STAN FREBERG HERE...The Great (???) Bob and Ray Practical Joke
Stan Freberg here. The great comedy team Bob and Ray were friends of mine. I have a funny story about what they once did to me as a practical joke, after this. [:60 SPOT BREAK]
Freberg here. Once, my friends Bob and Ray, who did a morning radio show in New York, got a hold of my home phone number and called me in California at 5 in the morning. I groggily picked up the phone. "Hello?"
"Hi, Stan, this is Bob and Ray, all of Manhattan is waiting for you to say something funny!" I said, "Do you guys know what time it is?" They said, "'Do you guys know what time it is,' Ha-haaa, didn't we tell you Freberg was a hilarious guy? As a matter of fact, Stan, the old clock on the wall says 8 a.m." I said, "No, it's 5 a.m. on the West Coast, there's a 3-hour difference." Bob said, "Ray, have you ever heard of a time difference of 3 hours?" I hung up, really irritated.
Would you believe the next morning there was my 5:00 wake-up call from Bob and Ray! And all of New York listened to this dubious gag of waking Freberg out of a sound sleep.
The third morning, I set the alarm for 4:00, got up, made coffee, wrote a page of jokes, and sat by the phone. You know what? They never called.
Years later, when Bob and Ray and myself appeared on a TV comedy special, I told them about how I was all ready for them on the third morning. "Why didn't you call me?" I asked.
Ray smiled. "Oh, we knew you'd be all ready for us the third morning. That's why we never called back, heh-heh."
Some joke, eh? I always thought they were hilarious when they weren't waking me up.
Stan Freberg here.
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