
Ding Ding Ding… April 15th…. taxes are due, or maybe your like Granny who would say….”Jed let me get my gun, it’s the revenue man!” LikeTelevision has a bunch of fun content related to our favorite folks – tax men. Yes… even back in ancient times, people always loved the tax collectors. Why one of them even went on to become saint and write a Gospel (St. Matthew)… so let’s cut the IRS some slack… while you’re cutting them a check.
Anyway, we dug deep into our video vault to find some terrific entertainment related to the Tax Man. First on the list has got to be – Jed pays His Taxes starring Irene Ryan as Granny and Buddy Ebsen as Jed in a Hillbilly comedy classic. And speaking of comedy – by all means check out 2 killer episodes of the Burns and Allen Show – The Tax Man and Property Tax Assessor. And lest we forget – sometimes its the Treasury Department who acts as the toughest cop – remember, it was the Tax Man who ultimately took down notorious gangster Al Capone, a.k.a. Scarface – on October 19, 1931. All right, if you’re like me… you like to grumble when you pay your taxes – so make sure you check out this FREE PREVIEW from My Man Godfrey, where Eugene Pallette, of the the greatest grumblers of all time – tells his family that they are spending 50% of his money while the revenue department is taking out just 60% of his income. Yes… it is hard to believe – but indeed that was the tax hit many years ago… in fact it was even much higher at its peak, especially when you added federal, local and property taxes to the pie. I guess that makes me feel a little bit better. Time to sign off… singing one of my my favorite Beatles tunes by the late great George Harrison – Tax Man.