I read his book about The Life and Times. Paul Lynde: Center Square. He had a funny line. Peter Marshall: Did you ever read the book Tarzan? Paul Lynde: I read that Tarzan was a real swinger.
What a great series it was... Proud to say she was a Piasano and it showed on the series! 😁 R.I.P. KAYE at a great age of 93... Now she's laughing with PAUL LYNDE 😁
"...The boy or girl of their dreams....as the case may be!" I think Paul was having a private joke there. LOL I never get tired of watching him in whatever he's starring or guest starring in.
That distinctive laughter and peculiar speech pattern, the body language and the arch looks--even in his heyday Paul Lynde was a national treasure. Much as I love Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard, this Desilu show didn't do much for either of them. It had the same writing team that gave us the immortal "I Love Lucy," but by '68 the jokes and set-ups were no longer fresh. But for Paul Lynde that didn't matter. He could have read a phone book and gotten laughs.
From the episode "The Match Game" [September 22, 1968]. Whenever Paul Lynde appeared as a guest star on a sitcom, you KNEW it was going to be a great episode (even the live audience knew, as soon as he made his entrance!).
@@davidallen5776 Fabulous episode! I think Beverly Washburn played his daughter, Gidget ended up in their car in her pajamas, and Paul’s recurring line throughout the episode was, “Take a lesson!” I think Sally Field also said it at the end, doing a Paul Lynde impression!
Yes, his "Bewitched" work (along of course with his legendary "Hollywood Squares" appearances) is likely Paul Lynde's legacy. (Well, that and his hilarious turns in films like "The Glass Bottom Boat," "Send Me No Flowers," and especially "Bye Bye Birdie.") And no, of course you're not alone! I'm constantly meeting kindred spirits like you here... and I share your astonishment at how quickly the time goes by (she said wistully). Good luck in the coming New Year!
You said it exactly. By 1968 the jokes and set-ups were no longer fresh. I get a strange feeling when watching this, and I felt it even in 1968 when this series aired. What was brilliantly funny in I Love Lucy was by then pretty "old hat". I also agree with your opinion of Paul Lynde. He could read the phone book and get laughs.
Oh, me too! As soon as I heard The Hooded Claw's manical laughter I knew it couldn't be anybody else. I probably watched "Penelope Pitstop" longer than I would have otherwise because of Lynde's voice work; the cartoon itself was pretty standard stuff. (By contrast Jay Ward's brilliant "George of the Jungle" had great voice, animation and inspired writing.) It was the same with Lynde's short-lived sitcom, "The Paul Lynde Show." He was always so much better than his material.
Alice Ghostley is the female version of Paul Lynde. Talks just like him and even appeared on Bewitched with him. Played the eccentric elderly friend on Designing Women, Bernice.
Alice Ghostley and Paul Lynde were introduced on Broadway and in movies in New Faces of 1954. The two of them together. In a way, it's a shame they got typecast according to those voices, though the voices made their careers and provided steady income. Lynde's sounded edgier and more sarcastic and Ghostley's long-suffering and resigned to it. Two of the more famous members of that 1954 (67 years ago!) crew are still with us: Robert Clary and Carol Lawrence. It's a shame Lynde and Ghostley are gone, but they'd both be in their 90's today. How time flies.
I watched The Mothers-in-Law sitcom when new. It was so funny. I was a child, but understood the storylines. Paul Lynde was a hoot. I watched him on Hollywood Squares alot, and his own sitcom.
Yeah, it's odd isn't it? You're a kid sitting there, and you know YOU could write funnier lines than this. In crayon. Then Paul Lynde comes in with his head waggling and maniacal laughter, and suddenly it works--because he's just that good. If all he had was that voice, that laugh, he was that good. But PL had so much more. And the sad thing is he wanted desperately to be a dramatic actor, felt he wasn't really respected as a comic. I wish there was some way he could know how much he's missed.
Seeing Lynde in this episode with Richard Deacon--another talented and very funny man, but with a completely different comedic style--reminds me of a fascinating interview Deacon gave some years ago to the writer Boze Hadleigh, where he talked at length about Paul Lynde's unique gifts as a performer (and his deficiencies as a friend). If you google Deacon's name you can find it somewhere on the web--or check out Hadleigh's 1996 book "Hollywood Gays." Very insightful. (Lynde is also interviewed.)
