{"id":871,"date":"2011-10-12T23:55:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T03:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=871"},"modified":"2020-12-15T21:42:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T02:42:54","slug":"mack-myer-for-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Mack &#038; Myer For Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=1707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RIOTZONE.jpg\" alt=\"RIOTZONE\" width=\"816\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RIOTZONE.jpg 816w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RIOTZONE-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RIOTZONE-783x1024.jpg 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Mack &amp; Myer For Hire<\/em> was a short slapstick TV show from 1963. It was produced by Sandy Howard Productions, for Trans-Lux in NYC. Mickey Deems starred as Mack, and Joey Faye as Myer; both were showbiz veterans, with long careers in nightclubs, burlesque, and legit. Each show was about ten minutes, and was often packaged with other shorts and cartoons; it was meant strictly for kids.<\/p>\n<p>John wrote many of the shows. He remembered that they had a small prop budget, and kept trying to come up with gags for cheap items&#8211;balloons, for example. He also recalled that Margaret Hamilton was cast in one episode, and had no objection to knockabout comedy, as long as she didn&#8217;t have to play a witch.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the episodes have been archived <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xk68pb_mack-and-myer-for-hire-wacky-wizardry_shortfilms\">here<\/a>, if you&#8217;re curious. They&#8217;re not exactly deathless comedy; but do have a period charm, and are remembered fondly by those who watched them as kids. Watch for John&#8217;s screen credit; he&#8217;s listed as &#8220;script editor.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mack &amp; Myer For Hire was a short slapstick TV show from 1963. It was produced by Sandy Howard Productions, for Trans-Lux in NYC. Mickey Deems starred as Mack, and Joey Faye as Myer; both were showbiz veterans, with long careers in nightclubs, burlesque, and legit. Each show was about ten minutes, and was often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4525,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}