When we were
little, and our oldest sister would come home for college vacations, we would
sneak down into the living room after our parents went to bed. There, we would
find our ultra-hip sib watching TV like we’d never seen it before—irreverent shows
like Saturday Night Live and Mary Hartman, Mary Harman.
But our
personal favorite was Fernwood Tonight. Even as kids we could tell that
Martin Mull as Barth Gimble, the bumbling local cable access talk show host, was
brilliant. And, that his even more bafoonish sidekick, Jerry Hubbard played by
Fred Willard was a stroke of comic genius.
Mull has been a
fixture on television ever since on shows like Roseanne and Two and a Half
Men. But we’ve never seen even a spark of that lighting in a bottle that he
had captured on Fernwood.
Still when we hear he’s got something new going on, it always catches our attention. We were especially surprised when we learned that the funnyman is an accomplished artist. His latest exhibit, Split Infinitives, is on display at the Samuel Freeman Gallery through December 18.
You can visit
their website for more information or stop by the gallery at 2525
Michigan Ave., Los Angeles, CA
90033.
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