SUCH A CREEP lol i found this interview from a Tiktok about how amazing Lucille is shutting him down. he actually just died this month at 82 www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-12-03/david-sheehan-kcbs-knbc-obituary
It was amazing seeing Lucy in this light. You can see her professionalism - keeping things moving. Time is money. Answer as much as possible. Control the flow. Wow. I can see where everyone said she was truly smarter than her character. Amazing
I like the fact that she refused to be drawn into the 'should I quit school and be a comedian' debate. She simply refused, instead she made it the student's job to pick the brains of every professor he had, in every class he had to get at whatever nuggets would help him pursue his dream AND you can still study people and how they move/talk , watch the greats perform, and pursue opportunities. She never picked one priority over another.
I liked that too . I think she had gone there to build them up and not bring them down. She had basically given them a hint that the best way to learn is through performing. Also she probably figured if he wasn't sharp enough to realise that being a real comedian on stage compared to studying about comedians would be more beneficial towards becoming a real comedian, then even if she gave him directly the answer he wouldn't have succeeded with it. I'm sure she deep down would wish to tell them all to start writing and acting now and learn from those in the business, but as she mentions, the momma and pappa studios were gone. She gave another hint that she was learning as she went on I love Lucy.
This is timeless and should be shown to all entertainment majors.. NO ONE knew the business like Lucy and to have been a woman in an all boys club blows me away the level of success she had . I grew up in the 70’s watching her and miss her dearly.
Love her more than ever after this! I LOVE how she tells the guy to take his hands off the women! Love her confidence and control of the situation. Wish we saw more women in the media with such command of herself and career. LOVE LOVE LOVE
@@janelliot5643 She knew he was some kind of perv, who thought because he was on television and well known he can Pick up any chick...but these girls are teenagers and he a older man...being a creepy predator. It's funny he doesn't put his hands around the men he interviews but does it with young women like a creep...She knew he was being unprofessional inappropriate.
She is and always will be #1. Absolutely nothing has come close to the talent and from that the laughter. Her costars in I Love Lucy were phenomenal. Vivian Vance was and always will be my favourite supporting actor of all time. To date, there hasn't been anything that compares. What an extremely intelligent woman Lucy was. xo
This is the best interview/Q & A I've seen Lucy in. She was tough with people, professionally at least, but you can see she really enjoyed being with young students just starting out. And if you don't know and are interested, Desi Arnaz pioneered multi-cam sit-coms and recognized early on how important ownership of your show can be. Lucy and Desi built an impressive empire producing many shows, like Star Trek and The In-Laws. They owned 3 physical studios and one backlot. When she said she didn't like the comedies of the day, covering subjects like mastectomies and abortions, I'm pretty sure she was referencing ground breaking Norman Lear series like All In The Family and Maude.
I will say Lucille Ball is correct in that. I listened to a comedian this very evening and making fun of abortion, women's issues with men in the audience! The f word was thrown around and not funny at all! In addition, even though the comedy night was a fundraiser was in support of amputees, began a joke about them; someone fainted in the middle of it . I'll take the clean comedy I go to any day.
So little delay in her answers. She knew how she felt and what she thought and put it out there. If you agreed, fine, if not, fine, but she was very assured in how she saw things - in the comic world and the real world.
If Lucy told me not to touch the students, she wouldn't have to tell me again. I wonder if she had anything to say to him after the taping, and if he finally learned that lesson. Thank you for posting. This is yet another example of Lucy's grace, loving guidance and generosity of spirit, not necessarily the first things you think of when it came to Lucy, but wonderfully on display in appearances such as this, which assure us that Lucy will live forever!
He most likely didn’t learn, if he didn’t stop after the first time she asked in front of cameras, & a room full of people, then I’m positive he didn’t stop in private either.
----------- if the school/show didn't reward her monetary---------- she wouldn't of been anywhere near it ---------- Lucy got cantankerous w/ Q&A instead of answering the young lady's question she insulted her ----------- real real funny .... Don Rickles impersonation....
Lucy absolutely believed in perfect behavior in public ,one can see she was offended by the man casually putting an arm around those young students ,she believed it was a classroom and he could not take liberties with the students in her presence
This is super cool. A side of Lucy I don't think I've ever seen before. Her mind is like a steel trap, and she doesn't miss a thing. She was a visionary, who knew exactly where she was heading.. very pragmatic and matter-of-fact.. and had NO problem helping other talent on the way up (Carol Burnett, for example) She was the real deal. (The other thing that impresses me about this clip is the level of civility and social intelligence of the students asking the questions. Well dressed, articulate, no axe to grind... just seeking knowledge from one of the greatest professionals in the business. It's a beautiful exchange.)
