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| | A Bob and Ray Retrospective |
 | | Bob and Ray, the radio performance, extends from 1946, their first show on WHDH in Boston, "Matinee with Bob and Ray," to 1986, their final show on NPR, "The Bob and Ray Public Radio Show." It is one of the great oeuvres in American humorous literature. |
 | | Bob and Ray, both serious radio announcers at one time, one day discovered that they could be comedians by intentionally trying and failing to be wonderful when less than nothing was going on. |
 | | To appreciate Bob Elliott's jovially vile Arthur Sturdley, you should have a fairly developed critical judgment of Arthur Godfrey, himself a radio artist of considerable parts and power in the Fifties, a voice stylist, adenoidally resonant, slow and precise in articulation, playing a signature laugh, one slow in sequence, at once genial and obscurely threatening. |
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