I met Don Adams on Sun Set Blvd. Before he stared in the movie " THE NUDE BOMB" I asked him for his autograph, & he opens the trunk of his car, & with a smile on his face, rips out the cover sheet to the script "THE RETURNE OF MAXWELL SMART" that also reads, property of Universal Studios" naturally between my friends, & the girl I was with that late night, we couldn't find a pen or pencil. So the girl I was with say's will an eyebrow pencil work? And that's how I was given not only Don Adams name, but an entire paragraph back before May 9th 1980, before they changed the title of the movie, & I still have it to this day ! What a TREASURE TO STILL HAVE AFTER ALL THESE'S YEARS !
@@marksitts2290 I grew up watching Get Smart but doubled to spanish, and the Inspector gadget to. I didnt know until some months ago that he did the voice of Inspector Gadget. so now. I will watch it all over again in original language :)
Nobody but nobody could've played the role of Maxwell Smart.. Secret Agent 86 of Control better than this man here. RIP donny boy.. Thx for the great memories and all the laughs.
Don Adams voiced the legendary Saturday morning animated penguin, Tennessee Tuxedo, and the part-human being/part-cyborg law enforcer Inspector Gadget. He was filled in the shoes left by the new voice of Inspector Gadget, Canadian character actor Ivan Sherry.
@grodhagen CO2 is not classified as a pollutant and we need it to survive. You would think that the leftist Obama would be all over that climate change B.S. but ironically he just purchased a 15 million dollar home right on the water front in Martha's Vineyard. I guess he's not to worried about climate change.
@@thomaslauffenberger5795 Thanks for that. I haven't seen the show in so long, I didn't remember that one. I'll have to find it somewhere and watch again.
@@googoo-gjoob Steve Allen was the most creative person and gave many their start a comics. He was so understated, almost came off as "nerdy" and yet he knew how get us laughing.
Adams did Tennessee Tuxedo, while Dayton Allen, Steve's bro, did Chumley. Dayton Allen himself did many cartoon voices, and was a regular on Steve Allen's old shows.
All phenomenal tv shows. The cartoons are far far better than 99% of the junk that's on now as for Get Smart it's also far far better than 99% of the primetime comedy shows that are on now.
@@DavidALovingMPF102, and his daughter, Cecily (who was an actress in her own right-she was Quark's mom on _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ )-died around the same time.
@@timthemailman7581 Get Smart is the second funniest US TV show I ever saw, and I can't think of the funniest. Brilliant writers and brilliant actors, never to be repeated.
Dick Tracy preceded him with a wrist phone, which would be called today a "wearable". Earlier and more advanced than the shoe phone. But very prescient for Smart, in an early episode his shoe causes an embarrassment by ringing at a concert. I guess there was no announcement at the beginning reminding patrons to please turn off their shoe phones.
Jim Gilligan - Zigfried - I don’t have. Suicide pill I have a suicide ring - Smart: A Suicide Ring??? How does that work? Zigfried - if I take it off my wife kills me
They say laughter is the best medicine. This was priceless... Watched it in the midst of the COVID-19 Story.... This was so good for the soul. One of my favourite shows as a kid growing up in Canada, “Would you believe...”. What a line..., :)
He derived that staccato, precise diction voice from his drill instructor duty in the Marine Corps. Can you picture him demanding recruits, “Now, I expect this squad bay to be spic-and-span in 15 minutes. Do you understand?”
Oh, I love this. As a comedy purist myself? It's all about stand-up, and I love watching these old-timers. I don't' see them as better than what we have today, as comedy has evolved and has gotten stronger and stronger, but their brand of comedy was so classy and so very subtle. I really enjoy watching the old stuff.
Easy to see where Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, came from. Great comedian and comedic actor was Don Adams. His monologues and dialogues were razor sharp and his timing was perfect. Brilliant!
Having been born in England 1960 I loved Don as agent smart. Seeing this video has been an eye opener. What a great stand up!! I shall be looking for more of him.
Stop it with your ‘back in the old days' nonsense. There have always been ‘blue’ comics, but they weren’t allowed on TV. They were very common in comedy clubs. In the 1950s you weren’t even allowed to say the words ‘pregnant’ or ‘toilet’ on TV. Norms have changed since then, thank goodness. The real world was never truly like ‘Leave ito Beaver’. Get over it. If you don’t like a comedic style, change the channel.
I love the GET SMART sitcom, it made me laugh so much that "would you believe" I bought the entire DVD collection. He was brilliant for his time. Thanks for wonderful memories secret agent 86, RIP.
He was from New York, but that voice he created (and later used in Get Smart) was based on an actor he saw in the movies. That wasn't his natural accent.
That's why I clicked on this, to hear his accent. I don't hear an accent until he says. All right, Men. I would have guessed Chicago Jew accent for his regular voice.
How prophetic it was fifty years before we got the electric car but with inflation the car will cost you $50,000. That's $10,000 for the car and $40,000 for the extension cord.
