We passed along a couple of stories on the weekend about Fred Allen warming-up his radio audiences. In the television era, that task gener...

Intentions don’t always turn out to be practical or viable, as one discovers when they blog. One of the things I wanted to do on Tralfaz wa...

By all accounts, the best warm-up man in television at one time was Johnny Olson. Everyone thinks of Johnny as an announcer, but he kind o...

“Don’t forget to laugh loud,” cajoled Jack Benny, “that is, if you ever want to get here again.” Benny never said it on his show. He said i...

Johnny Olson was a daytime host on network radio and early television who saw his career somehow take a turn and ended up as an announcer on...

Johnny Olson was (and still is) my favourite game show announcer and I always got a kick out of seeing him on camera. It happened rarely in ...