Easy Reader. He got me through grade school. Whenever the other kids made fun of me for wanting to sit and read during recess, I'd think, "Screw them. EASY READER says it's cool to read!"

@benjaminspecland8947

3 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏

@julianb.5587

2 жыл бұрын

Very true.

@poetsgraffiti

2 жыл бұрын

Same man !!

@Kingrob30

Жыл бұрын

I'm with you!

@jest-fn3qq

10 ай бұрын

No doubt.

Come on, everybody: "Top to bottom, left to right. That reading stuff is-a OUTTASITE!"

@BrianThomas

Ай бұрын

LOL. It was groovy man. Can you dig it?

It was amazing to view Morgan Freeman on that iconic children's show when I was young, and to see him later as this amazing actor is the icing on the cake! Such an awesome and very talented man, in everything that he has done.

Morgan Freeman could talk me through a bowel movement and it would still sound like a TED talk

@thedude4672

5 жыл бұрын

B-O-W + E-L = Bowel

@Mister_Listener

Жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness three years later, i am lol at your comments. Hehe. I love youtube!

@eboogie35

Жыл бұрын

you is stoopid 🤣 🤪 😜

I grew up loving The Electric Company. In my youth in Seattle I remembered it was considered across the board, by young and old, as an unquestionably outstandingly good positive thing. Ah nostalgia, those were the days. Thank you Morgan and Jimmy.

I was listening to my Electric Company Spider Man record album that I got in 1977 and it's narrated by Morgan Freeman! It's great listening to him tell the story of Spider Man.

The Electric Company was gold for me. One of my most fave childhood TV shows along with Sesame Street.

We must protect Morgan Freeman

@georgemiser

5 жыл бұрын

Especially with all those whores trying to ruin his good name.

@roshana110

5 жыл бұрын

georgemiser He literally tried lifting women’s skirts without their consent.

@roshana110

5 жыл бұрын

georgemiser aside from that he’s also just kind of an ashsole

@ArJayDM

5 жыл бұрын

Roshan Ailani he LITERALLY did that? Show me the LITERAL proof? How can you go around just saying stuff like this with no justification ?? Oh yeah, just be a female

@ImTheCookieMonster95

5 жыл бұрын

He apologized about that so theres your proof.

Morgan freemans voice is something else

@Mister_Listener

Ай бұрын

Ez Reader had a theme song and Morgan sang it…it is adorable.

They should preserve the vocal cord of Morgan Freeman when he passes away just like they save the brains of brilliant scientists!

@WasteFaced

5 жыл бұрын

they should turn them into cello strings

@proxymoxie

2 жыл бұрын

That's not creepy at all 😀

As a 5-year-old, I LOVED Sesame Street and Electric Company. Those 2 programs contributed to my ability to learn how to read quickly.

A lot of regretful people thinking of what his autograph is worth today...

@magnumpi8097

3 жыл бұрын

Exactamondo.

@pastoryoda2789

3 жыл бұрын

Some people said the same about Vanilla Ice

I don't think 3/4's of the audience was even born in the 1990s let alone old enough to watch Electric company from the 1970s.

@hamosally3860

Жыл бұрын

I was born in 2001 and watched electric company at my grandparents house cus all they had was PBS. Never judge!

@Mister_Listener

Ай бұрын

@@hamosally3860how cool! were you watching 1970’s Electric Company reruns or was it a reboot?!

I gotta tell you, I am 55 now and I LOVED Easy Reader!! I see how funny the name is now referring to Easy Rider. Watching now shows me how hip and fun the character was. Just like Sesame Street which I watched too, they had a little something for the parents in there too. Mr. Rogers I also still love as well. This is the first thing I think of when I hear the name Morgan Freeman! Uh, uh, uh!

Sesame Street, Electric Company, Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood, Carrascolendas, Villa Allegre! , 5 days a week from the time I was 6, a major part of my early education came from PBS.

@RutabegaNG

3 жыл бұрын

So I'm not the only one who remembers Ville Allegre

@theorca5173

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Zoom.

FINALY! He comes out about the Electric Company....❤️

@georgemaster9271

4 жыл бұрын

Yes,after much hostile silence he's talking about it.Better late than never!

@MrKeychange

3 ай бұрын

​@@georgemaster9271Kimmel put him on the spot. haha Gen X wants that hug real bad. 😂

@SamWesting

Ай бұрын

Yes. EC was an off-limits topic for years w/Morgan. Glad he’s mellowed out on this. Now, if only someone could get Susan Dey to talk about the Partridge Family.

@Mister_Listener

Ай бұрын

@@SamWestingwhy?

@SamWesting

Ай бұрын

⁠Accomplished actors sometimes don’t want to talk about early roles that are embarrassing for them to talk about.

When I was a kid (I'm 53 now), I had *SUCH* a crush on Easy Reader!

