@mike bond His nickname "Mean Gene" - reportedly bestowed by wrestler Jesse Ventura - as a joking homage to his understated personality on camera. Source: 'Mean Gene' Okerlund, gentlemanly announcer of pro wrestling, dies at 76 www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/ct-spt-mean-gene-okerlund-dies-20190102-story.html
@@paridi4093 That man was a genius. It hurts my heart that he suffered that cancer in his mouth and lost his money maker. Pretty sure he had plenty of money in his retirement period, but still that is no way for a man of his stature to have to live in his last days.
I grew up in Memphis in the 80 s watching local Saturday morning wrestling with Jerry Lawler,Kamala and jimmy Heart 😂. Kamala would scare me as a kid. Little did I know The Ugandan Giant lived a few miles from me 😂
After Iron Sheik passed away a few days ago, I had to see this video again. The whole thing is great, but specifically I wanted to see Sheik and the turkey again! Great stuff.
I love these. Unless you're older you can't understand how furiously the industry protected kayfabe. We just didn't know these guys the way we know modern wrestlers. It's so fun to to see these guys being themselves.
"So many characters" Truer words have never been spoken. Too many wrestlers these days are too generic, but back then and during the Attitude Era, the wrestlers seemed more diverse in terms of gimmicks and personalities. (Although it went a bit too far during the "Cartoon" Era, otherwise known as the New Generation Era)
@@jeremyc9593 And they try to substitute their lack of character with high risk flippy dippy shit. Problem is, no one has character so they ALL do the flippy dippy shit.
They definitely need to release them all. I know it will never happen because of the language, but if they ever released them on their WWE Network, I would gladly subscribe.
@@jeremyc9593 "I know it will never happen because of the language" You do realize that Camp WWE exists? A show made in the modern era that is TV-MA and completely adult only? This is nothing.
@@char7403 I don't know, as I don't watch anything on there, and was just judging by the current product. It'll still never happen, but that gives a little bit of hope.
The Iron Sheik one at the end was hysterical. Here he was just rattling off names and sounding serious and everyone he kept rattling off entered the shot ... many with a serious face just going along with his rambling.
You know it started off serious, and after a point, I promise you he had to have gone, "Ok, let's see how far this can go before either people don't show up, or they just break."
I almost woke the house up laughing so hard at Sgt Slaughter talking about the thousands of military people in the soil and that his mother is buried in the same soil and Gene had to back out because he couldn’t hide his laughter, only returning wiping tears from his face. So funny!
I don't think he was wiping tears from his face, I think he was pretending to continually dry his face off, as a rib to tease Slaughter about his unintentionally spitting on people when he talks to them because of his lisp. It was a known thing back in the 80's that Slaughter would unintentionally have spit flying out of his mouth during promos and the boys would joke about it. I forget who, but in one of the shoot videos someone was joking that they use to want to wear goggles when talking to Slaughter, because he would lisp-spit often. LOL
I watched this guy as a kid and I thought anyone could do his job, until you see how many people can't. This guy has such a perfect voice, and was so good at this gig that he makes it look so easy. He was so good at helping the heels get heat and make the faces look good.
RIP James Harris.... He sold the living hell out of that character. A buddy of mine was going to wrestling school and working in a couple of small promotions, got a spot on one of the WWF syndicated shows to job for Kamala, said he was the ultimate professional and took great care of him in the ring.
@@jammiedodger Pretty sure kayfabe was still pretty sacred even during the 90s. Remember the curtain call incident of 1996 and how triple h was the one punished for it. He was already bound to win king of the ring instead it was given to austin.
Greg Valentine came to Iraq on a USO tour in 2008. I met him when I picked them up from the flight line, Jimmy Hart was with the group. They were two of the nicest people you could ever meet. I was never a wrestling fan but I can't say enough good things about the two.
No disrespect to you,Jimmy or Greg but you're picking them up in IRAQ so Maybe they were being so polite to you because they were probably shitting themselves and their lives were in your hands..lol
I was there when they were on that tour. They visited us at COB Speicher. I was always a big fan of Jimmy Hart and being able to chat with him was a memory Ill never forget. Really nice guy.
