{"id":377,"date":"2018-01-03T18:34:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2018-01-05T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:35:44","slug":"garroway-with-bob-and-ray-1952-garroway-with-fred-allen-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/03\/garroway-with-bob-and-ray-1952-garroway-with-fred-allen-1952\/","title":{"rendered":"Garroway with Bob and Ray, 1952\/Garroway with Fred Allen, 1952"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the run-up to the premiere of <em>Today<\/em>, Dave Garroway made guest appearances on some NBC programs. In the process, he got to match wits with some comedy legends. Here&#8217;s Dave paying a visit to Bob and Ray in the week before <em>Today<\/em>&#8216;s premiere:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob &amp; Ray. Over Stocked Warehouse; &quot;Dave Garroway Dummies&quot;.\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qNj9tJMHrd0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s me, but in that sketch Bob looks a lot like Pat Weaver and Ray reminds me of <em>Today<\/em>&#8216;s first newsman, Jim Fleming.<\/p>\n<p>Another preserved bit captures Dave&#8217;s January 6, 1952 visit to Fred Allen&#8217;s program. It&#8217;s a real treat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Db9YFL0htlg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Db9YFL0htlg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on a very special post for the 14th, to commemorate that first morning. In the meantime, enjoy the clips!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the run-up to the premiere of Today, Dave Garroway made guest appearances on some NBC programs. In the process, he got to match wits with some comedy legends. Here&#8217;s Dave paying a visit to Bob and Ray in the week before Today&#8216;s premiere: Maybe it&#8217;s me, but in that sketch Bob looks a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/03\/garroway-with-bob-and-ray-1952-garroway-with-fred-allen-1952\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Garroway with Bob and Ray, 1952\/Garroway with Fred Allen, 1952&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38,29,10,33,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-nbc-people","category-today","category-video","category-wide-wide-web"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}