Andy Griffith, In Memoriam: "What It Was Was Football"

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Edmund StAustell

12 жыл бұрын

Here is the late, great Andy Griffith in one of his earliest and most popular routines.

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@Redmenace96 2 күн бұрын

Brilliant performer. The little asides and phrases are pure gold. There are so many connections to the past, don't think that youth of today would find this funny.

@Spider_7_7 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant! Andy Griffith was pure comedy gold.

@johnfrawley7020 5 жыл бұрын

Mr. Griffith was a silver lining in television's Golden Age.

@videonut11 3 жыл бұрын

Andy Griffith is still an American treasure.

@carlostravis8223 2 жыл бұрын

one of the greatest comedy sketches of all time this put Andy on the map this is so hilarious love it ,🤗🤗🤗🤗

@Mama-Ames 5 жыл бұрын

OH how I miss you Mr. Griffith. I SO long for the days of Andy, Barney, Opie, Aunt Bee, Floyd, Gomer, Otis & Mayberry... your love, warmth & kindness, your friendship, your strong sense of family, faith & community. And of course... the endless smiles that YOU & ALL of Mayberry NEVER FAILED to put on my face. Each of you have my eternal, heartfelt gratitude. You will never be forgotten. Rest peacefully dear friends.🙏💕

@mangot589 4 жыл бұрын

Mama Ames Agree. Such a nice, sweet show. I watch it all the time. I’m watching it now😉. No angst, social commentary, no “very special” episodes. Pure escapism.

@JD-ij5fi 3 жыл бұрын

Thelma Lou & Helen

@pamelanicol2401 3 жыл бұрын

Grew up watching my friends In Mayberry. Loved them all 💗

@lemonjay2076 2 жыл бұрын

I remember i had this 45 record as a young child. ❤️

@CurzonRoad 12 жыл бұрын

Great recording.... the passing of an era... an age!

@byronp2311 3 жыл бұрын

My uncle had this album, way back in the day (I think it is as old as I am, if not older). I just adored it. Parts of this album actually made it into The Andy Griffith Show

@garyhudson5445 2 жыл бұрын

I had that record back in the 50's when I was a kid.

@Clearanceman2 4 жыл бұрын

He was brilliant.

@dr_robrt6454 10 жыл бұрын

... Dad and Mother had "Just For Laughs" album of Andy. I learned the entire football story word for word.What a GREAT man he was. Thanks so very much Edmund for sharing!

@doc25000 11 жыл бұрын

Just a wonderful story teller & a wonderful human being.... The best shows ever on tv STILL!! No 1 will top The Andy Griffith Show....

@RR31982 3 жыл бұрын

It’s my favorite show of all time

@moteleyes2 2 жыл бұрын

a classic!!! love Andy. :)

@TickedOffPriest 4 жыл бұрын

Best description of football ever!

@lancer525 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I don't know.... Carlin did a pretty good comparison of Football with Baseball...

@justafanintexas7913 2 жыл бұрын

Too bad he didn't write it.

@lancer525 2 жыл бұрын

@@justafanintexas7913 Source? Proof? Independently-verifiable evidence? I'll wait...

@justafanintexas7913 2 жыл бұрын

@@lancer525 - You mean you can't do research?????? Griffith's routine was almost verbatim from an old vaudeville routine performed years earlier and there are tons of articles about it. It is said that Griffith "heard it and was inspired by it."

@blackholeentry3489 2 жыл бұрын

@@justafanintexas7913 Pretty much sums up my REAL view of football....what a Neandertal game. Have NEVER watched a game in my entire life....and I'm 81.

@EdmundStAustell 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much; yes, he was amazing!

@Bronisliva 12 жыл бұрын

Much loved, much missed.

@RogerNeil 2 ай бұрын

This feels so weird hearing a young Andy Griffith or any young celebrity BEFORE they became famous

@marilynnjefferson8525 3 жыл бұрын

Just came across this for the first time, but I remember most of it verbatim from 50-plus years ago. Thank for making my day. It’s still as funny to me now as it was then. Could you please find and post Andy’s “Little Bo Peep”.

@kathrynschultz1634 Жыл бұрын

For me it’s been 70 years since I heard it on our 45 record.