When will the suits at the WWE Network realize that THIS is the kind of stuff we want to see!!?? With kayfabe long dead & buried, they are sitting on a gold mine of all those local promos, different takes of vignettes, etc. They own the libraries of multiple promotions, there's got to be miles of stuff like this...just saying.
@@sillygoose635 Uhh, shoot interviews everywhere, WWE basically admitting DURING their programming it's all a performance, the fact virtually no one who attends matches anymore is being legitimately "kayfabed" since 75 to 80% know at least the basic interworkings of the business VS. back in the 1980's when I'd say, including the kids, 60 to 70% DIDN'T know the inner workings of the business and probably believed some, if not all of what they were seeing being presented! How the hell ISN'T kayfabe dead?
Since Kamala's recent passing, this video shows a side of him that I think a lot of people would have missed. He was genuinely hilarious outside of the ring. Rest in piece, the Ugandan giant
@queensberry Q - OK, there's that. I was more looking at the perspective of wrestlers breaking character, but the content is questionable in this circumstance.
queensberry Q awwwww did that make u uncomfortable? People weren’t pussies back then, and could joke about anything without people being bitches and getting offended. U would have never survived
Miss Mean Gene. Absolute legend. Huge part of my 80s/90s childhood wrestling experiences along with Bobby the Brain and The Gorilla. Great times. Cherished memories.
Gene's son was a NHL player who went to college at Minnesota and even after he left the AWA for WWF Gene would hold court in downtown Minneapolis pubs like Runyon's and Monte Carlo of Friday afternoons. He was a blast and there weren't many women half his age that didn't garner his attention. He was a hedonistic man of the 70s/80s for sure.
Classic footage. Thanks for the upload. I saw the Sheik once signing autographs in a flea market in London, Ontario in the 2000s. People were lining up and so happy to see him.
kenneth i hope you can find more of these. this was truly heart warming as i grew up to all of these characters. its awesome to see the people behind these characters be themselves as well
@@shaunclifton5281 yea i heard about that. I think they took his other leg or was that some time back? I also heard that wrestling thing out in Vegas gave him an award that supposed to had paid for his house that he was about to lose. I hope thats true and not bs . He deserves something since well u know the story right ..
True, but think when the goofing around stops the thousands of promos Gene had to do over the years for every market, the same match-ups, holding the mic up to the same guys for 40 house shows you have to be enthusiastic about. Everyone I've heard on podcasts from the old days said that interview day was a looong day.
These things look like so much fun! I've done wrestling interviews and the outtakes are usually better than the interviews themselves! This was hilarious to watch and I bet was fun and funny as hell to be there!
I have this saved to my watchlist and any time i need a laugh, this does it every time. So many greats passed and no longer with us, but through RUclips Mean Gene is still here to entertain us!
Not only that, but seeing Gene nearly bust out laughing when Slaughter talked about his dead mother was hilarious. Dude had to hand off the mic and get out of the shot.
Gene yelling, "pass the fuckin' potatoes" had me rolling 🤣🤣🤣
I'm just glad that Greg "The Hammer" Valentine sure the hell does pass the f@#$ing potatoes
@@gr8daynegb why censor it? It's stupid.
I don't get it
@@UrOpinionsSucc It's fucking stupid.
That is comedy gold!
RIP Mean Gene Okerlund. You were one of a kind.
Best "stick man" in the business!
@mike bond His nickname "Mean Gene" - reportedly bestowed by wrestler Jesse Ventura - as a joking homage to his understated personality on camera.
Source:
'Mean Gene' Okerlund, gentlemanly announcer of pro wrestling, dies at 76
www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/ct-spt-mean-gene-okerlund-dies-20190102-story.html
Rip Henen
@@paridi4093 That man was a genius. It hurts my heart that he suffered that cancer in his mouth and lost his money maker. Pretty sure he had plenty of money in his retirement period, but still that is no way for a man of his stature to have to live in his last days.
RIP Mean Gene Okerlund ~(^..)
