"Schmoe" checks out.
Peter Boyle has died. Well known as the Ray's dad in "Everybody Loves Raymond", and for roles in movies like "Taxi Driver" and as Frankenstein's monster in "Young Frankenstein", to me, he will always remain "Schmoe".
My first encounter with Peter Boyle was in the pages of MAD Super Special #18 from 1975, where they featured a parody of his movie "Joe", called "Schmoe". The comic, reprinted from 1971, was full of jokes about hippies, Vietnam, Spiro Agnew - stuff that made sense when written, some of which was already dated by 1975, and little of which was fully grasped by this 10 year old reader. Even so, I always loved the MAD stuff, and still crack up when I see certain movies and characters they parodied. Like "Schmoe".
My first encounter with Peter Boyle was in the pages of MAD Super Special #18 from 1975, where they featured a parody of his movie "Joe", called "Schmoe". The comic, reprinted from 1971, was full of jokes about hippies, Vietnam, Spiro Agnew - stuff that made sense when written, some of which was already dated by 1975, and little of which was fully grasped by this 10 year old reader. Even so, I always loved the MAD stuff, and still crack up when I see certain movies and characters they parodied. Like "Schmoe".
posted by Steve at 12/13/2006 04:59:00 PM
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And let's not forget that his best man was John Lennon, or the other way around.
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