In her later Years A friend of mine used to play back in with Lucille Ball and she said that her mind was incredible she could never win a game that she was a killer on the board
This was a great show. These students got so much information from someone who worked from the bottom up and eventually had her own company. What an intelligent and talented woman she was.
You can sure tell by Lucy’s body language and glances; she was not impressed with David AT ALL. Thank you Lucy for advocating for consent & boundaries.
"Down the toilet!" Boy, was she spot on when she said that about the comedy of that day. Mind you, it was 1978 when she said that, and here we are in 2021, and the comedy of today comes straight from the sewers of filth and perversion.
And I got the impression she was slightly annoyed that he implied that her show wasn't "sophisticated enough" comedy for 1978. It wasn't that the I Love Lucy show wasn't "sophisticated" it's just that it was innocent. And that kind of comedy was true art and almost entirely gone today.
Another new Lucy treat! I think this is the first time I have seen all the footage posted here for this thanks!!! Love when new hidden gems pop up & you really get a good glimpse of her personality here too.
Yeah I see lucy was very uncomfortable with that guy holding a microphone, who kept touching the girls...I liked that she called him out, because it's creepy. Lucy straight up told him Stop touching those girls...Men back than were perverted and got away with it.
@@aldofhister6859 grow up will you. Back then women didn't speak up and Lucy had the balls to make things more equal. If you want to live in the dark ages go for it but don't be calling anyone names that's so middle school and does not bode well for you. Makes you appear out-of-date with a negative attitude.
Lucy seems to be a very fast thinking, curt and down to business like sort of person. She doesn't mess around and waste time with frivolous B.S. I would have liked to have seen the Harvey Korman episode.
Seems like she gave really good, useful, valuable advice/tips. Stuff that would even qualify today. I appreciated when she explained how you have to know what you'd be willing to do in show business because employers will just make you sweep if you don't have an objective.
Ms Ball was the subject of a article in a financial magazine when she was CEO of Desilu and its captioned "Actress-Tycoon". Apt! Lucy ran Desilu with an iron fist and thru a development deal with CBS that network funded some of Desilu's pilots.The results were Mission Impossible and Mannix. Star Trek was funded by NBC. Lucy to this day remains the only woman to actually run a Studio ( I know there have been women as Heads of Production) I wish one of the students in this Interview asked Lucy about her Executive side. In addition to those TV shows, she ran the Lucy Show and produced thru UA Yours Mine And Ours as a Desilu picture. Lucy also filmed Lucy in London the first and only International production.
What Lucille Ball really wanted to do was work as an actor, so she really disliked having to run a business. She did it because she was forced to. She loved performing. No if this she delegated as much of the management of Desilu to professional businessmen (and, yes in fact, they were all men) as she possibly could. She and Desi continued to talk and consult with one another long after she had bought him out of the studio and I don’t think she ever made a significant decision without consulting Desi.
@@inkyguy you are correct. They were close til he passed. She never stopped loving him, she just couldnt live with his behavior anymore. She said as such many times.
I love what Lucille Ball said about where comedy is going. I remember when comedy was clean and people made fun of themselves. Last evening, I went to a comedy fundraiser and exactly as Lucille said, jokes were made about abortion. No funny matter. And the f word was thrown around so many times and I wanted to walk out. There is clean comedy available and my husband and I attend when we can. Hilarious! No f words, no making fun of sex or using God's name in vain. That is rare today.
Satanists use laughter to mask the ugliness of the things they speak about. Abortion is tragic, not funny at all. It's the death of Fetuses and deserves respect.
@@lorimiller4301 laughter is an emotion and an obvious response to a joke. You may have read my post incorrectly. No where did I say that abortion is laughable. I am saying that people do laugh at those things & it is usually the delivery of the way it is said. Of course it's not laughable. I laugh at a lot of things but not at the above of what I originally stated.
