Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour

Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour is an American half-hour television variety show that ran on ABC-TV on Thursday nights at 7:30 p.m. from January 22, 1970 to April 16, 1970.

Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour
GenreComedy
Directed byMark Goode
Starring
Country of originUnited States
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13
Production
Executive producer(s)
Producer(s)
Editor(s)
  • Richard F. Wilson
  • Emil Zvarich
Running time30 min
Production company(s)
  • Carruthers Company
  • Picky Video
  • ABC
DistributorABC
Release
Original networkABC
Audio formatMonaural
Original releaseJanuary 22 (1970-01-22) –
April 16, 1970 (1970-04-16)

The star was Pat Paulsen, who ran for the office of President of the United States in 1968. Paulsen had been a regular on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Jean Byron was a semi-regular. Writers included Steve Martin.

Pauslen often spoofed Then Came Bronson and played a science teacher. Guest stars included Hubert Humphrey, Angie Dickinson, Tiny Tim, Miss Vickie, Mike Connors, Dan Blocker, Henry Fonda, Tommy Smothers, Don Rickles, Don Adams, Carl Betz, the animated Daffy Duck and Foghorn Leghorn and Joey Heatherton. On the April 9, 1970 episode, Paulsen sang the song "Did I Ever Really Live?", which was from his Mercury record album, Live at the Ice House.

The show was cancelled after 13 episodes.

MPI put the entire series out on DVD in 2009. More recently the series has been added to the Amazon Prime Video lineup

References
    • TV.COM
    • MPI DVD sleeve notes
    • TV GUIDE, 1970 issues
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