Steeply ugsisters siting around cheating ocolates and magging readazines

He was famous for those. He also did "The Pee Little Thrigs" and almost certainly some others. He was a regular on Hee Haw and, as Archie the Barber, would tell them to Roy Clark while pretending to cut his hair.

Let's see... Rindercella, her mugly other and her two sigly usters were all excited about the bancy fall given by the prandsone hince. But as Rindercella ran out when the clock struck midnight, she slopped her dripper. Later, the prandsome hince tried the dripper on the first sigly uster, and it fidn't dit. Then he tried it on the second sigly uster, and it fidn't dit. Finally, he tried it on Rindercella, and it fid dit.

That's all I can remember. Man, he broke me up back then. Manks for the themory.

Also, I have great recall. Primarily for audio. There was a comedian who became persona non grata, but when I was like 13, I had his first seven albums memorized.

My other senses aren't nearly as good.

Also back in the day in Gloucester MA at a restaurant called The Rudder, the owner, Evie, and her very funny daughters would do this entire routine.
Evie did the recitation, then would stand on her head.
One of the daughters would blast a trumpet.. then do balletic swoops across the "dining room". It was hilarious.

Thanks for a great memory prompt. I remember it as the "sisty uglers", but.there no doubt a few versions..

and said he had "tasted two whole worms."

He said “I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seagulls I leave no tern unstoned.”

Not directed at you

Take Japper, his name is. Please take him.

My partner and I often use "silly bunt." It's from a Monty Python bit with a man (Eric Idle) who can't say the letter 'c' and substitutes 'b' for it.

Can I sew you to a sheet in the chack of the burch?”

...a fun fact.
Bill Spooner, founding member of The Tubes, was a descendent of W.A Spooner, for whom the term was coined.

And I've been a Tubes fan since their first album. They should've written a song about Spoonerisms. I can imagine Fee singing it, rather like the game show host bit on "What Do You Want From Life?"

They coulda called him "Nutspik." 9r "Speverend Rutspik."

Imagine going to the weekly service and hearing him do this over and over.

It would, indeed, be weird!

And though not really spoonerisms, I also really like flipped phrases like:

George Birthington’s Washday.

Or the less obvious (because there are no wrong words):

Bottle in front of me versus Frontal lobotomy.

But yeah, I’m a huge fan of the tenuously clever. (Hence my fondness of dad jokes.)

For at least half my life.

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He didn't make a spoonerism, but he spake a moonerism.

He was announcing the lineup for the evening, and he mentioned a movie whose name I cannot recall.

The movie starred Forrest Tucker.

The announcer was fired.

...as Hoobert Heever. I think my mom told me about this.

It was on radio. Might've been a spoof, like when Pat Paulsen said "President Johnston" and "President Nixton" on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.