2001Horatio...So you're the one who voted for Jimmy Carter. Could you explain and perhaps expand upon the economic and political conditions of the late 70s that led to the Reagan landslide?
@@scottty500 The *October Surprise* got Reagan in office. In 1980, the same percentage of adults voted for Reagan as believed that the sun orbits the earth - no joke. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cApW47dIWQ0.html Gary Sick, a retired Naval Captain, served on Ford's, Carter's, and Reagan's National Security Council, wrote a book on US-Iran relations, *All Fall Down* - In "October 1980 officials in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign made a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of the American hostages until after the election and in return for this, the United States purportedly arranged for Israel to ship weapons to Iran. Sick had interviewed a witness who saw members of the Reagan election team in Paris in negotiations with the Iranian government. According to Sick, Oliver North was the administration's scapegoat, taking responsibility to conceal the "treason" of Reagan and Bush." www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/14/277058739/1-in-4-americans-think-the-sun-goes-around-the-earth-survey-says The problem with the US public being ignorant hasn't improved in nearly 40 years. "...Ron got 50.7 percent of the popular vote...Ron got a scant 27.3 percent of the eligible vote..." www.straightdope.com/columns/read/123/what-u-s-presidents-won-in-the-biggest-landslides/
hey @Wolverine Pete Baker Electric 1909 was very popular you did not have to hand crank it .. Jay Leno has one www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z11282/baker-electric.aspx
This guy is a MARINE. Fought enemy soldiers, saw combat, nearly died in the field. @4:20 Maxwell just arrived lol! First time I finally got to see his stand up, nice
@@readmore3634 Out of curiosity, in what targeted nation did he defend the USA? Because it seems that American forces are always enacting their "defense" in someone else's country- moreover, a country that hasn't attacked them. An impartial observer could be forgiven for wondering whether these dozens of foreign wars can't more accurately be described as criminal adventures- wars of aggression rather than defense.
@@vestibulate It was Guadalcanal. World War II. The USA was, in fact, attacked by the country they were fighting in that theater. The US had been avoiding involvement until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
@@vestibulate I'm no expert on Don Adams' bio... Or US history for that matter... I thought his show was funny when I was a kid.... I do know that I'd rather bring the fight to them...than fight the war within my country's borders. That would be terrible!..So...If a country is powerful enough to do that, they must have their shit together...and know better than to just go around fighting countries for no reason. Which country are you from?
Thanks for uploading👍 Comic Genius he was!! Still love watching Get Smart To This Day😀😀😀 Along with The Adams Family, I Dream Of Jeanie, F' Troop, Etc. Just Great Times! Considering The Current Situation😞
Just think this was long before Laugh In, SNL, and before a lot of the great comics, he was way ahead of his time, no wonder they chose him for Get Smart.
Don Adams was to Maxwell Smart what Jason Alexander is to George Costanza. Two comedy geniuses who nailed their characters so perfectly that they could never really escape them.
Looking at him, one would never have guessed that he was a WW2 combat vet who served in the US Marine and a Marine DI. He was wounded on Guadalcanal and contracted a tropical disease (blackwater fever) that has a 90% fatality rate. Even today, people who contract blackwater fever would end up in the ICU
Steve Girard Media you're right I did know that. Sometimes people just don't get the humor, over their head maybe, I just let them have their moment in the sun. That may have been the only chance they get to feel superior so let them have it. Plus they made their point without being derogatory. Thanks for backing me up though.
What I thought was interesting was Steve Allen referring to him as a "monologuist." I wonder if the term "Stand up comic" hadn't been introduced yet (or if Allen was just being snooty).
Who's watching this in 2020?...............me:) Don Adams was truly an 'original'. Just like a great musician, as soon as you hear his voice, you know who is speaking. Tidbit: Don could memorize his lines (and others), just after reading it once.
Adams was in a comedy team with Larry Storch's brother, Jay for several years, but they had little success. He bumped along as a solo, but was not good at writing material, so his agent sent him to Bill Dana, whom he paid $20 wk for routines. You're listening to some of Dana's material now, which made him famous.
Truly a great comedian not trash, of today, comedians should stand up take a look at Don Adams, no one can ever duplicate him as Get Smart, but you may try. LOL
Don adams ahead of his time with the electric car joke, but instead of expensive cord, they have expensive batteries, Don adams served bravely as a US MARINE during WW2 , and as a drill instructor. RIP DON ADAMS, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED
Don was a combat Marine who fought on Guadalcanal. Later he became a Marine Corps drill instructor. Imagine a drill instructor yelling in a recruit's ear with that voice!
This is wonderful - what a great guy - never heard of him before - this is a great find ! Thank you so much for showing us limeys what a truly great American humorist is - Greetings from London - England !
How truly eye-opening and hilarious! what a treasure.....(and I say that as having been old enough to have seen Get Smart during it's original run, before he was totally typecast, but of an age to Not Get that one had to prove themselves before acquiring the rights to such a part).
Don Adams was not only very funny but he served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, and took part in the landings and battle at Guadalcanal, where he contracted malaria.