Hamateur Night

[Chapstick686]

It took me more tan 6 months to find this video.... i just couldn´t stop thinking about that laughter since my childhood.

[Pikmin2468]

This is funny in so many ways you never see anymore.

And it has a higher body count than any cartoon I've seen lately.

[terencewoelke]

THANK GOD FOR YOUTUBE!!!!

[Major2219]

Thank you so much for this video post Arczaer!!!!

[lolmetaknight]

2 peoples are the guy with the crushed shoe and the other one with the hat

[BaybeeBubblez03]

Lol love the tags xD

[FurryWereWolf93]

4:49 Speak...

*dog actually talks*

That's why i love the furry fandom.... :D

And lol so much pwnage

[FeartheHamburgler]

Wow, i cant believe i actually found this! good memories watching this...

[Green12a]

OMG i was looking for this during like 10 years!!! thanku!! :3

[4a8p9x]

I've never seen this one in its entirety before. Only the various butchered for TV versions. Thank you for making it available.

[VozDRazon]

In the end, none of the audience appreciated real talent, that's why they were all eggheads.

LOL!!!!

[zatchfan202]

A HA HA HA HA it's a killer A HA HA HA HA oh that sure gets me A HA HA HA HA oh this is killing me A HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!

[themysteriouscrumpet]

@zatchfan202 Ironic considering the rooster apparently shot him, and then his stage bride.

[SxDx1986]

lol i dont know what the hell the jack russel terrier talked about but it owned this whole cartoon.

[gsnman]

EGGHEAD!

[kag427]

When I was a kid and I saw Juliet laugh like the hippo, I thought it meant that it was her laughing the whole time. Now in retrospect, I can't overlook the fact that it actually shows the hippo laughing and slapping people.

[WSenator1]

"Old as dust"? There were cartoons (including WBs) a lot older than this one!

[penguinrobotme]

3:57 xD  4:00 what the hell say the flea?

[OniLordMiki]

@penguinrobotme It was reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb.

[ooozetoons]

Yay! They had fart sounds back then!

[DMan4759]

This IS the funniest animated short ever made. The HIPPO is tge shiznit

[YugiQueen722]

OMG! Thx for posting this cartoon. I grew up on this. It always made me laugh whenever I needed it. ^___^

[danisaki19]

Glad to find this cartoon, important part of my childhood treasure; I enjoyed it a lot of times. Thanx 4 posting. :D

[SynertiaNB]

I have been looking for this for so long!! It gives me so much f?&king chills man !! THANK YOU! cant describe how much that makes me feel,

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

This cartoon was featured on the "Porky Pig" VHS tape released under Star Classics which I got at Goodwill over the weekend, but it does contain the original 16mm print of the cartoon, along with the AAP logo and it's missing the WB logo in the jump cut. That was kinda strange to put the original 16mm print and transfer to VHS with just a green leader film reel with writing garbled on the screen. That was weird.

[kyle1081]

They still showed these on cartoon network and boomerang until recently, i hate not seeing it any more.

[SuperAdventures]

I too came looking for this short just to see/hear that damn laughing hippo. LOL!

And yes, the hippo was voiced by Tex Avery. The hippo also appeared in another short or two which I'm looking for.

[meggles392]

6:16 - chicken boob grab.

[Tonykomnenos]

Hilarious, I remember watching this as a kid. I always thought it was the hippo throwing tomatoes at everyone. Also, at the part where Juliet laughs deeply, I used to think she had eaten the hippo and that was why she was laughing like him. Who is that funny little clown guy? He dresses like the early Elmer Fudd.

[anna2k2]

hope the guy who got flattened feet got a refund lol.

[WWEChampion16]

Thos 2 chickens were in the "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" cartoon.

[anna2k2]

i think the talking dog was a descendant of howard dean but i'm not sure lol!

[CalebTheDestroyer]

I GIVE UP! I GIVE UP!

Oh lookit my feet they're all crooked an' everything! LMFAO

[misschatterteeth]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[officerperez]

I can't believe I found this! I would tell people about the gag where Juliet laughs like the hippo for years and still laugh every time I told it and now, even after all of these years, I still lose it when she laughs.

[mrbirdboys]

that hippo was probaply laughing at his fingers or something not the play

[crocetti1984]

I have been trying to find a cartoon I havent seen since I was 8.....I can't remember everything that went on but there was an old blind man asking a poor baker for a slice of bread. So when the baker gave him some the blind man sheds his disguise and somehow makes the bakery successful overnight....anyone??

