word)
> >who had an aweful bit that went something like:" You can call be Ray or you
> >can
> >Jay but you dont have to call me Ray Jay." He appeared in a Miller Lite
> >commercial over a decade ago. Krusty was half right when he said that got
> >old
> >fast. It actually was stale right away.
>
> Big in the seventies, appeared on Carol Burnette, Sonny and Cher, etc. Gong
> Show, too.
> Gil Neal is at Murk...@aol.com. Yer Mutha!!!!!!
Just a fine point of clarification: "...but ya doesn't have ta call me
'Johnson'"
BadMan
The guy was alos in an Abbot and Costello film or two. I think it was
the movie where they joined the Navy. Good luck finding it but he was
doing the same schtick then. 1940s 50s maybe?
BadMan
On 29 Jan 98 05:34:55 GMT, dre...@idirect.com (Daniel L. Dreibelbis)
wrote:
>On 28 Jan 1998 13:04:05, "Roycer" wrote:
>>
>>natu...@yahoo.com wrote in message
>>>In article (Grand Moff Tarkin) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> who the hell is that guy? please explain the joke to me
>>>
>>>In the 70s (early 80s?) he was an old guy who did beer commercials
>>>(Budweiser?). His schtick was *so* not funny. He would drone on not
>>>letting anyone else speak . . . "My name is Raymond J. Johnson Junior.
>>>But you can call me Ray, or you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ,
>>>.. . ." And so on, and so on. So if you remember those ads you can
>>>understand why Gabbo was disappointed.
>>
>>Actually, those beer commercials were the pinnacle of his career. Before
>>that, I had heard of him, and I believe actually seen him, on the Tonight
>>Show w/Johnny Carson. And a couple of really stupid comedy shows on
>>networks. I don't remember for sure, but I may even have seen him earlier
>>yet on an episode of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (God, I'm old!).
>>
> ah yes, THAT guy. He was also a regular character on a half-hour
>comedy show starring David Steinberg (famous Canadian comedian -
>"Richard Nixon has a face like a foot" - who would later be one of the
>people behind Seinfeld) that in some ways resembled the Larry Saunders
>Show - it got cancelled very quickly; RJJJ also appeared in Redd Foxx's
>controversial and short-lived variety hour on NBC in the 1970s.
>
>//////////////////////Daniel L. Dreibelbis//////////////////////
>ST/TT/Falcon/8-bit Vice President, Toronto Atari Federation (TAF)
> Thorn in the side of all net.twits
> email: dre...@idirect.com
>///////////////"And yet, the Fuji Lives!" ///////////////////
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CVPlummer
>who the hell is that guy? please explain the joke to me
>
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Hey.. I think it is time for the Simpsons to unearth another 70's bad memory-
Rudy Ray Moore (Dolomite) ha!
john
CVPlummer wrote:
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> >who the hell is that guy? please explain the joke to me
> >
> >dan kushner
him. " You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me
Ray Jay, or you can call me R.J...... but you doesn't have to call me
Johnson.
It was funny for about 1 second.
just like Krusty said.
Richard Schultz
natu...@yahoo.com wrote:
: In article <6alm7v$ik9$1...@netnews.upenn.edu>,
: dkus...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Grand Moff Tarkin) wrote:
: > who the hell is that guy? please explain the joke to me
: In the 70s (early 80s?) he was an old guy who did beer commercials
: (Budweiser?). His schtick was *so* not funny.
Actually, he got his start on one of the 1970's comedy-variety shows.
My initial reaction is to say "Burns & Schreiber," but there were so
many of them that it's hard to remember after all these years -- does
anyone remember Half the George Kirby Hour? The Glenn Campbell Show?
Flip Wilson? -- that I could easily be way off on that one.
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"You can call me Ray or you call me Jay or you can call me Ray Jay ......" hahaha
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> who the hell is that guy? please explain the joke to me
>
Not a deep catalog, but it must have made an impression on Bob Dylan
as can be heard in the
lyrics of “Gotta Serve Somebody”
[a song by Bob Dylan from his 1979 studio album Slow Train Coming]:
You may call me Terry, you may call me Timmy
You may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy
You may call me R.J., you may call me Ray
You may call me anything but no matter what you say
Still, you're gonna have to serve somebody
….
FWIW!
