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LOS ANGELES — Actor Steve Franken, perhaps best remembered as the wealthy and snobbish Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on the early 1960s sitcom “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,” died of cancer here on Aug. 24. He was 80. MSTies will recall him as Henry Maitland in the movie in episode 305- STRANDED […]
CINCINNATI–Neil Armstrong, the soft-spoken engineer who became a global hero when he made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step onto the moon, died Aug. 25 following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. He was 82. MSTies will remember that Joel and the bots paid a tribute to him and the […] Longtime regular Joseph writes:
I noticed in the Rifftrax Manos something I had previously ignored: in the Master’s Valley Lodge there’s bookshelves in every room, and there’s a couple books on each of them. What *do* the MiSTed movie characters read in their spare time, and why? The Master’s Valley Lodge books all […] The awesome Chris Hardwick and Nerdist podcast crew interview Joel and Joel says a couple of little things about the show’s origins that I don’t think I ever heard before.
Joel is this week’s guest on Jerry Seinfeld’s web series Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.
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