“The bloody tracks of tyrants walk across the pages of history in an unending scenario. Perversion of true law is the source of power which has allowed all tyrannical outlaws to loot, plunder and murder untold millions of helpless people.” - From the Preface to “The Law that Never Was: The Fraud of the 16th Amendment and Personal Income Tax, Vol. I” by Bill Benson and M.J. “Red” Beckman (1985)
Embarrassing how low quality this humor is. Paul Lynde was synonymous with camp, low brow humor. His humor, entertaining at times, was one dimensional and couldn't sustain a show. He would have been better cast on The Odd Couple.
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R.I.P. Paul Lynde.6/13/1926-1/10/1982.He will be remembered & not forgotten.
Kurt Kauffman exactly, before the internet I didn’t realise. I was so stupid in the late 80’s.
He was so underrated.
All that talent and the show was only on two years .
I read his book about The Life and Times. Paul Lynde: Center Square.
He had a funny line. Peter Marshall: Did you ever read the book Tarzan?
Paul Lynde: I read that Tarzan was a real swinger.
What a great series it was... Proud to say she was a Piasano and it showed on the series! 😁
R.I.P. KAYE at a great age of 93... Now she's laughing with PAUL LYNDE 😁
"...The boy or girl of their dreams....as the case may be!"
I think Paul was having a private joke there. LOL I never get tired of watching him in whatever he's starring or guest starring in.
Yes,picked up on that and was going to comment. It wasn't only me that noticed that.
First time I saw Paul was in Ecuador, South America he was fantastic, his face, mannerisms, he was unique. Great tv programs in the 70.
That distinctive laughter and peculiar speech pattern, the body language and the arch looks--even in his heyday Paul Lynde was a national treasure. Much as I love Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard, this Desilu show didn't do much for either of them. It had the same writing team that gave us the immortal "I Love Lucy," but by '68 the jokes and set-ups were no longer fresh. But for Paul Lynde that didn't matter. He could have read a phone book and gotten laughs.
From the episode "The Match Game" [September 22, 1968]. Whenever Paul Lynde appeared as a guest star on a sitcom, you KNEW it was going to be a great episode (even the live audience knew, as soon as he made his entrance!).
I can attest to that. I'd seen him in an episode of Gidget as a high-strung father trying to help his daughter buy a car!
@@davidallen5776 Fabulous episode! I think Beverly Washburn played his daughter, Gidget ended up in their car in her pajamas, and Paul’s recurring line throughout the episode was, “Take a lesson!” I think Sally Field also said it at the end, doing a Paul Lynde impression!
Yes, his "Bewitched" work (along of course with his legendary "Hollywood Squares" appearances) is likely Paul Lynde's legacy. (Well, that and his hilarious turns in films like "The Glass Bottom Boat," "Send Me No Flowers," and especially "Bye Bye Birdie.") And no, of course you're not alone! I'm constantly meeting kindred spirits like you here... and I share your astonishment at how quickly the time goes by (she said wistully).
Good luck in the coming New Year!
TheCatgirl6, don't forget he voiced Templeton the Rat in the original 1973 animated Charlotte's Web!
You said it exactly. By 1968 the jokes and set-ups were no longer fresh. I get a strange feeling when watching this, and I felt it even in 1968 when this series aired. What was brilliantly funny in I Love Lucy was by then pretty "old hat". I also agree with your opinion of Paul Lynde. He could read the phone book and get laughs.
This help xplains y ILove Lucy no longer works on a daily basis
Oh, me too! As soon as I heard The Hooded Claw's manical laughter I knew it couldn't be anybody else. I probably watched "Penelope Pitstop" longer than I would have otherwise because of Lynde's voice work; the cartoon itself was pretty standard stuff. (By contrast Jay Ward's brilliant "George of the Jungle" had great voice, animation and inspired writing.) It was the same with Lynde's short-lived sitcom, "The Paul Lynde Show." He was always so much better than his material.
While it may sound morbid, but Paul Lynde RIP could have the entire crowd rolling on the floor- giving a eulogy
Jerry was so cute.
Woo I like very Paul Lynne he's was a great awesome actor
Alice Ghostley is the female version of Paul Lynde. Talks just like him and even appeared on Bewitched with him. Played the eccentric elderly friend on Designing Women, Bernice.