John Studd popping in with the “What’d he do Gene?!?” was so hilarious.
huge man as well
innit hahaha he reminded me of Lennie from of mice and men
RIP Studd
If Vince was smart, he would find all of these outtakes and put them on the network.
Kayfabe is hurt, not dead.
@@wajahatbaloch132 No its dead and buried. Wish it wasnt.
@@jaylucien669 it's got one hand out the grave like the Undertaker. Haha
I am sure they have stuff from the 70s back when the WWWF was regional.
Wajahat Baloch you knowing the word Kayfabe means it’s dead!
Iron Sheik claiming that the Turkey looks like Hulk Hogan lmao
That was great!
I wish I grew up with The Iron Sheik. Instead I grew up with Colonel Mustafa.
Jericho robbed sheiky baby with the "stupid idiot" line.
@@troublesomewestsideoutlaw5754 Jericho Stole a Lot from from the Old Timers
And then spits on it!
Volkoff's laugh at the beginning is one of the purest things I've ever heard
Considering that, IRL, He's a Damn Good Singer ... According to Many that Were Close to Josep/Nikolai
Shiek potatoed the turkey love heenan
RIP Nikolai/Josep
The silly smile on his face while he was singing was hilarious. He is probably from North Carolina or something in reality.
@@GVGames1986 Croatia 🇭🇷 ... Defected in the 60s During a Powerlifting Competition in Yugoslavia to Canada 🇨🇦 to Train with Stu Hart
Mean Gene will forever be a legend. His voice and clarity was absolutely perfect.
Forever will!
Man you're not kidding
They way he says "INNERCONNENNEL" is legendary.
I love right around the 6 minute mark where Kamala's face goes from being in character to realizing Gene is breaking his balls about missing a promo
"oh shit, did I hear that right?!"
Then got him back with the fu*ky fu*ky comment
Kamala was hilarious.
his excuse "I don't speak english." in a southern accent.
I grew up in Memphis in the 80 s watching local Saturday morning wrestling with Jerry Lawler,Kamala and jimmy Heart 😂. Kamala would scare me as a kid. Little did I know The Ugandan Giant lived a few miles from me 😂
only... ONLY Iron Sheik could spit on a live turkey and have everyone laughing
He humbled it... 🐓
@@marklogan8112 - I didn't see that part...
the iron sheik was a bad ass.
Heenan: He potatoed the turkey! ROLLING
Kamala goes "58 inch arms and 22 inch chest!" lol
It's still weird to me to see Gene Okerland with such a dirty mouth lol
He was always the definition of class when I was a kid.
Tommy Hallum his name is Mean Gene
Same here. I thought he was so straight and narrow. Another piece of my childhood just got another dose of reality.
Yes....But it was so fucking funny
PONDEROUS MAN! FUCKING PONDEROUS!-Casey Kasem
Holy Balls!
0:52 Sheik saving the turkey will never fail to bring a smile to my face.
After Iron Sheik passed away a few days ago, I had to see this video again. The whole thing is great, but specifically I wanted to see Sheik and the turkey again! Great stuff.
AH PUU
I love these. Unless you're older you can't understand how furiously the industry protected kayfabe. We just didn't know these guys the way we know modern wrestlers. It's so fun to to see these guys being themselves.
True that but what makes it even better is that there r heels being funny lol
Whats even better is that all of these interviews are pretty much done on the spot by the wrestlers, no scripts...
Writing Director: Kaye Fabe
Amd we still don't know The Iron Shiek.
Absolutely right!!! When I was growing up, kayfabe was huge! I love this video.
"...and only 12 cases of rape, not bad for the weekend" I LOST IT!!!!!
yeh same. i was hurting from laughing so much
Mean Gene Okerlund: fondly remembered, dearly missed.
Kamala's face at 6:02 when Gene is clowning him bout missing interviews! Lmfao! TOTALLY BROKE CHARACTER! I LOVE IT😂😂😂😂
One of my favorite moments in WWE tbh. A pure look of "heyyy wait a sec"
Mean Gene. Hands down the greatest interviewer ever and one of the best wrestling personalities of all time. An absolute legend.