Those people who got his autograph and threw them on the floor must be kicking themselves. Those autographs must be worth a small fortune now.

As Dracula: "I love the letter 'v' because my favorite word starts with the letter 'v.' And do you know what my favorite word is? My favorite word is....'vanilla!'" Funniest thing Morgan Freeman ever said on that show.

Who's narrating Morgan Freeman's life? god.

@purrbugaloo

5 жыл бұрын

😂💜😂💜😂💜😂

@sagarshrestha2361

5 жыл бұрын

the king of cool I'm sure it's the other way around

@mercka4583

5 жыл бұрын

Why would Morgan Freeman narrate himself?

@dburris718

5 жыл бұрын

I’m not religious but when I think of “God” I picture and hear Morgan Freeman bc that movie he did with Steve Carroll I think it was

@jsegames6276

2 жыл бұрын

*God

Wow! Morgan Freeman is just as funny here as he was on The Electric Company! Though he didn't enjoy doing that show - he was embarrassed doing a kids' show and only did it because it was his "first taste of financial security" - he really showed his comic and dramatic versatility on it, from Easy Reader to Mel Mounds to Marco the Magician to Vincent the Vegetable Vampire, and many more. That was a fabulous start for such a great actor. Thanks for posting!

@larrygro

6 ай бұрын

Gotta start somewhere.

@Mister_Listener

Ай бұрын

He is in a 1979 movie with Hattie Winston and Saundra Pearl Sharp and he plays an addict who jumps from a roof, its a good movie and he is amazing in it.

I LOVE THE ELECTRIC COMPANY !!! I hv always preferred that to sesame street Morgan Freeman I hope u know u hv a lot of malaysian kids that learnt a lot of English from that show -from Malaysia

I LOVE Electric Company! Great for helping kids read

All those discarded autographs... probably worth thousands of dollars today but were thrown in the trash that day... shame...

Morgan Freeman was great as Easy Reader. He made it cool to read.

This man Morgan is so authentic.

Sad that he hated being on the Electric Company. I loved that show, and loved him on it. He will always be Easy Reader to me.

I saw Morgan Freeman movies a couple of times before I realized he was in The Electric Company. I remember thinking he looked familiar. I must have been 6 when the Eclectic Company came on, I was a big fan! Thanks you!

He will always be Easy Reader to me.

I still watch the Electric Company once in awhile. Its got an awesome sketch comedy vibe, and it is really fun and happy.

I remember reading only because I HAD to ~ but when I saw how much fun Easy Reader was having when he read, THAT opened my eyes to an entire world of fun reading. Now my favorite books are those that were made into movies. I enjoy watching the movies first, because you get the characters' voice in your mind {The way they talk and sound}, so when you read the book, you get more detail, and many questions answered. When you read the lines that were put into the movie, you kind of hear them read in the movie characters' voices. But when you go the OTHER way {Book before movie}, more often you will be asking "Why wasn't {Pick a Scene from the book} put in the movie?!?"

Unlike on May 5, 2020, I was able to fully watch this video tonight. It was nice to actually hear him talk about his time on "The Electric Company". He rarely talks about his time on the show! 🤓

Morgan Freeman and the Electric Company, taught me had to read before I was in Kindergarten. Thank you, Mr. Morgan Freeman!!! And now I take baths in my casket?

53 i remember that show on PBS :) The Electric Company

@davidcrowley6216

5 жыл бұрын

So many good things about The Electric Company. I still love the song 12345 678910 11 12.

@andrewtorres765

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidcrowley6216 That was Sesame Street. Electric Company dealt only with reading.

Praise To That Man👆

That's were I first saw him on Electric Company in the 70s

I want every single one of those signed pieces of paper that people didn’t want! ❤️🤟🏻😍

I love Morgan Freeman. He's an incredible actor.

There was an episode of Electric Company where Big Bird met Fargo North, Decoder. And another where Oscar shares a scene with J. Arthur Crank.

Morgan Freeman will ALWAYS be Easy Reader to THIS proud Gen Xer! Nowadays, he's Easy Reader reading scripts narrating shows and advertisements!

Can you imagine if you were on of those people who dropped his autographs. I bet they're a rare find now! The fools!

Easy Reader that’s my name....I go Uh uh uh

"HEY YOU GUYS!"

@carapo66

3 жыл бұрын

Rita!!

If anyone kept their Easy Reader autograph, I have to wonder what it would be worth now.

Mellow Mel Mounds with Pounds Of Sounds comin' to you tune goons and sound hounds with the latest from the Short Circuits......

What a man, such a amazing actor and what a talent!!

Marcellooooo! The word is “snap”. SNAP!!!

I agree with what you just said, being an EC fan back in those days. (The show helped me especially to learn to read.)