@@annettefluit3496 Respectfully disagree. Seinfeld jokes about Hitler. People have to laugh at the painful things in life. Sometimes they joke tastelessly (that's a matter of subjective opinion), sometimes tastefully. But that's for individual audiences to decide, and U.S. civil liberty includes letting George Carlin ring in his generation of comedians with his own kind of jokes. Heck, the Marx Brothers were extremely bawdy, and they made the depression era survivable emotionally. That was before the ultra-conservative 1950s. The beauty of the I Love Lucy show is the situational comedy they wrote and enacted translates across many generations and cultures. It isn't about "clean" or "unclean" jokes as much as it was about the heart of the matter, the humanity.
Keep in mind that Lucy had a radio program with a radio husband. When they wanted to make it a TV show they wouldnt accept Desi Arnaz as her TV husband. So Lucy and Desi travelled on the road and did a routine together just to see if people would like it and people loved it. So they went back to the tv executives showing they were a hit and thus Desi and Lucy created I Love Lucy together. Lucy had such a profound respect for performance and film and theater. Desi also. Everything Lucy speaks of or advises she did herself to the highest degree. She never had ego, only the highest professionalism. I bow to her a thousand times. She brings me joy every day with I Love Lucy.
Thank you so much for this; Lucy knew then the downward turn in comedy, television and movies. I have no use for today's movies, television and cable news; I only have time for the old 1930, 1940, 1950s classics.
Lucy was BRILLIANT! I always thought she was BEAUTIFUL...the gift of getting old is that I can now binge-watch "I LOVE LUCY" and most of the shows are "new" again....the memory fades and while you might remember scenes, the show is brand new....
It's nice to see how those kids treated her with respect and we're happy to have her there, after she did her last show she really got a lot of nasty letters telling her she was too old and I think it broke her heart
Oh my God, I cringed when Andy asked if she thought the television audiences of 1978 were too sophisticated for Lucy's comedy of the 50s. That's crazy how laid-back they are with the goddess of television. I love how she shot him down with like you had your three questions Andy. XD
All comedy ages extremely quickly and the only ones that survive become timeless, but as Lucy said, more for younger people. If the guy was as smart as he thought he was then he wouldn't have bothered to ask the question. I agree it seemed rude.
I Love Lucy the show and love Lucille Ball - have been in 3 professions: teaching, social work and psychology. My primary care physician still loves the show, and a friend's mother from India, was a business woman, a social worker and a lawyer - also runs a NGO for tribals in India - We are educated - and still love the show. I do think the show is timeless, and will still bring laughter to different ages, cultures and different levels of education or sophistication. I love some female comics out there and they are bawdy with a lot of "language"in their acts. However the ones I am thinking of are very funny and I enjoy them too. However I do not look them up to see the same shows several times over. Loved different people in the past - The Honeymooners for example, but again, saw the shows when they first came out, have not re-seen them since.
(guest) Hello! Very interesting to hear Lucy's views and advice. I am 71 now, and remember in the 1950's seeing Lucy's very entertaining shows. I have tried to find out about one very funny scene where she was to!d not to be inquisitive about what was in a cupboard ( closet), but she couldn't resist peeking, then a self inflating dinghy suddenly " went off", filling the closet, and making it impossible to hide . Does anyone know the title of that episode, please? I love dipping into you tube to see o!d t.v. shows and movies, that Ive never seen before. I was pleased to find out recently that Lucy was a great pal of Carol Burnett, whose sketches can be so hilarious : I love " Went with the Wind ". Also there are hundreds of very enjoyable variety shows, e.g., Andy Williams, Perry Como, Dean Martin... ☺🌷
You're conflating Lucille Ball with Mary Tyler Moore (no pun intended). While the scene you describe sounds like it came right out of a "Lucy" episode, and there are similarly themed "Lucy" episodes (e.g., "Sentimental Anniversary" from I LOVE LUCY, where Lucy discovered Ricky's anniversary gift to her and recruits Ethel to help her open it, and "Lucy and the Ceramic Cat" from THE LUCY SHOW, where Mr. Mooney asks Lucy to hold onto a birthday gift he bought for his wife and Lucy can't contain her curiosity), what you have in mind is actually an episode of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW, in which Laura's curiosity about a package meant for Rob gets the best of her. The episode is "The Curious Thing About Women" and it's right here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OnPTsya56-8.html
A unpretentious down to earth woman who knew what she wanted and was so focused on her career. It never went to her head, it was a job, a career which she put all of herself in to it. Blunt, forward , charmless woman. A New Yorker gal who doesn’t mince words and isn’t afraid to speak her truth. She approached her career as a man did during a time that women were not taken seriously in the workplace.
