4.Crazy Guggenheim & Joe the Bartender

[bass0111]

One of the greatest voices of his era.

[jmaxcamp]

Frank had a set of pipes.

[9162vb48]

I like Jackie Gleasonm but this ws one of the most retarded sketches in the history of television.

Crazy Guggenheim, the illegitimate son of the black sheep in the famous Guggenheim family, Biff Guggenheim, was NOT funny.

And when he started to sing, well, I can still remember the color of the bark I threw up, way back when. ... Sort of a chiffon green.

Also, why didn't he ever sing any Italians songs? Or bark? After all, he was supposed to be drunk.

Signed,

Dad

[golfadict11]

thanks MOM and DAD.

[jbug45945]

Good Saturday evening memory here also. I wish someone would post the show where Crazy sang "Put On Your Easter Bonet." I remember that one cause it was Easter Sunday the next day. I always liked how this skit ended with Joe and Crazy shaking hands and Joe singing that song (was that a real song?) as the bar room doors closed and the audience applauded. It was my favorite skit of the show. We'll never see shows like this again. Very sad.

[caroljm36]

yeah Gleason did basically the same thing every week, and at first I didn't like it, then I started waiting for each part..like where Crazy spits in his face..LOL

[LexDSmith]

Loved Gleason and Fontaine!

[danotunes]

ditto EVERY COMMENT ON THIS PAGE !

[fjccommish]

I never missed an issue of American Scene Magazine.

[push2pull3]

brings a tear to my eye--great stuff--never to be seen again--so sad

[roybofmn]

Thanks for the posting. Like the rest, I spent my time in front of the TV mesmerized by his voice.

[shellyclaude]

One of my Best! childhood memories is Crazy and Joe.

[shellyclaude]

One of my Best! childhood memories is this.

[Daveyhunter1]

Thanks for posting , brings back memories

[kraftwerk144]

I totally agree I used to watch the Jackie Gleason Show Weekly

[remy709]

I have said it before and I'll say it again,my generation grew up with the best television. Thanks for posting! I feel so bad for future generations, they will never have pure entertainment like this, unless they find it here on-line. Again thanks!

[docbipe]

NEVER AGAIN WILL I WATCH TV IN THE SAME LIGHT!

[MrHandy1]

Frank Fontaine died of a heart attack at age 58. Much too early for a man of his talent to be taken from us. Great character and great talent. We miss this kind of heart and soul television.

[JadeTomZ]

Beautiful.

[gregdim]

what the heck is this...................no foul language,nudity or obsenity.....................a­nd still more entertaining than anything on t.v. today.

[junkey55]

@gregdim this my friend is true comedy

[jowen806]

Putting your finger in the beer helps stop the foam. I learned this from mixing Old Crow and Diet Coke.

[dragonfoe]

It's a shame a guy that could sing that well would have to play such a stooge to get on TV.

[TomBarrister]

@dragonfoe He played a stooge, as you put it, because he was good at it and could entertain people that way. A lot of people who watched the Gleason show did so in part (or wholly) because of the Joe the Bartender/Crazy Guggenheim skits.

Fontaine also had a long career in radio prior to and concurrent with his appearances on the Gleason show, and was long associated with Jack Benny on radio and TV.

[grapper6676]

Classic moments

[ScarletSinn]

Other than for comedic effect, why did Joe stick his finger in the beer? Anyone know? GREAT Memory Bobby54! Thank you for sharing

[fmg50]

The Golden Years of Television. Those were the days. Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, I Love Lucy, Gomer Pyle, Hogan´s Heroes - so many wonderful shows. We had four TV channels and always something to watch. Today you get 100+ channels and you keep clicking on the damned remote trying to find something worthwhile. Thanks for uploading. These shows are like a window to the past,

[bobbyr54]

I remember Jackie Gleason and Frank Fontaine very fondly. The whole family watched the show when I was a kid. Then in 1966 when I was about in 6th grade, we went to the Northern Wisconsin State Fair in Chippewa Falls, WI. My family was sitting in the old grandstands watching the show. Frank Fontaine came on stage. Some guy came through the audience and asked if I would like to be on stage with him. It was me and one other kid. I will never forget it. He used us as ventriloquist dummies.

[pizzabobneace]

best ever. two super-talented guys

[diddymuck]

The warmth of his voice...why did it have to go away?

[OrrCountry]

His voice became raspy from 50+ years of smoking 5...FIVE...packs a day. Jackie insisted on smoking AFTER his by-pass operation. Ah well, part of his larger-than-life personna...

[diddymuck]

FF could tear your heart out with his way of hitting the right note beautifully.

[km2711]

A generation of shows never to be repeated.

Thnaks for the posting

[music1831]

@km2711 Great clip of two wonderful comedians.

Pity that there aren't any decent American comedy shows on anymore.What has happened to the American

sense of humour,now.How can they churn out CRAP like "Two & Half Men',"Big Bang Theory",Mike & Molly'?

Total Shit.Look at some decent British Humour & enjoy.