Hollywood Squares - Zingers

[zoetropez76]

Shadoe Stevens, you're no Rick Dees

[zomgpunkins1]

I put to punch that horsefaced Joan Rivers in her plastic, Godwin's Law spouting face. Why won't she just die already?

[robtay1963]

political correctness has ruined television today. In politics or in the service industry you need to respect everyone, but in comedy as long as it is done with tongue in cheek no one should take it seriously, I am a little over weight and have family who are obese, but was not offended. People today are to dam thin skinned, you can put on reruns of ALL in the family but you can't make current shows like that with out putting them on pay channels and charging fees. America has no sense of humor

[weatherboi]

Joan Rivers was always a classy lady!

[oldfart387]

Joan looked better every year after year.

Damn, I need to see my optometrist.

[edgewalker18]

Hollywood Squares = King of the one-liners

[emailtoscot]

You guys want to critique Joan Rivers on her looks? She is still one of the best comedians on earth!

Joan, you rock!

[spacecowboy5000]

@emailtoscot If only she was still doing comedy. :D

[funkeekatt]

The fact that John asked Joan "Do you want us to dub it in?" and that JM J. answered for her proves that the celebrities were given the questions/punchlines beforehand.

[nocalsteve]

@funkeekatt The original Hollywood Squares used to have a disclaimer at the opening that informed everyone that the stars were given the questions beforehand so they could work on their bluffs. I doubt the stars were given the answers though.

[MysticalCeta]

I never failed to be amazed as these peoples' minds were so obviously in the gutter for most of these, but they would handle them in such a way that the censors had nothing to complain about--much less cut! How I loved the comedy of those days!

[StFidjnr]

what are zingers anyway

[akiddlydivy2]

John Davidson is so dreamy!  It just isn't Hollywood Squares without Paul Lynde!

[Nansbbgrand]

Ahh, the good ol' days..back when Joan Rivers still had a face!

[lavenderliberal]

FU, Shriner.

[SuperBowlExpert]

Apparently, Joan Rivers' zinger for the "Pandora's Box" question was so funny that: 1) she couldn't bring herself to say it, and 2) Jm J. Bullock had to give a non-sexual answer to bail her out.

[MizerisMoney]

I can't remember what Shadow Stevens is famous for. Does anybody know?

[pika23]

@MizerisMoney he was an announcer for game shows and a radio dj

[recordman64]

@pika23 : He also had an acting career, starring in his own failed detective series, Max Monroe: Loose Cannon (a bad TV version of Lethal Weapon) and after that, co-starring with Harry Anderson in Dave's World.

[wontonnoodle23]

@MizerisMoney

He was their announcer and the show had trouble finding "stars" to fill 9 squares so they made him a permanent square. He is probably more famous today as the announcer for the Late Late show on CBS with Craig Fergurson.

[MizerisMoney]

@wontonnoodle23 all late shows suck now, especially Ferguson, and O'Brien

[bigkevcxza]

joan rivers cant even smile no more, cuz shes got so much plastic surgery, in a 100 years her body will be dust, but her face will remain in tact

[ryanlfc1986]

another 100 you mean?

[hussnfussel]

@bigkevcxza gee i never thought of that. want that be a sight to see if she is dug up?

[spongiebungie]

it's official the 80's were cruel to everyone.

[JANXDPDX]

1986. the year that GOT AWAY!

[punisherboy93]

You wouldn't even know that was Joan Rivers unless you knew before-hand!

[salty1954]

Joan Rivers is and was a skank.

[JonahPasion]

The bubble package!!!

[wmlfan9]

Even back then Joan Rivers was doing that same shtick that she does today - she pretends that what she's about to say is so funny that she can hardly talk and say what she's thinking. It's as if she's saying to the audience "What I'm about to say is so funny that I can't keep from laughing just thinking about it and so - when I finally do get it out - you will find it as funny as I do." Frankly, I've never cared for that bit she does.

[ErikBWalker]

Joan Rivers early '80's album (a taping of her live show), "What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most" involves arguably the funniest stand-up ever. With that said, she's not as funny today.

[SlipperySoapJail]

omg. Look how young and un-plastic surgified Joan Rivers is.

[Simon5005]

Even today's sitcoms aren't this funny anymore!

[7855waldo]

renew2today: Thanks for the clarification.

Herb sure was funny.

[7855waldo]

Is that the son of the laconic Will Shriner, who at one point in the 1950s had a nice little game show himself?

[renew2day]

Wil Shriner is the twin brother of Kin Shriner, a soap actor. They're the sons of Herb Shriner, a popular entertainer in the '50's.

[gooffbball]

This is my favorate version of Hollywood Squares.

[torchkit]

Shadoe Stevens...CAPTAIN MULLETT!!!!!

[ReverendSyn]

Nah, it's just long.

[Hoopermazing]

...more like, Major Douchebag!!!

[greenlee7smythe]

who was the guy in the glasses that said "the bubble packing"? or whatever. jim something. he looks very familiar. whats his full name?

[LtPowers99]

JM J. Bullock

[ReverendSyn]

Even other gay people call Jim "Faggot!"

[jameszerukjr]

Will Shriner? Wasn't he a celebrity at one time?

[cweasel25]

HAHAHA, joan rivers was a human once?! wow

[dchasse12]

Not only that, she also had a career at some point.

[jjboy90]

@cweasel25 no no joan rivers died in 1978  they ,made a clone of her nece her hidiouse and ugly face.

[vnisanian2001]

That blouse that Ilene Graff is seen wearing (at 2:21) is the same one that she wore on that 1987 episode of $100K Pyramid, where her partner, Marilyn Evans, got Bronson Pinchot mixed up with Pierce Brosnan. A clip of that can be seen right here on YT.

[klwewf]

I'm not sure what's worse. That she wore the same blouse, or the fact you KNOW she wore the same blouse.

[gameshowluvr86]

Wil Shriner. The poor man's Bob Saget.

[dancemonster]

And Bob Saget is the rich man's ALF. Whatcha gonna do?

[klwewf]

I thought Bob Saget was the poor man's Bob Saget.

[gameshowluvr86]

NICE!

[lilmissostentatious]

Wow, Joan Rivers is not funny.

[hwoods01]

I agree.