America 2-Night | CARL REINER | June 12, 1978 | Fred Willard, Martin Mull | Talk Show | S1.E46

Описание: America 2-Night | CARL REINER | June 12, 1978 | Fred Willard, Martin Mull | Talk Show | S1.E46



S1.E46 ∙ Carl Reiner

Mon, Jun 12, 1978

Jerry does commercial for "Jean's House of Cakes;" Carl Reiner talks about the times he subbed as a host for talk shows; Happy and the Mirth-Makers perform the song "Marie;" Happy tells Carl that he only has one nostril.


Satirizing 1970s talk shows, the series follows a small-town program that gains national attention, with celebrity guests often mocking their own public images through its offbeat humor.

America 2 Night is the continuation of the talk-show parody series Fernwood 2 Night, broadcast weeknights from April to July 1978. As on Fernwood, Martin Mull portrayed host Barth Gimble and Fred Willard appeared as sidekick/announcer Jerry Hubbard. Frank De Vol also returned as bandleader Happy Kyne.

The setting of the show was moved from the fictional Fernwood, Ohio, to the fictional "Quad-City" area of Alta Coma, El Tijo, Alta Luna and the City of Merchandise in Southern California. According to Hubbard's announcement at the beginning of every show, Alta Coma was "the unfinished furniture capital of the world". This new Southern California setting made it more plausible for celebrities to appear on the show as themselves.[1] Among the celebrities who appeared as guests were Charlton Heston, Vincent Price, Carol Burnett, Burt Lancaster, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Paul Lynde, Rita Moreno, Rob Reiner, Peter Frampton, Mark Hamill, Gary Coleman, Sherman Hemsley, Billy Crystal, Anne Murray, Lou Rawls and José Feliciano. In the final episode, Mull and Willard guested as themselves.

America 2 Night was broadcast on the fictional UBS network, located on the UBS Broadcast Mall, whose logo featured an ear (a spoof of the CBS "Eye" logo) and whose slogan was "We put U before the BS".

Repeats of America 2 Night were broadcast on Nick at Nite from 1990 to 1993 and TV Land in 2002. The program has never been officially released on home video in any format.