"Strictly for Laffs" is a pilot episode for a television series that was never picked up by any of the networks. I found it on YouTube...where there are quite a few old pilots waiting to be discovered.
The show consists of the host, Dave Barry (no relation to the writer), sitting down with various B and C-list comics and they tell jokes. It's a very simple sort of show and the likes of Sid Melton, Rose Marie, Alan Reed and Moe Howard are among the MANY guests. Had the show been approved, perhaps they would have only had a roundtable with Barry and three comics...but in this pilot, the three comics keeps changing throughout the show.
So is it any good? At times, it is humorous...but frankly the comics on the show just weren't all that funny. Had they been funnier and more familiar, I am pretty sure the show would have been better received. As if was, it seemed like they scoured the more lowly resorts and venues to find these guys.
