I was born in 1948 . Had our first TV in the early 50s. The Honeymooners was one of the first shows I remember ....I've seen every one of them at least once and probably 2 or 3 times. To this day I still enjoy them when I happen to catch one.
When I was about 7 yrs(1977) old I accidentally started watching the honeymooner's.....I had a black and white TV set in my bedroom ...I thought is was good and funny so i called for my father to come in my room to show him this cool "new" show i had discovered....to my surprise he started saying the lines , i said how do you know this ??....that's when i found out it was a rerun of a show he watched as a child on tv back in the 50's......lol......the same kind of thing happened when i found a "doowop" station on the radio and my father knew the songs .........lol.......now im 53 yrs old (2023) dad is gone......but me and friends still imitate the lines of honeymooners episodes , i still listen to doowop and rhythm and blues music of the 50's.!!!!!..........😮.Erik
Jackie Gleason was from Brooklyn. I grew up in Brooklyn, so I related to his rhetoric. 34 yrs old when he got his shot to do his thing. Nice to hear his process to success. The genesis of the characters was brilliant.
This was really a "joy" to see. I'm so glad that "The Media Stash" posted this video here on You Tube for us Honeymooners fans to enjoy. The Honeymooners is without a doubt one of the best and longest running classic tv shows to air on television. It is the only now classic tv show to be aired o network tv since it was in syndication. Fortunately for us all who appreciate good television comedy. Jackie Gleason's masterpiece.
Jackie Gleason was truly something SPECIAL...R.I.P. to a LEGEND 🕊 R.I.P. Art Carney and Audrey Meadows 🕊🕊🕊🕊 Joyce Randolph is still beautiful at 98yrs young ❤
i love this show, & will, to my final breath. Dad loved Gleason, & I do too. I have to admit, watching The Honeymooners now, reminds me of Dad. I miss you Dad, every day. -----------------MJL< 75 y/o
It's always bittersweet when I watch " The Honeymooners " ; i still laugh, but I also know that time is moving on ,& I'm getting older . ---------Too many friends are gone-----I divorced in '92, & never remarried-----& at times------well, watching Gleason & Carney, is good for my soul. ---------MJL< 75 y/o
TILL THIS DAY ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS OF ALL TIME GREAT ACTORS ON A GREAT SHOW R.I.P 🙏 TO ALL THE GREATS ON THE HONEYMOONERS LOVE YOUS ALL 🌟🌟🌟🌟✌️ THANK GOD FOR DVD'S I CAN WATCH THEM ANY TIME AND ENJOY THEM 👍
I'm sitting here laughing (wildly) like I've never seen these clips. I was just a little kid the first time around and didn't understand a lot of what they were saying, but the physical comedy did keep my attention. Now, all these years later, I totally understand the genius of Gleason.
Growing up I had the Inside TV Land: The Andy Griffith Show recorded off TV on VHS. Loved all of these. Quality programming made from quality programs. Loved it. Very candid interviews with the cast, Andy Griffith talking about his excessive drinking, Ken Berry on the rural purge. Wish I could find it somewhere
I & my siblings were brought up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, but not anywhere near where Jackie had lived. When the show scripts mention certain Streets and areas I simply love it though that isn't the only reason I love it...
For my money, Jackie Gleason & Art Carney and Walter Matthau & Jack Lemmon were the best comedy duos of all time. Can’t go wrong with either combination.
The photo of Jackie and Audrey at 53:12 is absolutely beautiful and sweet! Just shows a nice loving couple even if it is a fictional couple depicting what all of us long for in real life! Melts my heart and almost brings tears to my eyes at the beauty of it and the fact they're not hear anymore. 😢
Back in the 1980's when my late husband Steve and I were newly married and living in a basement studio, we'd stay up late on work nights to watch The Honeymooners reruns on cable. We laughed together over every punchline and every comic bit. Like two little kids, we'd later repeat some punchlines to each other and laugh again. Steve said I seemed to be like Alice, because of some things I'd say when I was feeling snarky. I always preferred the Honeymooners to sitcoms like Leave it to Beaver because it was way funnier and more familiar and "homey" to lower middle class people like us. Jackie, Art, Audrey and Joyce sure had talent and heart! Now at 67, I also remember how much I just loved Jackie Gleason's variety show (starting around 1966). Wish it was all back!
My favourite show, love it . Even when I watch repeats. What a wonderful cast.. I'm glad they changed Alice from the other lady. . I'm also glad that Norton and Jackie Gleason were sooo close , so they were able to keep working together. What a BEAUTIFUL group of people .
Pert Kelton I felt Pert was better than Audrey Meadows. However she was written out aka The Red Scare as it was founded out her husband was on the communist party.
Very few understand what this show did. My dad was destroyed by World War Two, PTSD, before it was invented. I was 5 years old and watched original shows, which changed my life. The humor just set me on fire. Beatles did the same, 1963, JFK assasination. Sidenote, met Alice when she was doing a book signing in Chicago in the 1980s. Wonderful person. Saw Jackie working in Chicago in 1986; nothing in Common; he was very sick but a joy to have seen in person.
I started watching the HONEYMOONERS in the fall of my senior year of high school(1970). I was watching the ten o'clock news and as usual it was all about the Vietnam War. Living in the Chicago suburbs we had a television channel (Wfld) on UHF that showed the HONEYMOONERS week nights at ten o'clock. I turned the channel to get a break from the news. Fifty plus years later and I still laugh at every punch line. Unlike other comedies from my youth, this show has stood the test of time will always be my favorite. on
I think I remember seeing this years ago. I also watched the 2002 special "the 50th anniversary of the Honeymooners" which was hosted by Kevin James from King of Queens. I've heard his show the King of Queens was inspired by the Honeymooners. Kevin James lived with his wife and drove a delivery truck similar to Ralph driving a bus. I've been wanting to see the 1985 Honeymooners reunion special with Gleason and Meadows but I haven't seen it on RU-vid. I wish someone would upload it.
My sister and I used to lie in adjacent beds in the house where we grew up and laugh until we coughed up our lungs. I was in my late 20s then, and Gleason became one of my heros due to this show. Now in my 60s I am about to get my first major tattoo - "One of these days, Alice -- BANG, ZOOM!!" Times have changed enough that sadly you wouldn't catch 'Honeymooners' on air today - so thank God for RU-vid!
Many people have commented that Ralph never hit Alice - as far as I know, that's true. But I remember two times when Ralph committed violence on "The Honeymooners." In one of the "Lost" episodes, he suspected Norton was having an affair with Alice, and eventually, Ralph punched Norton in the stomach. And in one of the "Classic" episode, a gangster tied up Norton and Alice and threatened to beat up Ralph - who then turned around and beat up the gangster!!
I've seen the surviving episodes with Pelt Kelton as Alice, and I really don't like them. And no disrespect to Pert, as I know nothing about her outside of playing Alice, but I don't think the show would've became the beloved classic it is today without Audrey Meadows as Alice.
Yes, Pert Kelton was awful as Alice. Fortunately Audrey Meadows came along and replaced. Kelton was blacklisted from Hollywood for her involvement in communist activities back in the 1950s.
