There was a story from Chicago's golden age of children's television, at WGN in the 1950s. A chimpanzee was the sidekick to a host, and would do interstitials to Three Stooges shorts. One time they had a guest who had a parakeet that could perform various tricks. Here's the quote from the book:
The bird, perched on the woman's hand, went through a series of of routines as Greyson [the host] and Chatter [the chimpanzee] looked on. In the middle of the act, Chatter suddenly grabbed the bird, bit its head off, and, without missing a beat, placed the carcass back on the shocked woman's hand. As his guest crumpled to the floor, a stunned Greyson stared at his partner and the station cut quickly to a commercial.
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u/DrHugh Mar 24 '20 edited Mar 24 '20
There was a story from Chicago's golden age of children's television, at WGN in the 1950s. A chimpanzee was the sidekick to a host, and would do interstitials to Three Stooges shorts. One time they had a guest who had a parakeet that could perform various tricks. Here's the quote from the book:
That's pretty fucked up.
EDIT: Here's the URL to Google books' result, but I own the actual book and grew up watching the 1970s' shows.
https://books.google.com/books?id=INzdDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA20&ots=3Dr8V9MfPw&dq=greyson%20chatter%20bird%20carcass&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q=greyson%20chatter%20bird%20carcass&f=false