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  • We were the two kids who, when we were 11, really liked Frank Sinatra and Fibber McGee and Moll, so we were constantly absorbing that stuff together.

    Buzzine » John Mulaney Interview 2009

  • It was reminiscent of days gone by when the family gathered around the old Victrola to listen to Fibber McGee and Molly.

    serment - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • He helped enrich the golden age of radio comedy, when worlds were transmitted through the voices of Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Ed Wynn, Ed-gar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee and Molly.

    Springing Eternal 2008

  • Audubon Woodlore in several Disney cartoons, as the ever irritating Droopy, and a regular cast member who voice several characters in the old “Fibber McGee and Molly” radio show.

    Jerky Turkey (1945) Jacqueline T Lynch 2007

  • Audubon Woodlore in several Disney cartoons, as the ever irritating Droopy, and a regular cast member who voice several characters in the old “Fibber McGee and Molly” radio show.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2007

  • GRIFFIN: Wrong, Fibber McGee and Molly lived there.

    CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2007 2007

  • GRIFFIN: Wrong, Fibber McGee and Molly lived there.

    CNN Transcript May 20, 2006 2006

  • GRIFFIN: Wrong, Fibber McGee and Molly lived there.

    CNN Transcript May 11, 2006 2006

  • One of them only specialists will notice (Fibber McGee didn't debut on radio until 1935); the other will jar a wider audience (surely the police slang "perp" wasn't current in the 1930s).

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Real also were characters who were not "bigger than life," but ordinary people like Dagwood Bumstead and Fibber McGee, characters who reminded us of our own capacity to bumble and sometimes be abused by others.

    Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981

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