I love the tuxes that Freddie and Mr.Orlando are wearing in this scene from"The Tony Orlando & Dawn TV Show"..as Freddie would say"You're Looking Good!".
This guy accomplished a lot at 22 years old. A successful stand up career, a successful tv show, had a wife, a son, money, cars, but the cocaine and booze destroyed him.
True. He was also one of the last "clean joke" comedians. After his death we saw the rise of dirty-joke-comedians who appealed to a totally different group of people. The next generation gradually became desensitized to vulgarity in comedy, and it became the norm. Not until Jerry Seinfeld was there a great comedian who didn't rely vulgarities.
@@katherinoday1458Prinze was known for his dirty jokes though. He used clean material on Chico & the Man and other TV appearances but his standup was definitely adult oriented
Don't you know? Tony took it so hard that he even stopped performing which hurt his career as a singer. It really devastated him. Back in those days it was extremely hard for us puertoricans to make it in show business and be accepted by the then crowd.
Thank you for posting this episode❣ Great comedy before the rise of vulgarity as comedy. Freddie Prinze' must unfortunate death marked the end of an era where comedy was entertaining without the use of constant vulgarities. Eddie Murphy set the standard for dirty-joke-comedians. Freddie Prinze outshines all who followed.
I was about 15 when I saw this and actually tape recorded it when it re-ran, it was so funny. I still have the tape. I haven't "seen" this, though, since then. Thanks!
So sad so tragic 😞 he was such a talent........I was 9 when he died I loved Chico and the Man ........too bad they didn't kno about depression back in the 70s.....RIParadise great one......
My mom and I were watching Chico and the man Freddie came out ,we both looked at each other same time"there's something wrong with him" now if we could see that on tv,what does that say for all the people who were close to him,my guess ,keep making that $$$,to hell with his obvious trouble,rip Freddie,my wife and I cried,they even broadcast a few shows after he passed,shame on them
Tony was on an episode of "Chico and the Man". I read that they were planning to make a series of movies, sort of like the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby road pictures. If things had been different, maybe people would be watching those movies on RU-vid now.
He wasn't healthy. He had mental illness and was addicted to drugs. Clinical depression is not a mood, it's an illness and it doesn't matter how great life looks to others.
