Since There

isn't anything worth a damn to link or write about, I thought I'd put this link of a video of the first episode of the Joan Davis television comedy, I Married Joan, with Jim Backus as her husband, Judge Brad Stevens.

The show wasn't that bad, sometimes it was quite funny, although it didn't have the consistently good writing I Love Lucy had:


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Another episode, "Bad Boy," can be found here.

I Still Feel

like shit, so I am not going to write profound thoughts today. I was thinking about Joan Davis, who was undeniably talented, and I came across this video with co-star Eddie Cantor, with whom she supposedly had an extramarital affair at one time:



How sad younger people by large have no appreciation of the talent that's come before them.

While some panned Davis' television series, I Married Joan, as some kind of I Love Lucy ripoff, it was a better show than I had expected it to be. I can't describe her humor, which was similar to Ball's, and yet it wasn't identical at all.

Davis, of course, died at the young age of 53 in 1961. She had heart problems. Worse still, her only child, Beverly Wills, died two years later in a fire. Not only did Wills die, but both of her sons and her grandmother (Joan's mother) died. In other words, Davis' family was completely wiped out in the fire. Davis' ex-husband, Si Wills, died in 1977, I believe.

I found this video featuring the forgotten comic Joan Davis very funny:




It was from a 1958 appearance on The Dinah Shore Show.