WWF in the 80's looks like it was such a wacky and fun place to work. So many characters
The Dynamite Kid would disagree
CrazyKraken So would jacques rougeau
I doubt the guys working 340 nights a year would classify it as “fun.”
"So many characters" Truer words have never been spoken. Too many wrestlers these days are too generic, but back then and during the Attitude Era, the wrestlers seemed more diverse in terms of gimmicks and personalities. (Although it went a bit too far during the "Cartoon" Era, otherwise known as the New Generation Era)
@@jeremyc9593 And they try to substitute their lack of character with high risk flippy dippy shit. Problem is, no one has character so they ALL do the flippy dippy shit.
WWE needs to release these outtakes or put them on the network as a tribute to Mean Gene.
They definitely need to release them all. I know it will never happen because of the language, but if they ever released them on their WWE Network, I would gladly subscribe.
@@jeremyc9593 "I know it will never happen because of the language"
You do realize that Camp WWE exists? A show made in the modern era that is TV-MA and completely adult only? This is nothing.
@@char7403 I don't know, as I don't watch anything on there, and was just judging by the current product. It'll still never happen, but that gives a little bit of hope.
@@jeremyc9593 What's wrong with you gene?
Yes !
Mean Gene swearing in that rich voice of his is a gift.
The Iron Sheik one at the end was hysterical. Here he was just rattling off names and sounding serious and everyone he kept rattling off entered the shot ... many with a serious face just going along with his rambling.
You know it started off serious, and after a point, I promise you he had to have gone, "Ok, let's see how far this can go before either people don't show up, or they just break."
Kamala- "I dont speak English while speaking English"
PASS THE FUCKN. POTATOES!!!!!
blue skyz Love her response “Certainly the hell does.”
That made me laugh!
😂😂😂
🖕🥔🤣🤦💀💀
The thing about Greg Valentine at Thanksgiving dinner, is it takes him about fifteen minutes to warm up and start eating.
Love this. RIP Fink, Gene, Bobby, & everyone else that is no longer with us.
Now the Iron Sheik
@@michaele.francis RIP Bubba! FHH!
I think Greg Valentine is the only in this video that’s still alive.
Thinking that the majority of the people are gone, really hits hard...
Really loved seeing these guys laugh
I thought the Iron Sheik was gonna rip the head of the turkey. Lol
That's what I was waiting on too !
Same
I SWEAR TURKEY FLY!- The Iron Shiek
Lol. I was getting nervous when he opened the cage and grabbed it by the neck, considering they had more of an "anything goes" attitude back then.
EXXACTLYYY...
I almost woke the house up laughing so hard at Sgt Slaughter talking about the thousands of military people in the soil and that his mother is buried in the same soil and Gene had to back out because he couldn’t hide his laughter, only returning wiping tears from his face. So funny!
I don't think he was wiping tears from his face, I think he was pretending to continually dry his face off, as a rib to tease Slaughter about his unintentionally spitting on people when he talks to them because of his lisp. It was a known thing back in the 80's that Slaughter would unintentionally have spit flying out of his mouth during promos and the boys would joke about it. I forget who, but in one of the shoot videos someone was joking that they use to want to wear goggles when talking to Slaughter, because he would lisp-spit often. LOL
@@thomass789 DX in 97(on raw) put visor helmets with wipers on it during a slaughter promo
It's probably because Mean Gene noticed he might have thrown Slaughter offguard with he soil and Slaughter made it work
Funniest thing I've seen the entire pandemic. Made my month.😅
Yeah slaughter keeps fucking up words and sentences lol he really did not practice that one gene can’t take it. Hahahah fuck
"Kamala what's this shit about missing interviews" LOL Gene brought out the best in every way possible with every wrestler.
Do a little of the f**ky f**ky
Seeing Nikolai Volkoff laugh his ass off at the beginning is just heartwarming
I could watch this type of footage for 24 hrs straight.
Me too
So could i
You're mot the only one who could! By the way, I gave you a GREAT, BIG, HUMONGOUS "thumb's up" for your comment!!!
The last thing I expected going into this was Howard Finkel impersonating Howard Cosell!
And a damn good one too. lol
RIP Fink.
An excellent impersonating!