You are absolutely right! I never made that connection. Good one!! I loved both of them on Bewitched.
Alice Ghostley and Paul Lynde were introduced on Broadway and in movies in New Faces of 1954. The two of them together. In a way, it's a shame they got typecast according to those voices, though the voices made their careers and provided steady income. Lynde's sounded edgier and more sarcastic and Ghostley's long-suffering and resigned to it. Two of the more famous members of that 1954 (67 years ago!) crew are still with us: Robert Clary and Carol Lawrence. It's a shame Lynde and Ghostley are gone, but they'd both be in their 90's today. How time flies.
This was a great show, we missed it when it went off the air suddenly.
It was hysterical. Actually the show was a little ahead of its time.
I used to enjoy watching him on t.v. he was great.
Time for a PAUL LYNDE movie 😎👍
Definitely!
I watched The Mothers-in-Law sitcom when new. It was so funny. I was a child, but understood the storylines. Paul Lynde was a hoot. I watched him on Hollywood Squares alot, and his own sitcom.
For anyones info the Italian lady is Eve Arden known best for playing the title role in the TV and radio shows our miss brooks
A leak at the U.N. 😂👏
I loved Paul Lynde and RIP Paul !
Yeah, it's odd isn't it? You're a kid sitting there, and you know YOU could write funnier lines than this. In crayon. Then Paul Lynde comes in with his head waggling and maniacal laughter, and suddenly it works--because he's just that good. If all he had was that voice, that laugh, he was that good. But PL had so much more. And the sad thing is he wanted desperately to be a dramatic actor, felt he wasn't really respected as a comic. I wish there was some way he could know how much he's missed.
I knew a woman who served on a Board with him and she said he was a 200 percent hissy asshole.
Paul, Kaye, Herbert Rudley, Richard Deacon, and, of course, Paul. What a crew.
I could just hear Morey Amsterdam saying to Richard Deacon, "You make a perfect Englishman. Your London Bridge is falling down".
Computer Dating Services 😲 Paul Lynde was way ahead of his time!!!
Brilliant actor,ashame no one like him today
Seeing Lynde in this episode with Richard Deacon--another talented and very funny man, but with a completely different comedic style--reminds me of a fascinating interview Deacon gave some years ago to the writer Boze Hadleigh, where he talked at length about Paul Lynde's unique gifts as a performer (and his deficiencies as a friend). If you google Deacon's name you can find it somewhere on the web--or check out Hadleigh's 1996 book "Hollywood Gays." Very insightful. (Lynde is also interviewed.)
My uncle dated Deacon.
Yes I deed Me Paul Lynde was very very talented & etc
Yes indeed that is
Uncle Arthur, Always.
He worth revisits.
It looks like Robert Reed is the secretary, he must have gotten along great with Paul!
That's Richard Deacon, not Roger Carmel.
15.00 for a dating service? u cant even go to dinner for that today.
Barely even McDonald's for that much, lol.
My favourite
Love ❤️
DID HE SAY COMPUTER DATING SERVICE? WHAT YEAR WAS THIS? I USED TO WATCH THE MOTHER IN LAWS ALL THE TIME
Believe it or not, yes computer dating in the late '60s was all the rage. And computer programming schools were springing up everywhere by then too.
Very perceptive comments, you and Catgirl. Thanks!
Paul Lynde and Kaye Ballard!
He should have been a regular on that show.
John Cryer dies an amazing PAUL LYNDE IMPRESSION 😁👍🏻
This show may have been Desi's last gasp.
Paul Lynde was only good in short segments. More is not always better with Lynde.
“The bloody tracks of tyrants walk across the pages of history in an unending scenario. Perversion of true law is the source of power which has allowed all tyrannical outlaws to loot, plunder and murder untold millions of helpless people.” - From the Preface to “The Law that Never Was: The Fraud of the 16th Amendment and Personal Income Tax, Vol. I” by Bill Benson and M.J. “Red” Beckman (1985)
Wow. I loved this show as a kid, but now all I can notice is how poorly written it is - such a waste of great talent.
Embarrassing how low quality this humor is. Paul Lynde was synonymous with camp, low brow humor. His humor, entertaining at times, was one dimensional and couldn't sustain a show. He would have been better cast on The Odd Couple.