Why this works is because Dean Martin never rehearsed. He went into every skit cold. He didn't want to know what his guests had planned so his reaction would be genuine. When you see Dean cracking up, that's spontaneous. That's really Dean. This may have come out of his days in the Rat Pack where everything was done on the fly. Totally improvisational. Of course the Jedi Master of improvisation was Jonathan Winters.
@@toniwilson1579 That's why Dean & Jerry parted. Dean couldn't reach his potential with a script doing comedy. Imagine if Jerry hadn't written all their scripts.
@@moonlanding-69 Dean & Jerry started off very young but Jerry, despite being still a teenager, grew up in comedy with his parents. Dean went along until both started to grow on different directions. Dean wanted to do some serious acting & Jerry got interested in learning what was behind the camera. Plus, people started to get into ear of each of them telling them they would be better off alone. It didn't matter. When they parted they were at the top of their game with contract that today would be closer to billion than millions. Once on their own they excelled. Jerry made a name for himself in how he helped create the instant video playback while filming plus many innovations. Too bad he got hooked on painkillers but great he listened to his doctor & got off them. Dean took awhile to lift off but when he did he skyrocketed. Loved them both & they, as a team, will forever remain in my heart.
Here we go again. When Dean says "I don't kiss and glide" you don't think that was in a written script, written by writers on the show? As was every single question Dean asked Jonathan. It's a skit. It's written by writers. You can ad-lib within the skit but Dean knew exactly what questions to ask because he knew exactly what his guest had planned. It's possible he didn't rehearse it. But it's still a planned skit
This was one of countless things that made growing up in the 70s and 80s a real treasure. We never had to apologize for anything, well most everything was great, I'll leave y'all with that thought.
Excellent. Being from the UK, I only ever knew Mr Winters from seeing him in "Mad, Mad....World" and loved his performance as the truck driver. Apparently, he used to keep fellow cast members in stitches during breaks from filming. It is only recently that I have discovered just how good an improvisor he was.
Wonderful to see the full length version of this, only seen the version that is cut after 'She was naughty!'. One of the best eleven minutes in all television.
I will never tire of this genius. As astonishingly brilliant as Robin Williams was, God Bless his soul... Williams owes so, so much to the inspiration of Winters. (Dean Martin is one of the greatest straight men who has ever lived.) (Addendum, 3 years later) I recently saw an interview with one of Dino's producers, and he said something along the lines of, "There were two frequently-appearing performers on the show who we never wrote for, who had blank cue cards: Don Rickles and Jonathan Winters."
My dad and I watched Dean Martin every week. Everyone young and old seemed to love his show. A lot of the humor went way over my head then. Great, friendly comedian and person.
I know Jonathan kept on ad libing until Dean just couldn't stand it. I love them together. Of course Jonathan with Robin Williams, that's a fire you can't put out. Check out some of their work too!
Jonathan Winters was always comedy gold. He even did a few serious rolls (great on a Twilight Zone episode - played it totally straight). What a Genius!
In the early 60s Jonathan Winters was in a major comedy called It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world filled with the most famous comedians of the day. Interview, after interview with the best of the best, of the comedy world said no one on the set was funnier than this man. He was known to ad-lib "funny" hours at a time.
Jonathan Harshman Winters III (11 de noviembre de 1925-11 de abril de 2013) fue un comediante, actor, autor, presentador de televisión y artista estadounidense. A partir de 1960, Winters grabó muchos álbumes de comedia clásica para el sello Verve Records. También tuvo un álbum cada década durante más de 50 años, recibiendo 11 nominaciones a los Grammy, incluyendo ocho al Mejor Álbum de Comedia, durante su carrera. De estas nominaciones, ganó el Premio Grammy al Mejor Álbum para Niños por su contribución a una adaptación de El Principito en 1975 y el Premio Grammy al Mejor Álbum de Comedia Hablada para Crank(y) Calls en 1996.
I noticed him from either it's a mad mad mad mad world, highly considered of the greatest film comedies ever made.(i proudly own the criterion dvd/blu-ray. or seeing his 2000 bio/doc the unknown jonathan winters: on the ledge. which i also own. the doc gives a really good account of his unique and original genius as a comic who marched to his own drummer.
In 1971, I just arrived in California. My first job was as a page at NBC. My first day on the job and my first assignment was working on the Dean Martin Show. Just a year before, I was in Pittsburgh, Pa tending bar and watching the Dean Martin show. After a few months in Calif, I arrived at the studio a half hour early. When I got to the hallway, I saw Jonathan Winters. I spent the most interesting half hour of my life talking to this man. Although I never spoke to Mr. Martin, I did have a wonderful conversation with Mr. Winters. He was a wonderful, nice man...what a memory for me.
I meet Jonathan in 1981.he was chatting with the gas station owner smoking his cigar wearing coveralls I was near the studios in cally I had to get fuel I said hey to him and got him to sign his name I still have it nice guy
I love the fact that while there are some jokes I don't get that get a laugh, there are some genius jokes in there by Jonathan that by the (lack of) sounds of it go way over the audience. What a guy. Make you realize he's ahead of his time here.
Probably because the real words were cut-out. Dean didn't say 'cheeks' and JW didn't say 'naughty!' You can see Dean's worried look in the very last seconds of the clip as he looks over wondering how much the fine will be.
They were both WWII veterans... honorably discharged. So were Don Adams, Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin. Many others too... now it's a rarity that popular comics or actors serve.
Woody Allen said that when he was writing jokes for comediennes, Jonathan Winters did not anyone to write for him because he had the ability to write his own material.
Guess what, if there was a script, Winters left it after the first 30 seconds and Martin can't even pretend to care. Two talented guys on a dark stage, two chairs, and a vague premise. Who can pull something like this off today? Robin Williams was the last I can think of.
I am definitely a dino fan over Frank I just love his singing his personality everybody wants to say was a drunk he did not drink I said he was drinking iced tea or apple juice he couldn't have done all the moves he did and saying like he did and drank. Drinking ruins your voice but he was also fast on his feet I read his Memoirs from his daughter he was also a street boxer when he was young if you notice his hands are huge. But he didn't rehearse his shows either and he didn't like rehearsing the songs he sang what he felt like singing it was great. I wish they'd bring that show back on
I heard that this was not scripted. Dean sat down only knowing the premise that they were passengers on an airplane and had no idea what Winters was going to do or say as Winters just improvised the whole scene.