That was Fink?
@@billblaski9523 yes
Nikolay's smile and laugh are both hilarious and heartwarming! Rest in peace big guy
Hopefully you weren't in charge of the headstone.
Nikolai*
@@stacyhamilton2619 Leo Nardo's Discount Headstones
I watched this guy as a kid and I thought anyone could do his job, until you see how many people can't. This guy has such a perfect voice, and was so good at this gig that he makes it look so easy. He was so good at helping the heels get heat and make the faces look good.
Bobby Heenan : He potatoed the turkey!!!
😂🤣😂
He used to direct and produce all these promos
I loved that bit
And then he stuffed it
@@gladfan1989And he humbled it
The Kamala section is my favourite section when he breaks character
Hi Mom,Hi Dad!
To bad we have to deal with a another "Kamala" for the next four years......
@@waynemuldrow4066 that’s democracy for you
RIP James Harris.... He sold the living hell out of that character. A buddy of mine was going to wrestling school and working in a couple of small promotions, got a spot on one of the WWF syndicated shows to job for Kamala, said he was the ultimate professional and took great care of him in the ring.
Bobby Heenan coming in with off the cuff humor! 😂🤣😂😂
This was pure gold!! I miss my childhood! 😢 Wwf in the 80s were the best!
12 cases of rape, that ain't bad for the weekend...LMAO
RIP Bobby, RIP Gene
That was a jab at pentera who had just gotten out for busting up McDonald's
Kamala: I don't speak English but I'll tell you one thing, I got a great amateur background...look at that body.
That was by far the single best line.
I was making some fucky fucky
22 inch chest lmao
Too funny!!😂😂😂
@@mattmanw54301 funky*
Sgt Slaughter had me at " I'm coming after you like I never have before"
Mean Gene made so many promos great. Dude was a gem in front of the camera. I’m so glad to have spent my childhood Saturdays watching this guy.
Valentine's wife looks tougher than greg and Greg looked super tough.
SHE LOOK LIKE A REALLY YOUNG MISSY HYATT!!
She looked hot as hellllll a 10 out of 10
She would have to be, they dont call him "The Hammer" for nothing!
Thought that was Missy Hyatt. 80s blonde chic I guess
10 out of 10 as well. They were just built differently back then.
With how sacred keyfabe was back in the days I can't even imagine how pissed off vince would be if this was accidentally leaked.
Vince had admitted it was predetermined by then. There's a video from 85 of him doing just that.
@@jammiedodger Pretty sure kayfabe was still pretty sacred even during the 90s. Remember the curtain call incident of 1996 and how triple h was the one punished for it. He was already bound to win king of the ring instead it was given to austin.
Howd this get out?
@@jammiedodger 89, he did.
KINDA SHOCKING THAT THE ONLY ONES IN THE FINAL SEGMENT STILL ALIVE IS THE IRON SHEIK AND WENDY RICHTER
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@wezzbeet2923 how is it funny that the rest of the people died that isn't funny
He means with the amount of shit shieky babys done pol
The hammer is still alive
Very sad!
I could watch this kind of stuff all day. WWF was the shit back in the day.
Absolute gold. No script all quick wit.
When he spat on that turkey I almost died laughing
No you didnt
Idiot
@@damians901 who pissed in your brew
@@damians901 wow, you're so cool. Teach us all...
See if you can find Iron Sheik on the Howard Stern show. That will crack you up.
3:20 shows the pure impromptu genius of Bobby Heenan.
Greg Valentine came to Iraq on a USO tour in 2008. I met him when I picked them up from the flight line, Jimmy Hart was with the group. They were two of the nicest people you could ever meet. I was never a wrestling fan but I can't say enough good things about the two.
No disrespect to you,Jimmy or Greg but you're picking them up in IRAQ so Maybe they were being so polite to you because they were probably shitting themselves and their lives were in your hands..lol
I was there when they were on that tour. They visited us at COB Speicher. I was always a big fan of Jimmy Hart and being able to chat with him was a memory Ill never forget. Really nice guy.
Hearing Kamala say "fucky fucky" is just jaw-dropping hilarious.
