{"id":42577,"date":"2022-10-06T00:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T05:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=42577"},"modified":"2022-10-06T05:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T10:59:47","slug":"we-wouldve-come-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=42577","title":{"rendered":"We Would&#8217;ve Come Earlier&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but your husband wasn&#8217;t dead then.<br>A classic scene from a very short lived television show<br>that starred the late, great Leslie Nielsen.<br>He was a gifted actor, blessed with leading man good looks<br>and some decent thespian ability he was doing pretty good <br>as a serious role player when he relaunched his career with<br>comedy as a major theme in his movies.<br>And it took off, big time.<br>This is from &#8220;Police Squad&#8221; a 1982 television parody that<br>lasted for only six episodes but spun off some really funny<br>movies that did pretty well at the box office.<br>His character was Frank Drebin, a hard boiled police<br>detective with serious comprehension issues. <br>He had a knack for silly puns, misunderstanding simple<br>dialogue, and going off on a humorous tangent.<br>And for lamenting old roommates apparently&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"*Police Squad*\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7JuierqRy9A?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\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>but your husband wasn&#8217;t dead then.A classic scene from a very short lived television showthat starred the late, great Leslie Nielsen.He was a gifted actor, blessed with leading man good looksand some decent thespian ability he was doing pretty good as a serious role player when he relaunched his career withcomedy as a major theme [&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-42577","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\/42577","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=42577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42578,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42577\/revisions\/42578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}