BOB AND RAY

in full Robert Brackett Elliott and Raymond Walter Goulding

born March 26, 1923, Boston, Mass., U.S.(born March 20, 1922, Lowell, Mass.

died March 24, 1990, Manhasset, N.Y.) U.S. comedy team.

They met while working at a Boston radio station and soon established their comic style in a program of parodies and satire (1946–51). The Bob and Ray Show was nationally syndicated (1951–53), and their comedy sketches were popular in the 1950s and '60s on several networks. They also performed in the theatre and starred in the Broadway show The Two and Only (1970).