[kag427]

@crocetti1984 I think you're talking about Busy Bakers. It's on Youtube.

[crocetti1984]

@kag427 Yes! That was it exactly! Thanks!

[RRaquello]

The dog MC is a spoof of old time vaudeville performer Frank Fay. He developed the act of the sarcastic MC and became a big star. You can see him doing it on film in the movies "Show of Shows" and "Nothing Sacred". He was also the original in the famous B'way show "Harvey", which was made into a movie w. Jimmy Stewart.

[ksharmaine]

What is that tune that was played after the swami stabbed the basket? I noticed this tune was played in cartoon death scenes.

[mamojica]

@ksharmaine That's Chopin's Funeral March, which is from his Piano Sonata No 2 in B-flat Minor, Op 35, third movement. Do a search - there are dozens of examples on Youtube.

[kanyeshallwin555]

OMG!!!!!!! I GREW UP WITH THIS CARTOON!!!! Im so happy I found this on youtube cuz the video cassete I used to have it on doesn't work anymore!! (Thank God for public domain lol)

[ZippyRagu]

That dog introducing everything is hilarious!

"The balcony scene from Romeo and Julieh.....T!" *tomatoed*

[MWolfL]

Even the guy who introduced the acts is funny. He first has this blank 'whatever' look on, even when he got hit by the tomato, but then was suddenly shocked when the audience cheered for Egghead!

[TreSowers]

I used to watch this all the time when I was young! This same cartoon!!

I didn't realize it was so violent. :O

<3

[MichaelJacksonFan87]

Look at my feet! They're all crooked and everything!!!

[alphafactor]

Romeo had the right idea. ^_^

[unsightlyboot]

this is SO COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS. but still awesome (also, i always wanted to punch that hippo)

[CaSCHWANK]

tobeornottobe!!

[fromthesidelines]

..and Sara Berner gets to do her "Katharine Hepburn" impression as "Juliet".

[fromthesidelines]

Phil Kramer is the voice of "The Emcee", and (of course) Mel Blanc is just about everyone else...

[LFD254]

This is one funny-ass cartoon!

[ccricers]

I bet that hippo likes the Irate Gamer.

[Hotshotter3000]

OK, the end gag was the only thing that was totally unexpected!

[Blogrich55]

Pure genius! Tex Avery was the master!

[TotallyLisaCartoons]

My favourtie act was Romeo and Juliet because the Hippo kept laughing to annoy them

[lexbates]

Tex Avery does the hippo's laugh.He did the same laugh when voicing Father Bear in "A Bear's Tale"(1940),and he later used the laugh for the bulldog in "Bad Luck Blackie" at MGM in 1949.

[MWolfL]

And then when Juliet did the same laugh...what a crack up! XD

[miacat10]

the talking dog has me rolling on the floor everytime XD

[BoyToonWonder]

I cannot decide which was the funniest segment. (Right now, I'm laughing at the Shakespearian fox.) XD

Just another brilliant cartoon from Tex Avery.

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

OH MY GOD!!! I CANNOT believe I found this!!!

That hippo always have me laughing for days!! LMAO!!!

[jb1532]

ahhh i've been looking all over for this...just for the hippo!!!! lol

[LFD254]

@bubblinbrownsugar616 The hippo's voice is none other than Tex Avery

[acla9000]

One of the funniest gags in my opinion was the melting moon during Romeo and Juliet chickens' love kiss. Hilarious!

[Kanna172003]

That judge would fit right in with the American Idol judges.

[GundamBlueDestiny]

I think my favorite is swami River looking into the basket after he stabbed it repeatedly with his sword and then shook his head before calling the Usher..

"Give this gentleman his money back."

GOLD!

[1947Desoto]

I find the act at 1:45 hysterical! It's one of the few times I've seen a nickelodeon in a period cartoon/movie. I wonder if any piano roll companies ever sold rolls with "The Merry Go Round Broke Down".

[August17Man]

Laughing hippo is so funny!!! I always remember his laugh :D

[nibargerswife51482]

The guy @ 3:00 - 3:46 looks like Ahmed the dead terrorist.

[31operafan]

@nibargerswife51482 xD Oh, gosh, I know! xD "Silence! I KEEL YOU!!"

[yssuts]

I think Tex Avery actually was the voice of the hippo.

[LFirstbasema]

Too many Eggheads at the end!