Kamala saying that I was gone 😂😂😂
That's what I thought as well
When will the suits at the WWE Network realize that THIS is the kind of stuff we want to see!!?? With kayfabe long dead & buried, they are sitting on a gold mine of all those local promos, different takes of vignettes, etc. They own the libraries of multiple promotions, there's got to be miles of stuff like this...just saying.
They have released two separate tapes of "Funniest Moments", which includes some of this.
No clue where the other stuff came from.
How is kayfabe gone? Do you pay attention, at all?
@@sillygoose635 Uhh, shoot interviews everywhere, WWE basically admitting DURING their programming it's all a performance, the fact virtually no one who attends matches anymore is being legitimately "kayfabed" since 75 to 80% know at least the basic interworkings of the business VS. back in the 1980's when I'd say, including the kids, 60 to 70% DIDN'T know the inner workings of the business and probably believed some, if not all of what they were seeing being presented! How the hell ISN'T kayfabe dead?
@@whatspadethinks That doesn't mean it's not gone.
@Big Al The moron is back!
Since Kamala's recent passing, this video shows a side of him that I think a lot of people would have missed. He was genuinely hilarious outside of the ring.
Rest in piece, the Ugandan giant
@queensberry Q - OK, there's that. I was more looking at the perspective of wrestlers breaking character, but the content is questionable in this circumstance.
queensberry Q awwwww did that make u uncomfortable? People weren’t pussies back then, and could joke about anything without people being bitches and getting offended. U would have never survived
Who knew he'd die and get nominated to run for VP on the same day...
Who knew Kamala was such a kidder outside the ring 🤣🤣🤣
God Bless James Harris
May he Rest in Peace
@@r.cjones1515 "Kamala" Harris: The better Democratic vice presidential nominee than Kamala Harris.
This is one of the most hilarious and simultaneously heartwarming things ive ever seen
This was funny, especially with The Iron Sheikie doing the closing credits 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 we brought everyone on
Heenan: “He potatoed the turkey!” 0:55
Big John Studd:
“What did he do, Gene?”
Mean Gene:
“He nailed a turkey from the rear.”
😂😂🤣🤣😂😂💀
I actually love these outtakes. You can tell they're having a good time and just rolling along for the ride.
Damn.
That Kamala promo about having an amateur background, had me rolling.. Lmao
there was so much more personality in wrestling back then
Now its like they're trying way too hard and I've stopped giving a shit about wwe since 2006 lol
wrestling wasnt corperate and PC cultre wasnt a thing.
so having fun was allowed.
@@ArkonBlade go cry about muh peecee somewhere else
@@crotchman lol no. why dont you go look at your low Ratings and low attendance and cry.
Cause Pro Wrestlers wasn't forced to be something they weren't.. back then they were allowed to be themselves in their characters..
8:45 classic Vince McMahon laugh.
Man I use to love wrestling when I was a kid back in the 80s. This is just pure gold!!! Awesome post!
Miss Mean Gene. Absolute legend. Huge part of my 80s/90s childhood wrestling experiences along with Bobby the Brain and The Gorilla. Great times. Cherished memories.
This is when wwf/wwe promos were fun, not promos are robotic.
I love the pass the potatoes reference.
Gene's son was a NHL player who went to college at Minnesota and even after he left the AWA for WWF Gene would hold court in downtown Minneapolis pubs like Runyon's and Monte Carlo of Friday afternoons. He was a blast and there weren't many women half his age that didn't garner his attention. He was a hedonistic man of the 70s/80s for sure.
Mean Gene really had the most perfect voice. There will never be another like him.
The greatest announcer in the history of wrestling.
I love how the Sheik threw in verne Gagne's name in at the end. LMAO!
Gene gets in a Jim Barnett reference with Kamala, too.
These outtakes are gold. Mean Gene. Rest in peace. Such a comic.
I love seeing this behind the scenes shit where they’re all having fun and making the best out of an all day promo shoot!
This may be the greatest thing I've ever seen with the WWF.
