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Bob Elliott (born 1923) and Ray Goulding (1922–1990) were an American comedy team whose career spanned five decades.

"Bob & Ray invented, dreamed up the lines for, and then played, mainly on radio and television, a surrealistic Dickensian repertory company, which chastens the fools of the world with hyperbole, slapstick, parody, verbal nonsense, non sequitur, and sheer wit, all of it clean, subtle and gentle... Bob & Ray's humor turns on their faultless timing and on their infinite sense of the ridiculous. It is also framed by that special sly, dry, wasteless vision of life perfected during the last couple of centuries by middle-class New Englanders..."

-- Whitney Balliett, writing in The New Yorker

"Bob & Ray can go on being funny almost ind
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Average rating: 3.83 · 637 ratings · 70 reviews · 32 distinct works
Write If You Get Work : The...

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From Approximately Coast to...

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The New! Improved! Bob and ...

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The Very Best of Bob and Ra...

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Tucson a Basketball Town

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Big Fish Little Fish: Fish ...

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The Best of Bob & Ray: Exce...

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Bob & Ray: A Night Of Two S...

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