[ACcountryFan]

well, that's the joke of the cartoon...it explains why Egghead was making those appearances...but you gave away the ending.

[lhkjk]

3:34 :o(

[redips]

5:40 That's not fair, they didn't let the wolf finish.

[ACcountryFan]

that was a satirical segment...the reason why the wolf didn't finish in my opinion was because it was an attack on those who recite Shakespeare...he never even got through the first lines. then to keep with the tomato joke, the host gets one in the face, too. hahahaha

Tex Avery...master of the unexpected and the silly...and yes, he did voice the hippo. there's another cartoon, "The Bears Tale", which features Tex giving that same voice to the Papa Bear.

[Tonykomnenos]

@redips That's a fox.

[Deanmo23]

@redips It's a fox, not a wolf.

[theinsolents]

hahahaha, that stupid flea...

[AnimationAmongUs]

wait!! DID THAT GOD CAME FROM SCOTLAND???

[CurlyHayami]

I still have this on VHS-one of the first toons I saw in my life!

[CharlesXavier]

(5:14-5:18) The moment where the hippo knocks those guys through the wall is a killer! LOL!

[MWolfL]

"Of course you realize..." you used the hippo's main line. Ha! Thought I was gonna end with "...this means war!" didn't ya?

[BettyBoop4ever25]

boy,Egghead shure can croon

[evan22303]

I love that Hippo.

[McCorvey]

Usher, give this gentleman his money back. LOL!!

[lapatega]

very funny!!!!!

[ladyvolsfans]

The song you are asking about is ~~~> "She'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes".

[gagbonkers2]

Can u upload Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas? Thats a Tex avery cartoon

[LFD254]

Part of the beauty of this great cartoon is the music. Jack Warner had the entire Warner Symphony orchestra provide all the music for the cartoons because they usually sat around between movies getting paid anyway so he put them to work !

[izlude2]

I FOUND IT!!! OMG OMG!!! LOL!!!

The hippo's laugh is classic! Cartoons are not like this anymore, it's pure randomness. I miss it... These are real cartoons!

[quizmaster85]

Especially the last time you hear his laugh - not from who you expected!

[MWolfL]

@izlude2 Trivia: that's Tex Avery doing the voice! :D You can tell because he uses that laugh with most of his characters, it was his trademark.

[looneywoman]

@izlude2 I know! Most cartoons today scare me!

[ThaAbyss77]

@izlude2 I've been looking for this for years haha.

[dcbandnerd]

@izlude2 If memory serves me correctly, that laugh belongs to none other than the cartoon's director: Fred "Tex" Avery.

[WSenator1]

@izlude2 - The laugh belongs to Tex Avery himself!

[FilmTraum]

I love this cartoon!

[gagbonkers]

tex avery did the voice of the laughing hippo. BTW what is the song around 7:52??

[MrLogoman007]

It's the Gong Show! Only this time, it's without Jamie Farr and Jaye P. Morgan!

[superfanofgaby]

lol its being a long time i wavent seen this wow

[JohnSilverfan01]

Geez! It's been forever since I've last seen this one and I remember all my favorite parts, the guy with the crooked feet, the tomatoes, the laughing hippo, and ol' Egghead coming in and out all the time.

[capara10]

this cartoon is so hilarious.

[fromthesidelines]

Stalling did NOT compose "Merrily We Roll Along". That was introduced by Eddie Cantor on radio in 1935; he got credit for composing it with the two "legitimate" composers who did. He arranged the song...he didn't write "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", either.

[WSenator1]

@fromthesidelines - But he DID decide that these two songs would introduce the WBs. Thanks, Carl!

[jacydc]

haha my brother used to do that hippo laugh all the time.

and the to be or not to be part, with the tomato. classic.

[dnm728]

In this cartoon, Tex Avery used his real name - Fred - due to Warners' insistence that the cartoon staffers use their real names. Avery has "Supervision" credit rather than "Direction" because producer Leon Schlesinger thought "Supervision" more accurate for an animated film.

[madapo87]

the part in the orchestra was hilarious....i cant stop laughing when i see it...lol

[ClassicTVFan82]

The flea is explaining "Mary Had a Little Lamb" though it's tough to make out what he's saying.

[dorourke105]

@ClassicTVFan82 She

[Infiniteh]

what's the tune played by the pianola called?

[chaynestuddert]

Merry-Go-Round Broke Down. I can't remember who wrote it.

[ClassicTVFan82]

Carl Stalling, who also wrote the Merrily We Roll Along theme heard at the open and close.