@jonebohl5161 5 жыл бұрын

There's a clip on you tube where Andy tells that he made up this great piece while driving his car to work! That's making good use of your time!

@garynaegelimusic101 5 жыл бұрын

love it !!

@tomf429 5 ай бұрын

I play in a bluegrass band. When we do the song Dooley, we always begin it with “just jump in sheriff and hang on”. Only the old timers, like me, understand where that comes from.

@nicholaspowell7931 10 ай бұрын

this and who is on first are great sketches

@reded1905 6 ай бұрын

Funniest comedy routines of all time; No. 1 -Who's On First (Abbott and Costello) No. 2 - this one. Andy Griffith was a true entertainment giant.

@johnnieparker4465 Жыл бұрын

Andy Griffith Graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill

@alysonrye7586 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, Lord! That takes me back a lifetime ago, to simpler times and innocent laughter. We didn’t have all the automation we have now, no cell phones or tablets for people to be entranced with. We paid attention to each other.

@jeanneluddeni3121 3 жыл бұрын

I have this on a 45 record Im rolling in the aisles so funny and no cussing imagine that

@brendalambert5764 3 жыл бұрын

Andy Griffith, I Love Lucy, George Burns and Gracie Allen Show ...they were comedy and the number one comedians!

@user-be4zl8nx9q 4 ай бұрын

Yeah that's my understanding of football.

@kylerasco6020 Жыл бұрын

He’s still the man!

@EdmundStAustell 12 жыл бұрын

Yes, in his long career, he had a chance to experience a sea-change in American culture; Mayberry to Woodstock and beyond.

@EdmundStAustell 12 жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed, exactly. A real American institution.

@timtruett5184 10 ай бұрын

I have reason to believe that this story originated with Samuel McCullough Whitesell (my grandfather) in the 1940s. I heard several of his stories in this same style, and one of them was about football. I heard that some of his stories appeared in the Radford College student newspaper in Radford Virginia, but I only saw the original copies in his attic.

@ChristwatchJR 4 жыл бұрын

Big part of my childhood. Had it on a 45.

@tendraftsdeep 4 жыл бұрын

Me too!!!

@jamesnance2757 3 жыл бұрын

Try telling kids now you got a 45 of it and they're look at you like you're crazy, mention Andy Griffith and you'll get a real confused look!

@jasonburrell3508 3 жыл бұрын

What's a 45?

@joesmith6990 3 жыл бұрын

Me too, still do

@billpojunis6216 3 жыл бұрын

I used to have a 78 recording of this, the record said the following: "What it Was, it was a football game" by "The Duke of Paducah" This was 70 years ago, when I lived in Baltimore, MD.

@rabbidcow2135 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I'm only 45 and amazed at finding things from my childhood. I'm so glad you can go mine the tube and find some gems.

@kyodj5 4 жыл бұрын

I was born in '81, so way after this. However, I luckily got to grow up on this, and others, on my mother's '45s. This one made her cry laughing every time. Me too basically.

@jeannejordan8789 3 жыл бұрын

He is missed. My brother had him for his English teacher.

@gregofthelake 3 ай бұрын

My dad used to talk about this routine and one day we found it on a 45 and bought it. It is so wonderfully funny and reminds me of my dad whenever I listen to it. I really love Andy adding the I did, they did, it was, etc.. Makes it sounds like a conversation with a group of friends sitting on a porch.

@joeanderson9852 Жыл бұрын

❤❤

@jasonburrell3508 3 жыл бұрын

This is awesome! Can't believe I've never herd it!

@cathydavenport7819 Жыл бұрын

Ahhh...memories! Lol.

@jamisonirish 12 жыл бұрын

classic comedy

@nspg4025 Жыл бұрын

O…M…G…😂😂😂

@bobbydowns6245 5 жыл бұрын

Not one word of profanity. Just great comedy.

@walker1984 4 жыл бұрын

Comedy doesn't necessarily have to be raunchy to be good. It's like Will Smith's rapping. You don't have to cuss to make a hit rap track. Same thing applies here.

@brianjaynes3366 9 ай бұрын

Who cares? Either way, they are just words.