Jonathan Winters And His Purple Owl

November, 1955

If you watch TV, and we don't necessarily recommend this as a general thing, you've probably already become acquainted with Jonathan Winters, a splendid young comic with a love of the ridiculous and an incredible arsenal of voices and vocal sound effects.Jonathan, who spent a good deal of the past summer filling in for George Gobel on a program called And Here's The Show, boasts a career which closely parallels Gobel's own. Both Gobel and Winters won initial recognition from other performers, bo...

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