The skit was certainly no broader in its assault on humor than many another on Arthur Godfrey & His Friends (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). Dressed as whitewings, Godfrey, Crooner Morton Downey and Hollywood Comic Jack Carson appeared on the screen pushing street cleaners' brooms. Said Godfrey: "Well, we've dished a lot of it out. Let's clean some of it up."
On this occasion, Godfrey's usually good timing was off-base as well as off-color. Just the day before, speaking at the University of Oklahoma, Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had said: "When a comedian gets so big that his network...
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