i loved the interplay between bob and dwayne hickman (whom i loved as doby gillis, with the great frank faylen; 'someday i'm gonna kill that boy.' bob was a very, very funny guy, and hickman had a great jack benny-like deadpan that made me laugh, and an outburst he stole from cummings, i think. his brother was a go-to longtime natural that put the glue in many a movie, many of them great. i remember an episode with charles coburn, with whom bob acted in 'the devil and miss jones' the previous decade: bob was playing it big -- coburn was supposed to be playing the father of some young thing bob was pursuing, and bob finished the lines, exasperated, with something like, 'you're the girl's father!' and coburn replied, 'no i'm not; i'm charles coburn.' it shattered the 'fourth wall' in a very funny way.
Review of The Bob Cummings Show
