@@williamjackson5942 Lighten up. I know it would not really get him incarcerated, He would however probably be roasted by some snowflake with no sense of humor....kind of like one that calls baloney to an obviously overblown statement.
After the "Honeymooners" skit, we always loved it when Jackie introduced the cast so exuberantly, and they'd come out one by one: JANE KEENE! (loud applause) ... SHEILA MacRAE! (louder applause) ... ART CARNEY! (loudest applause).
Brings back so many memories. We all used to imitate Frank (Crazy Guggenhiem) Fontaine the next school day. I remember his songs and still have his album to this day. Thanks for the wonderful memories.
I had always wanted to meet Mr. Fontaine as I had heard him when I was a child acting as Crazy Guggenheim. I was unaware that he had such a great voice and acted in movies. I was fortunate to know his manager and was invited to the daughter's wedding. Mr. Frank Fountaine sang "Daddy's Little Girl." While at the wedding I met his son who wa in the military at the time. Many told me that Frankie Junior was a better singer than his dad. What a great personality Mr. Fontaine had.
One of Frank Fontaine's best movie roles is as Hjalmar Johannsson in the 1951 20thCentury-Fox film "The Model and the Marriage Broker." EXCELLENT ensemble movie, with great players both in the leads (Thelma Ritter, Jeanne Crain, Scott Brady, and Michael O'Shea) and in the many character parts (including, but not limited to, Frank Fontaine, Jay C. Flippen, John Alexander, Zero Mostel, Dennie Moore, Nancy Kulp, Helen Ford, Maudie Prickett, Kathryn Card, Blythe Daley, Allison Daniell, Dennis Ross - and, as one of the three Miss Perrys, Edna May Wonacott, 9 years after her outstanding performance as Ann Newton in Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt"). Written by Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, and Richard L. Breen, and directed by George Cukor.
I was 11 years old when this first aired. I found all the bartender skits with "Crazy Guggenheim" not only hilarious, but cozy as well. Frank Fontaine had a mellow baritone. I remember running home from sandlot baseball or other games with my friends to watch The Jackie Gleason Show. I sure do miss TV programs like this!
I was 14 and watching Jackie Gleason was one of the highlights of the week. This was a time before shock humor, when delivery of jokes was based on surprise, irony, and innocence. A poet in every storm? One had to be knowledgeable to understand the humor sometimes. That is what we lose when we ban books - knowledge. I love this clip; thank you!
My dad LOVED Jackie Gleason. We watched this show every week. Joe's Bar was my favorite segment. Variety shows were common in the 1960s but The Jackie Gleason Show was different.
I remember that my father loved Frank Fontaine, he bought his album (33rpm). What a voice he had. May they both rest in peace, & thanks for the great entertainment, something that is missing today.
I was a little kid when this show was on. Joe the bartender was my favorite part. Remember when he poured the beer, and stuck his finger in it to keep it from overflowing? 😂
I too was a little kid when this show aired. My father was a big fan of Jackie, and we watched this show regularly. We have home tape recordings of the show and of me as a 6 year old doing my Crazy impressions. Man, what a time.
My grandfather was a bartender in Queens, NY, for a long time, and Joe reminds me so much of him. They share a lot of the same mannerisms. I remember watching the Jackie Gleason Show as a kid and this was always a highlight.
Performing an entire sketch live without having to stare at cue cards the whole time, and actually looking at the person you're talking too. Unlike SNL where they stare at a cue card waiting to read off their next line.
From Cambridge, Ma; live in Medford (?) and Winchester .. I met one of his son's (a Bartender) in San Diego, around 1998 .. Told me a lot of interesting stories about his dad & Jackie Gleason ..
Frank Fontaine was also on Jack Benny's radio show, playing the same character, but named John L.C. Sivoney. And he was the inspiration for the WB cartoon character, Pete Puma.
wow..what a flood of memories of better days..real comedy that was not dirty...we too, family, gathered around our 19" b/w and watched with smiles and laughter..thx for content..