5:23 - Slaughter's mangling of "Frejno" had Gene lose it, lol
Classic footage. Thanks for the upload. I saw the Sheik once signing autographs in a flea market in London, Ontario in the 2000s. People were lining up and so happy to see him.
kenneth i hope you can find more of these. this was truly heart warming as i grew up to all of these characters. its awesome to see the people behind these characters be themselves as well
Mean Gene is an absolute national treasure.
That kamala stuff cracked me up
He should've got the wwf title just for that.
The great Sugar Bear Harris ! That was very good
Kamala is from down in my back yard. The stories of him before wrestling is just as halurous.
@@riccotter4437 He was just about gone last year in Oxford. I hope Mr. James is doing better.
@@shaunclifton5281 yea i heard about that. I think they took his other leg or was that some time back? I also heard that wrestling thing out in Vegas gave him an award that supposed to had paid for his house that he was about to lose.
I hope thats true and not bs . He deserves something since well u know the story right ..
I am so glad these tapes are still around.
This was as touching as it was hilarious. Seeing their personalities like that.
When gene was trying not to laugh when sgt slaughter said he’s mother is laid in the soil it got me 😂😂😂😂
1:35 Gene puts that cigarette out. That's how they did it back then😁
It was weed
Micah Watkins haha I thought the same thing. Guess he quit by rumble 92?
Pretty sure it was weed. didnt have a filter on it.
@@ArkonBlade Thats how gene gets his composure during interviews with sporadic coke heads 😂
I appreciate you for uploading this. To see them outta character is hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
Rest well, Mean Gene. We miss ya brother.
This man could make ANYONE a huge star by simply chatten with em. Amazing.
Huge star? Talk about a massive exaggeration.
terminat1 that's Mean F'n Gene, grow a f'n brain! You MUST be a Millennial!all the wrestling you've seen has been garbage!
I wish I enjoyed my job as much as Mean Gene.
True, but think when the goofing around stops the thousands of promos Gene had to do over the years for every market, the same match-ups, holding the mic up to the same guys for 40 house shows you have to be enthusiastic about. Everyone I've heard on podcasts from the old days said that interview day was a looong day.
@@scribe570 working on tv or movie production is such a long process and long hours and jobless for some months between jobs take a toll on you!
Mean Gene couldn't keep it together while sergeant slaughter was talking. best moment ever
These things look like so much fun! I've done wrestling interviews and the outtakes are usually better than the interviews themselves! This was hilarious to watch and I bet was fun and funny as hell to be there!
That was funny to see. Never thought they had some much fun backstage. Even Kamala had a laugh
I think if you look like Kamala did with all that gimmick you better be able to laugh
I have this saved to my watchlist and any time i need a laugh, this does it every time. So many greats passed and no longer with us, but through RUclips Mean Gene is still here to entertain us!
Without question, one of the top ten best videos on RUclips.
This is incredible. How have I not seen this until now? Thank you. As if you didn’t love Mean Gene enough as it is.
PURE GOLD... Makes me sad though... that time will never be this way again.
When wrestlers could have a little freedom and creativity on their own, in and out the ring.
Sgt Slaughter dat improv skills lol
CultOfTheBull Thanks. Happens
Not only that, but seeing Gene nearly bust out laughing when Slaughter talked about his dead mother was hilarious. Dude had to hand off the mic and get out of the shot.
Thank you for sharing this video.
Hilarious and what Heenan said about Patera having 12 cases made me just lose it to finally have a LOL MOMENT!
This is better than Raw and Smackdown combined.
The buttered golden voice of my childhood!
from the bottom of my heart to who ever had anything with this video i would like to say THANK YOU ♥️
Bobby Heenan on Patera lol OMG legend! This was so awesome to watch, great job!!
"Hi Mom. Hi Dad."
The way I melted.
8:03 "Ayatollah Gene Okerlund" Yo, Sheik! You owe me a new keyboard!! Rofl!
The first time we've ever heard Kamala speak, and it was hilarious
He's done shot interview.
he was actually from Mississippi
Can’t get enough of rewatching old 80’s wrestling stuff….
Oh my God that was great!!! This is freakin gold!!! Thank you for posting this. This is my childhood. Man I do miss this time.