Corny? Maybe. Dated?, Certainly. Funny?, I laughed. Isn't that what Ms. Brice was all about? She made people laugh with her and she had talent. Corny? yeah, but isn't that because we've become so jaded that unless we're hearing 4-letter words, we don't think anything is funny. True comedy starts with pain not attitude.
Watch Brice's "It's Gorgeous to be Graceful", then Streisand's "The Swan", the Funny Girl number loosely based on it. I doubt you could then say that Brice is funny & Streisand not. Brice epitomised "low comedy" - obvious jokes and loads of mugging - that was right for her work in burlesque and later on radio. Streisand's renditions of similar routines is actually more subtle and sophisticated, necessarily so because she was working on film in cinemascope. One is not better than the other.
What you have to realize about the movie "Funny Girl," is that it is very loosely based on the life of Fanny Brice. There is very little historic fact used in the movie. Much "creative liscense " is used in this version of Brice's life.
Priceless. There's something about Fanny Brice in her more uninhibited moments that carries you into some brilliantly demented parallel universe. Lucille Ball had a similar gift, but Fanny could sing!
@Bobolink03 "The funniest thing you have ever seen"? Seriously? In the world of funny things, this get a very low rating. Corny is more apt a description.
Corny? Maybe. Dated?, Certainly. Funny?, I laughed. Isn't that what Ms. Brice was all about? She made people laugh with her and she had talent. Corny? yeah, but isn't that because we've become so jaded that unless we're hearing 4-letter words, we don't think anything is funny. True comedy starts with pain not attitude.
Handiman544 6 months ago
Theres only on Fanny!! She was great!
Northshoreman1 6 months ago
Watch Brice's "It's Gorgeous to be Graceful", then Streisand's "The Swan", the Funny Girl number loosely based on it. I doubt you could then say that Brice is funny & Streisand not. Brice epitomised "low comedy" - obvious jokes and loads of mugging - that was right for her work in burlesque and later on radio. Streisand's renditions of similar routines is actually more subtle and sophisticated, necessarily so because she was working on film in cinemascope. One is not better than the other.
ozvoyager 10 months ago
What you have to realize about the movie "Funny Girl," is that it is very loosely based on the life of Fanny Brice. There is very little historic fact used in the movie. Much "creative liscense " is used in this version of Brice's life.
RobNLynchburgVA 1 year ago
One of my best memories as a child was listening to Fanny Brice as "Baby Snooks" on the radio. What a great talent.
DonsChocolate 1 year ago
I love this! She does have a really great voice. <3
97sweeney10 2 years ago
Talinted but insaine!!!
Streisand1HorseLover 2 years ago
Priceless. There's something about Fanny Brice in her more uninhibited moments that carries you into some brilliantly demented parallel universe. Lucille Ball had a similar gift, but Fanny could sing!
SirCyrano 2 years ago
She was brilliant! Bravo Fanny!
janicesoprano 3 years ago
woow!!
diva1215 3 years ago
Hilarious! :)
ebronken 3 years ago
Diva.....
motorcitymiguel 3 years ago
MAJOR lol!
MedicalExaminersRule 4 years ago
Terrific! Is this from a film?
eddie1967 4 years ago
Yes, its called "Be Yourself" and is available on DVD
Bobolink03 4 years ago 2
The funniest thing I have ever seen.. wonderful! Makes Streisand look unfunny.
Bobolink03 4 years ago 6
Streisand has a beautiful voice, but she does not have Fanny Brice's sense of old comedy timing and technique, learned the hard way in vaudeville.
Caocao8888 4 years ago 10
Babs IS unfunny... really unfunny... in fact... well, never mind.
crabtree35 3 years ago
@crabtree35 Sticks and stones.... can't compare one talent to another....
Gaygarious 1 year ago
@Bobolink03 Bite your tongue...no it doesn't.
freshair345 1 year ago
@Bobolink03 "The funniest thing you have ever seen"? Seriously? In the world of funny things, this get a very low rating. Corny is more apt a description.
beentheredonethatb4 11 months ago
I was searching varieties of Minnie Driver as Carlotta in "POTO," & up pops Fanny Brice!
And she's lampooning a prima donna in Yiddish to boot!
Cool!
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freddykaren 4 years ago
haha amazing!
the more videos of Fanny I watch, the more I love Streisand's performances as FB.
thanks for the video!
akajudy 4 years ago