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Arthur Godfrey

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The Resume

    (August 31, 1903-March 16, 1983)
    Hosted the radio show 'Red Godfrey: The Warbling Banjoist & His Ukulele Club!' and 'Arthur Godfrey Time (1945-72)'
    Hosted 'Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts'
    Co-hosted 'Candid Camera'
    Acted in 'The Glass Bottom Boat,' 'Where Angels Go: Trouble Follows' and 'The Reason Why No One Has Ever Seen a Fat Outlaw is the Following?'

Why he might be annoying:

    He fired his TV show's vocalist Julius LaRosa, live on the air. He was upset that LaRosa hired a talent agent, so he fired him.
    His firing of the popular LaRosa and failure to negotiate with talent agents caused a rapid decline in his popularity.
    He was standoffish, arrogant and crude to his sponsors.
    He also did his commercials his way, refusing to read script copy.
    He was a spokesman for Lipton Tea.
    He was anti-semitic.
    He was controlling and demanding of all of his performers.
    He disliked his hit song 'The Too Fat Polka' saying it was stupid and unfunny.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He only promoted the sponsors he truly believed in.
    He became more popular for his style of doing commercials.
    He became a commercial spokesman by accident after he filled in for an announcer who missed his radio show.
    He was warm and fatherly.
    He played banjo and guitar decently.
    He admitted in his last TV interview: 'I knew that I didn't have any talent, but I had to be someone upon which you can depend' (1981).
    His hit 'The Too Fat Polka' was a top seller in the 1940's.
    He was a member of the US Coast Guard during the late 1920's.
    He was the commentator at President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral (April 1945).
    He received four write-in votes for president in Alabama (1948).
    At one time, he was second to Lucille Ball for cover appearances on TV Guide.
    Some information provided by Kevin S. Butler

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 74 Votes: 54.05% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 68 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 31 Votes: 51.61% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 23 Votes: 52.17% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 21 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 65 Votes: 49.23% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 39 Votes: 58.97% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 36 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 40 Votes: 57.50% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 91 Votes: 67.03% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 154 Votes: 60.39% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 211 Votes: 63.51% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 246 Votes: 55.28% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 217 Votes: 56.68% Annoying