Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-16 (Sunday)

super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

. . .

Wonder how many of the original cast are still alive anyway -- Chase,
Curtin, Lorraine Newman, Dan Ackroyd, Garrett Morris? I would've
guessed Morris had passed on by now since I never see him in anything
but there he was last night.

I've always said even though Morris didn't get as much screen time as
Chase and a few others he was responsible for some of the most
hilarious bits in the show (he says he had to "fight to get people to
write for me" in a short article in the new Time).

Of the original cast, Morris was the only one actually ready from prime
time. He just turned 88 February 1. He'd been in shoe biz for close to
two decades before the first season, and of course could sing.

I loved his character interpretting for the deaf. That gag was not PC.

He played the "12 year old boy" George Jefferson thought he'd been
supporting for years.