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It's not a good day to be a bad guy.
-Eric DravenThe Crow
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 comedian, musician, radio and TV personality
Born In Anaheim,Cal. in the summer of
1926.
Stanley Victor Freberg..Began his show biz career
as a comedy asistant for his uncle..
a not too successful comedy magician.
During his high school years..Mr.Freberg formed
a band.
The band performed at many local functions and
Freberg left for Hollywood,Cal.to find an agent in
the hopes that he could get better bookings for his
troop.
The bookings never came but..The talent agents
did hire Freberg to work as a performer on radio shows.
He appeared on many shows..including the one featuring
his idiol:Jack Benny.
Freberg also did voice overs for many movie cartoons for
Warner Brothers "Looney Tunes" and Walt Disney.
In the early 1950's..Freberg would join forces with fellow
cartoon voice over performer:Daws Butler and former Warner
Brothers animator:Bob Clampet to create and produce the classic
tv puppet show"Time For Beany!".
Together the trio create and manipulated and voice the
puppets.
They also wrote the scripts.
The series went onto become a hit and won many
admirers..including Lionel Barrymore,Dr.Albert Einstein
and Groucho Marx.
Freberg also wrote,produced and hosted his own
comedy series on CBS Radio and later a successful series
of tv comedy specials.
He also wrote,produced and performed many comedy
recordings for Capitol Records.
He continued to do voice overs for cartoons..until
the 1970's.
Where Mr.Freberg left acting to create and produce
radio and tv commercials.
In the 1980's..he would write his memiors"It Hurts
Only When I Laugh!" and he appeared on two tv tributes to
KTLA TV Ch.5 in L.A,Cal. in 1987 and 1997.
In the late 1990's..Mr.Freberg would make his last on
camera tv appearances on one of CBS TV's last fun kids
tv shows"The Weird Al Show".
Despite the talents of both Mr.Freberg and Mr.Yankovic..
"The Weird Al Show"was not a hit and after airing for one
season.
The heads of CBS TV dropped all of their fun kids tv shows
..in favor of creating and producing a saturday morning edition
of"The CBS Early Show".
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