I remember an electric company segment where morgan tasted 2 kinds of cola. one was in a light brown cup with a light yellow lower case q on it and the other was in a light brown cup with a light yellow lower case m on it. hattie Winston or lee chamberlain is also in that segment. when morgan tasted the q cola, he made a yucky face but he swallowed it. the m cola tasted even yuckier and he spat it out and then said something about both colas being from the land of yuck. I hope someone posts that segment on youtube

@amazingsupergirl7125

3 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing you remember that!

Morgan gets major props for being Easy Reader. Like seriously. I could care in the least about his fame afterwards. Him and Rita were legends!

Electric company was my show back then.

Wouldn't his sign signature be worth a good amount of money today .. I feel those people missed out of a good investment there

@magnumpi8097

3 жыл бұрын

Yep a couple of grand for sure ;0)

I watched The Electric Company.....I miss it and my children and grandchildren missed out.

"Hey you guuuuuyyys!" Wasn't Morgan also Varny the Vegetable Vampire?

@TheKobolos

5 жыл бұрын

*sings* I'm Vincent the Vegetable Vampire! In the nighttime tomatoes start to scream! It's only Vincent the vegetable vampire...reaping in the garden of your dreams...

@purrbugaloo

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheKobolos Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

@RIXRADvidz

5 жыл бұрын

MARCELLO!!!!! and the sign would get smacked from his hands

We loved you, Morgan! Thanks for being a reading role model for generations of people!!

It would be an honor to meet him!

I want him to read me a bedtime story

I wish I had just one of those little pieces of paper.

He's Vincent the Vegetable Vampire.

Finally someone asked Morgan Freeman about his time on Electric Company....however I hate it was Kimmel. Easy Reader was the best. Although, not the best interview...would like it more serious.

Easy Reader, Dracula, Mel Mounds, and the mad scientist.

gawd...that's probably the first time in 45 years that Morgan's talked about The Electric Company! 😆

I remember the first time I saw Morgan Freeman in a movie and thought, "Hey! That's Vincent The Vegetable Vampire!"

What a great guy. We are not perfect and neither him but let's not forget he played god several times so have respect. 😅

People over 50 are hilarious

Easy reader was the coolest when I was growing up and I still love to read.

I always envisioned viscous off camera knife fights.

Search Merciful Servant

I’m not a Jimmy Kimmel fan, but I am an Easy Reader fan!

Electric company was one of my favorite shows

Love it!!!

Easy Reader did a promo with Big Bird re Nashville TV stations switching channels. Big Bird and Grover each cameoed on _The Electric Company._ IIRC Bird went to consult with Fargo North, Decoder on a puzzle. Grover ... I think I remember him at a diner? Don't recall specifics though.

He's right you know.

I thought he was great on The Electric Company. Crazy start for such a great acting career. Very talented guy.

Kimmel is taking one for the team. lol There's an entire generation who LOVES this guy for something he hated doing. I know he thinks it's beneath him, but the Electric Company was a jam and really creative. He should be proud or it Morgan Freeman takes himself too seriously sometimes

He probably signed his name as Morgan Freeman and nobody knew who he was

He will always be The Man from The Electric Company!

When morgan is on tv all granpas wake up to watch him ...

i could listen to this mans voice all day

Hes such a gentleman to everyone!

I always wondered if he and Hattie Winston ever dated seriously... they were a HOT couple in many scenes!!

@Mister_Listener

29 күн бұрын

Hattie Winston was married to Hugh Wheeler, who orchestrated a few of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970’s broadway musicals. I cant remember the name of the movie she did with Saundra Pearl Sharpe, but look it up on youtube. Morgan has a small role in that movie too, and Hattie’s character was a singer!

I will forever love me some Morgan Freeman

I loved the electric company growing up EZ reader was the bomb I remember he teamed with Spider-Man! On the show and in a comic book!

We could've gone down a great rabbit hole of Easy Reader stories but he chose to ask the dumbest questions.

I would have kept my autograph Mr. Freeman! Peace!

I used to love The Electric Company!

Best actor of my lifetime.

I couldn’t understand what did he say about something on the floor when he was doing autographs?

Makes you wonder what his 12 years were like between The Electric Company and Lean On Me.

He played Dracula on the Electric Company.

He is Mr Electric Company I love him doing Dracula

Spiderman though ...

I watched I love Lucy, I dream of Jeannie, the three stooges, home improvement, family matters, but I never heard of the electric company.

@irams8486

5 жыл бұрын

Lust it’s not a sitcom. It’s like Sesame Street but for slightly older kids. Beginning readers. It’s in HBO and PBS still

It sounds like the crowd noises are being volume controlled

Un-Foo was my favorite.

I thought I recognized his voice narrating Spider-Man on The Electric Company

🚨🚨🚨

Sorry former PBS Kids fan But I only think Morgan Freeman as a famous movie star because I seen The Dark night trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, Glory, Driving Miss Daisy and Lots more.

Loved The Electric Company. Sesame Street rebooted by Monty Python...

Morgan should have sung his Easy Reader theme.