You can certainly tell that she ran a Studio!! A true Boss! I was a kid in Middle School in 78 but me and my friends were into acting and singing and production tech and most of us later became actors and people who worked behind the scenes in TV and Film. The 70s and 80s were such inspirational times to grow up for all of us future Entertainment Industry people regardless of our professional directions that we ended up taking!! Thanks for Posting this. Me and my friend got to attend a Q and A session that was similar once with Blake Edwards.. the Pink Panther director. It was a lot of fun!!
Instead of bossy which a couple of comments said (all men) i would say Lucy has a take charge personality. Look what she accomplished! Being a pansy doesnt get u anywhere. In her early movies Lucy was unique and out of the mode of the demeure female. Look how she hustled to get ann southern's rejected roles. Women (and men) need to learn from Lucy. and i like how she doesnt stomach fools. The guy with the 3 questions was a pompous, self-centered fool. I'm gad Lucy stopped him.
It seems as though Brenda has a better hold on who Lucy truly is then the others here commenting. Lucy lived during a time that women were not taken seriously, esp in the role of take charge. She had to role the nest when Desi was no longer around, and those among her tried telling her what to do all the time, just like Desi did. Lucy was a worker, and why you think Brenda is the pompous one I think is ridiculous, You write as though you are the pompous one from the audience. If you listened, she was not being impatient, she said at the beginning, that her time was limited and she wanted to talk to as many of them as she cold, She was VERY patient with his 3 questions, which I wouldn't have been, there are more people wanted to talk to her then that jackass who wanted to steal all of her time. He just wouldn't shut up and sit down, him and his freaking paper of notes and questions.
thesix107 Feminism has nothing to do with her comment. You brought it up because you have a problem with accepting a strong, opinionated woman as being normal. Women come in all personalities, but when women entered the male dominated workforce they had all kinds of unflattering labels thrown at them, especially in corporate positions. We’re all human beings first and foremost - remember that..
"Taking charge" is what a boss does and is synonymous with being "bossy." You're just nitpicking semantics in order to thrust your agenda into here. The topic of gender doesn't come up in the show.
Lucy wasn't no dope! Being in show biz & Hollywood all them years.... no sir, take your hands off the women, I know how that crap goes & what you're doing & up to!!! God bless her!!!
Isle of You, Lucy: for being such a STRONG lady in the notoriously tough world of show biz & I commend her for one big thing: she did NOT believe in gossiping about her peers (in movies, too). Vivian Vance, as much as I loved her used to brag "see, we ARE just as famous as movie stars!" = that would make Lucy cringe: she thought of her work as a job, God Bless her; and she was a very hard-working person. No, she was far from perfect - but she has never been equalled.
what a complete gem of a clip. wow. to just see lucy as herself is incredible. what an incredible person. so strong, real. astute, no-nonsense. and such incredible knowledge and love for comedy, performance, and acting. just incredible. if only i could ask her questions too. she was wonderful in her early movies. and so unique. look at her hoola dance clip when she was a very young woman. but so much more. It's a shame her husband was there. nobody would have been able to ask any questions about desi. i wish this show could have been longer. this is a rare tape.
@Piatequila no I have been a Lucy fan all of my life and I collect Lucille Ball stuff. All types. Why do you have to put people down for things that they enjoy? I think people who have to go on different channels to put people down is the one who has a unhappy life. I'm completely happy. So what is your excuse?
Great interview with Lucy but she did get one thing wrong there were a lot of good shows in 1978 like Happy Days,all in the family ,laverne and shirley threes company , the love boat, more and mindy, chips , Charlie's angels, and the list goes on , its worse today, there are no more good classic comedies today , today is worse should be rolling over in her grave right now.😎
27 minutes and the guy has 3 questions with a room full of other people who may want to ask? What a thrill it would be for the girl to do the commercial for Lucy! Lucy is epic, there’s no one to compare to her. I adore her.
Wish Lucy were here for the #METOO movement. She pointed out at least 3 times how creepy David Sheehan was. Good for her! I think this show is wonderful!
Love lucy...but an obvious control freak...coming from her daughter....the woman who wanted to recite the vityavegamin...and lucy cut her off....enuf said..lol
My 9 year older half sister was at UCLA at this time (unusually young for a college strident) and is now 61. Used to attend some of her classes with her as a little kid. Wish I’d known about this-would have insisted that we attend!
