{"id":34285,"date":"2021-05-30T00:06:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T05:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=34285"},"modified":"2021-05-29T22:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T03:23:02","slug":"cigarettes-whisky-and-wild-wild-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=34285","title":{"rendered":"Cigarettes, Whisky, and Wild Wild Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a real treat!<br>I recently posted a superb Peter Sellers piece from the early<br>60&#8217;s masterpiece &#8220;Doctor Strangelove&#8221; and I thought I&#8217;d give<br>the late, great Mr. Sellers another go at showing the world<br>what a talent he was.<br>I could go on for days on how much of an influence Jim<br>Henson and his Muppets has had on American culture<br>over the years, the television show was exceptional for <br>many reasons, not the least of which is the way that they<br>would have a very respected artist as a guest host.<br>This slice is from a 1977 Muppet&#8217;s Show starring Peter<br>Sellers as a country type of fellow, singing a song of vice.<br>Singing a song lamenting vice to be more specific.<br>He was a superb actor, a talented singer, drummer of <br>fine repute, and a hell of a comedian.<br>This is wonderful on many levels&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Muppet Songs: Peter Sellers - Cigarettes &amp; Whiskey\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/72mOCLzG9T4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a real treat!I recently posted a superb Peter Sellers piece from the early60&#8217;s masterpiece &#8220;Doctor Strangelove&#8221; and I thought I&#8217;d givethe late, great Mr. Sellers another go at showing the worldwhat a talent he was.I could go on for days on how much of an influence JimHenson and his Muppets has had on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34286,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34285\/revisions\/34286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}