Super dave

Accident-prone stuntman Dave Osborne stumbles through various feats at his Super Dave Compound and plays host to celebrity guests. There are no TV airings over the next 14 days. Add it to your Watchlist to receive updates and availability notifications, super dave. Close Ad.

If you can help us with this wiki please sign up and help us! Super Dave Osborne is a character created and played by the late comedian Bob Einstein. Einstein's comedic depiction is of a naive but optimistic stuntman who frequently appears injured when his stunts go spectacularly wrong. Super Dave is billed as an "accomplished" stuntman, though he rarely succeeds when performing the stunts depicted on-screen. Typically the character will perform outrageous daredevil stunts which often go disastrously awry and result in the appearance of grievous bodily injury. These include such mishaps as riding inside the hub of a giant yo-yo suspended from a crane the yo-yo broke free of its string and rolled off a cliff into a ravine and being flung by a catapult inside a giant football the catapult malfunctioned and "spiked" the football instead of throwing it.

Super dave

Battered and abused stuntman Super Dave Osborne gets his own nighttime talk show. In between interviews Osborne, with the help of his partner and promoter, Fuji, performs his classic stunts Read all Battered and abused stuntman Super Dave Osborne gets his own nighttime talk show. In between interviews Osborne, with the help of his partner and promoter, Fuji, performs his classic stunts that never quite seem to go as planned. Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Episode guide. Super Dave TV Series — 30m. Creators Allan Blye Bob Einstein.

Trademark components of the Super Dave character include his frequent thumbs-ups, and his many uniforms - most of which include red, white and blue, yellow stars, and stripes, super dave, and are reminiscent of those worn by Evel Knievel as he is a parody of him. Runtime 30 minutes. The super dave consisted of his standing layladeline a hole in the ground reciting "balloon ball" as super dave repetitive mantra which was supposed to imbue him with the ability to not be harmed by anything, as a mobile piledriver rammed the top of his head.

At some point during my childhood, I decided that few things were funnier than the sight of an obvious stunt dummy being put through some kind of unspeakable physical horror in a piece of filmed entertainment. Bob Einstein, who died on Wednesday, of cancer, at the age of seventy-six, was the king of the dummy gag. The only thing off was his voice, which was distinctively pinched, as though he were always in the middle of a terrible cold. Yet he brought to each doomed physical challenge a grand showmanship and inflated self-regard. Comedy was the family business. And he was the older brother of Albert Brooks, who changed his last name when he was nineteen. Whereas Brooks was precise and cerebral, Einstein appeared merely broad and goofy, the sunny jock.

Battered and abused stuntman Super Dave Osborne gets his own nighttime talk show. In between interviews Osborne, with the help of his partner and promoter, Fuji, performs his classic stunts Read all Battered and abused stuntman Super Dave Osborne gets his own nighttime talk show. In between interviews Osborne, with the help of his partner and promoter, Fuji, performs his classic stunts that never quite seem to go as planned. Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Episode guide. Super Dave TV Series — 30m.

Super dave

Super Dave Osborne is a character created and played by the late comedian Bob Einstein. Super Dave is billed as an "accomplished" stuntman, though he rarely succeeds when performing his elaborate stunts. Typically the character will perform outrageous daredevil stunts which often go disastrously awry and result in the appearance of grievous bodily injury. These include such mishaps as being knocked off the top of the CN Tower , in Toronto, after determining it was too windy to do a cabled jump or being run over by a steamroller after failing to escape from a locked trunk.

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His signature logo, a drawing of his head in a crash helmet directly atop a pair of crushed silver boots with no visible body, was from an iconic early sketch, "Balloon Ball". Nurse Jackie 7 Seasons. Start a Wiki. Even for kids it was a bit too silly. In the first season, in , the compound was often referred to as the "stunt compound" or "Super Dave Complex". Bob is survived by his wife and partner of over 40 years, Roberta Einstein, his daughter Erin Einstein Dale, son-in-law Andrew Dale and his beloved grandchildren Ethan and Zoe. After such a mishap, Super Dave would usually appear torn apart, stretched, or otherwise injured. By Ariel Levy. Whereas his brother satirized the cultural desolation of the eighties as a forlorn outsider, Einstein mocked it by inhabiting its greatest excesses. Super Dave Osborne.

Like a human cartoon, Osborne's bravado would usually get him maimed.

Episode guide. Current Wiki. Retrieved O'Connor There are a lot of other late night surrealist shows such as Eric Andre show. Create account. Sign In Sign In. Runtime 30 minutes. When pulled out of the hole, he was as his eventual logo depicted: his helmeted head sitting directly atop his running shoes, the whole of his body supposedly compressed between shoes and neck "…I've got my balls in my throat. Retrieved February 23, These include such mishaps as being knocked off the top of the CN Tower , in Toronto, after determining it was too windy to do a cabled jump or being run over by a steamroller after failing to escape from a locked trunk. Naked Wines has a Great Offer.