Franklin's show was often parodied by Billy Crystal during the 1984–1985 season of Saturday Night Live, a routine that originated by noted guitarist Arlen Roth doing onstage Joe Franklin routines in the 1970s with sax/keyboard player Timmy Capello in his band.
Joe Franklin, stage name of Joseph Fortgang, American radio talk-show host
Diamond was born in Brooklyn, the son of Allison, an astrologer, and Bob Diamond, a stage manager and director of shows such as The Joe Franklin Show.
In January 2014, Carter interviewed with broadcasting legend Joe Franklin on the Bloomberg Radio network.
His nearly 20 books include Classics of the Silent Screen (1959, attributed to nostalgia maven Joe Franklin but actually written by Everson), The American Movie (1963), The Films of Laurel and Hardy (1967), The Art of W. C. Fields (1967), A Pictorial History of the Western Film (1971), and American Silent Film (1978).
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