Farnsworth

[fahrnz-wurth]

noun

1. Philo Taylor 1906–71, U.S. physicist and inventor: pioneer in the field of television.

Example Sentences

The show opened quite brilliantly — perhaps confusingly, if you had missed Bargatze’s “Washington’s Dream” sketches on “Saturday Night Live” on which the routine was closely modeled, including the presence of Mikey Day, Bowen Yang and James Austin Johnson — with the host as Philo T. Farnsworth, “the inventor of television,” foreseeing the medium’s less than sensible future.

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Bargatze portrayed Philo T. Farnsworth, the “visionary genius” who saw the potential of television’s future.

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The most risque joke of the sketch came when Farnsworth mentioned that there would be channels for people of every culture, including “Telemundo for Spanish-speakers and BET — Black Entertainment Television.”

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When asked if there would be a network for white people, he mentioned Emmys airer CBS, which one of Farnsworth’s assistants described as “the Caucasian Broadcast System.”

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Echoing his “SNL” performance as George Washington, Bargatze is Philo T. Farnsworth, who is in fact known as the “father of television.”

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