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Metromix Tampa Bay

Comedian Dale Jones

"Lay your head down!"

By: Danielle Hope Hier
Special to Metromix
January 4, 2010

While most kids I knew were busy watching reruns of the Brady Bunch, I grew up on old black and white comedies like His Gal Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken with Don Knotts.  What can I say?  My parents had me - by accident - later in life, and I was raised on old-style comedy.  Back then, the comic dialog wasn't "in your face obvious" but quick and subdued.  If you weren't paying attention, you'd miss the punchline.  By the same token, the slapstick stylings of Charlie Chaplin and Lou Costello were impossible to ignore.
 
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