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These were the days of real entertainment. I have over 300 channels on my TV and none of it’s worth watching. Two legends of TV, Jackie, Gleeson, and Frank Fontaine. Rest in peace.❤
METV comes close. I find myself watching that and a few others that show the old shows from the 50s, 60s and 70s. The GRIT channel shows al those old westerns, too.
I can remember back to when I turned 4 years old my father would let me stay up "late" and watch The Jackie Gleason Show back in the e 60's and I remember I Always looked Foward to seeing "Crazy Guggenheim"( Frank Fontaine), and Jackie Gleason as "Joe the Bartender"!! That was such a big-deal for me, really special.....😊
I remember this routine..Crazy says to Joe the Bartender - "Hey Joe, I got a riddle for ya...What's red and goes ding-dong?" "I dunno, Craze..whats red and goes ding-dong?"....(pause for effect) "A red dig-dong! (Crazy laughs)."Hey Joe, I got another one for ya...What's BLUE and goes ding-dong?" With a Cheshire Cat smile on his face, Joe says "a BLUE ding-dong!" Crazy answers sadly "No, they only come in red!" 😂
It is hard to believe that it has been 60 years since this great stuff was on TV every Saturday night. The Jackie Gleason "American Scene Magazine" was one of the best comedy shows ever put on TV. I miss those days and too bad we can't be like this today. Jackie was on Johnnie Carson one time and it is an interview worth watching.
According to his manager the ratings went through the roof when Mr. Fountaine played Guggenheim. When this man opened his mouth I couldn't stop laughing. I spent a Christmas with Mr. Fountaine and his manager's family and went home with extremely sore stomach and sides from laughter. He was one of a kind. I never expected an entertainer to be as thoughtful as he was.
While Guggenheim was a wonderfully played comedic persona, the actor genuinely had a great voice! And it was nice to see Gleason NOT having to act like a riled, angry guy but simply be a regular fella interacting with a customer who is a buddy.
I just had to publicly acknowledge this. What character ! What personality? What TALENT!!! If there were people like this in 1963. Then WHY can't there be people like that today in 2023! When you get a taste of talent like THAT and you see what they have NOW. Don't be surprised if you say. What the HECK!
No wonder they called Jackie Gleason “The Great One”! He was more interested with entertaining than he was at just making a name for himself. He used to end his program as “Joe the Bartender” who would always get upstaged by Frank Fontaine as “Crazy Guggenheim”, who never failed to leave us laughing out loud. Sometimes Frank Fontaine would show what a talented singer he was by singing a number as well!
When I was a kid way back then, every Saturday night we watched the “Jackie Gleason Show.” Joe and Crazy were always my favorite skit. I probably watched it back in 1963 and have maybe seen it a few times since. Thanks for taking me back to a much simpler time!!!
Not just on TV but in real life, these two guys really liked each other. It shows through the camera. It was a great routine that will always warm your heart and make you laugh. Just pure gold.
I still remember this little gag, from way back when it wasn't reruns. Craze: "I just saw, in the department store window, a new kind of TV: a two-color TV!" Joe: "Two color?" Craze: "Yeah. Black and white!"
...I used'ta memorize the jokes on Saturday night and tell them in school the following week...when I started teaching - God got even with me and gave students just I like was...
Remember these skits way way back. We always watched the Jackie Gleason show. And Jack Benny. Ed Sullivan. Ozzie and Harriet. Father Knows Best. And others.
Because today there are no juke boxes anywhere that I know of .Even music has to be inclusive, tolerant, LBGTQ etc. liberal, pro Antifa, pro Black Lives Matter.
@@gregorypalmer5403 I am with you Dice back in 1966 I put in a dime in a jukebox in a restaurant where my late parents and my uncle's family were having dinner in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC and played Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra! I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era.
"He's a Farquat" Crazy Guggenheim-Frank Fontaine would repeat that phrase over and over while all agitated and worked up, as if in a state of extreme anger until Joe finally calmed him down. I'll love these guys always and hope we meet in heaven, God Bless!
