News RIP Fred Willard

A quick follow-up to my last - I wonder if Willard's pilot was a response to NBC's Quark which first aired it's pilot in May of '77? (The series later ran from February-April 1978). All due respect to the late Mr. Willard, but compared to the above offering, Quark was the funnier effort, IMO.

 

And the sequel.

 

Rest In Peace.

 

Watching the pilot to Fernwood Tonight.

Fred looks so young.

Martin Mull looks the same.

 

Fred Willard played the mayor in Roxanne, and was one of the voice actors for Wall-E.

 

actually his Wall-E appearance was live action

 

You wanna see really young Fred Willard? Check out these clips of him and fellow member of the comedy troupe Ace Trucking Company on the Vegas Vampire show and the Tonight Show.

 

^Even better, he was on an episode of Get Smart in 1968. The fourth season.

 

Space Force was pretty terrible. It's effectively The Phil Silvers Show in space minus being, you know, actually funny.