Lucille Ball was awesome! They called her the Queen of B pictures. Probably because she had morals and a strict code of conduct she couldn’t quite break through because she refused to sleep her way to the top.
You can tell it's 1978, The Disco Lucy theme, by the Wilton Place street band is in the background instead of the old I love Lucy theme, ah love the 70s
This would appear to be the only existing episode of this show. They used the Disco Lucy theme on this episode, but the regular theme to this show (heard at the beginning) was a wonderful piece of music written by Don Costa. I'd love to get a clean copy somehow...it's never turned up anywhere.
Must've been the one episode of "America Alive!" that was worth watching (Lucy makes anything worth watching) From what I heard, that show outside this episode was so bland and dull even for the 70s
Sounds like she was going after "Maude" based on the subject areas she panned as fodder for comedy. Ironic, since her movie "Mame," which was not so successful, featured Bea Arthur. I loved "I Love Lucy," and liked her 2 subsequent shows most of the time. But "Maude" was terrific, also. She would probably really pan many of today's tacky sitcoms which are mainly prolonged "sex jokes," at least the last time I gave one a try and then switched the channel back to PBS, as apparently so did Lucy by this point.
I was amazed to learn she mentored many famous stars like Tom Cruise ,Arnold Schwarzenegger and Reese witherspoon among many others...she could spot talent alright
My family has been watching Lucy for 4 generations and I can Honestly say as a teenager, That the I Love Lucy show is my favorite tv show, of all time even in 2022.
Also, last year I bought a burlap bag that I use every day as a purse - also can put a book I am currently reading or other sundry items in it. It has a big picture on the front of Lucille Ball and the words Boss Lady. A friend's mother, who came to visit her from India, loved the bag and I bought her one too. She sent a pic of her with it when back in India. - Lucy translates to all cultures. Also recently saw my primary care physician who is about 15 years younger than I - she admired the bag and said that Vitavetavegamin was her favorite episode. I bought her a coffee mug with Lucy on the front of it doing the commercial. She loved it and said she used it daily for her morning cup of coffee.
I graduated high school in 1979 and my dream college was UCLA. I wanted to study musical score. My parents from Indiana did not encourage that and they had the money so I did not go. My life would have been so much better if I had gone.
Good advice. Taking advantage of all opportunities to learn. Seems like she was alluding to the Norman Lear comedies in her disappointment with 70s sitcoms. And any others like those.
What made Lucy such a marvel is that in real life, Lucy was a VERY serious person: a *great actress* was LaBall Only felt she should have got off TV after "The Lucy Show"..."I Love Lucy' is *pure gold* - it will outlive as all. A wonderful thing to leave to the world.
I loved reading about the kerfuffle when Liz and Dick appeared on Lucy's show. Burton revealed that Lucy was exasperated with both of them, but was more deferential to Elizabeth. Richard also revealed that Lucille felt compelled to teach Richard how to play comedy: shout every word as loud as you can. Elizabeth had a nickname for Lucille, Miss _ _ _ _, which I won't repeat. Lucille enlisted the Burtons in an attempt to steal some ratings from Laugh-In, and she succeeded.
Burton ranted against lucille ball for trying to get her money's worth from his performance and got the highest ratings of the series for her efforts while Richard Burton mumbled his way to oblivion and obscurity As for the classless Liz Taylor who called lucy names she is notorious only for multiple marriages and being drunk on public platforms ,while lucy became a legend who lives on in the hearts of her fans to this day
@@deepachand9689 Taylor was very humble about her own abilities, and I recall laughing years ago when she- (2-time Oscar winner) described herself: "I wasn't so bad." She knew she wasn't very respected as a great actress. But what a great beauty and down-to-earth personality she was. Also, I admired her for her AIDS-related charity work. This began during Reagan, who had no particular problem with a certain demographic dying.
Actually Liz Taylor and Richard Burton approached Lucy about being on The Lucy Show. She agreed and it was the most expensive show ever. The reason why there was conflict was because of Burton's drinking - came late, mumbled or did not know his lines, etc. and drank.
Her sitcom answer was why she became obsolete the seventies and eighties were the golden age of tv .she'd drop dead all over again if she saw what tv is in 2019!!
Even in the eighties and nineties there where still good shows on TV I remember being a kid in the eighties and seeing a lot of good shows on tv also .
It might have had something to do with when she did the Marx Brothers film, "Room Service". I remember reading that they got kinda dirty during it- I think.
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