Frank Fontaine first did this on the Jack Benny radio program as John Spomoni who was broke and asked Jack for a dime for coffee , Jack gave him 50 cents. John bought a lottery ticket and won. Jack demanded the prize was his throughout the episode.
The networks were full of these great shows in the 50’s.Jack Benny,George Burns,Red Skeleton,Lucille Ball,and others.Those were the best years for true,wholesome entertainment.
These two had fans of all kinds. When Bob Uecker and Tim McCarver were together on the St. Louis Cardinals, they used to improvise their own Joe and Crazy routines for the guys in the locker room. I'd guess their material was a tad more adult oriented than Frank and Jackie's though.
I lived in the Bronx across the street from the old Yankee Stadium in 1966 I remember as a little kid watching on our old broken tv we needed pliers to change the channels , Does anybody remember back then we had trucks that had kiddy amusement rides that would ride around the streets for a few cents you could get on and enjoy a ride , good old days
Back in “the day” life was so much more uncomplicated. Never in a trillion years could this old Catholic believe our world would be so CONFUSING So grateful I was born instead of now. .
These were the days. Simple times. He had such a great voice. Always looked forward to this show on a black n white tv with bug ears. God bless the time we grew up in.
i remember watching this show as a kid and being SHOCKED the first time i heard frankie fontaine's voice. smooth as butter. he fooled a lot of people with that routine. great show.
my father loved jackie gleason, and more than likely frank fontaine, i'd never seen this or them but it holds up well, really campy but a great routine, love how jackie keeps getting irritated then repeatedly drawn back into the story.
Im sure we all remember the TV show the Honeymooners Those were the days of clean comedy back in the 50s and 60s I loved Joe the 🍺 bartender and special guest Frank Fontaine as Crazy Guggenheim what a beautiful singing voice and comedy sketches by both Frank Fontaine and Jackie Gleason another great person was Red Skeleton
I used to LOVE Jackie Gleason, & Crazy Guggenheim was ALWAYS funny! Jackie’s expressions are HILARIOUS! 👏🏽😃 *oh, how many were shocked when Crazy started singing? *
I was single digit age when The Jackie Gleason Show was in production , and I remember watching it with my parents . We always looked forward to his " Joe The Bartender " segment ! I remembered the show so fondly , that from memory , I figured out a recurrent musical theme from the show , a beautiful piece entitled " Tenderly " in chord / melody style on my guitar . We'll never have entertainment like this again !
I, too, remember watching "The Jackie Gleason Show" as a young lad (I'll turn 66 later this summer!), when it was a one-hour variety show on Saturday evenings on CBS. If I remember rightly, the "Joe the Bartender/Crazy Guggenheim" sketch aired in the last quarter-hour of the show. I, too, remember the outstanding musical numbers, and the Reginald Van Gleason and "The Poor Soul" sketches, as well. Sadly, the sketch aired here was from the last season of the hour-long variety show based in New York. From fall of 1966 until the show's cancellation in 1970, Jackie Gleason elected to relocate to "the sun and fun of Miami Beach," with tired, bloated, hourlong musical versions of "The Honeymooners" airing each week, in the company of Art Carney, Sheila MacRae, Jane Kean, Sammy Spear and his orchestra, the June Taylor Dancers, and announcer Johnny Olsen. The production values may have been good, but the shows themselves were not in those last 4 seasons.
My family gathered in front of the tv to watch Jackie Gleason. This bit was always a highlight.
It was my dad's favorite too.
Jackie Gleason was a terrific Entertainer,and made Miami Beach 🏖️⛱️ wonderful to vacation in during the glory days from 1960 through 1985 !!!!!
Play it again, Sam.
Same here!!! Good ole days!!
I was 9 years old!
We didn't know how good we had it, on TV in those days.
I watched these shows as a child and teenager. Hard to beat this type of humor.
Same for me Man! 😎👍🏽
Jackie was such a great straight man, his facial expressions spoke volumes
..he was still Ralph Kramden to Frsnk's Ed Norton...
Frank Fontaine had a beautiful singing voice. What a great talent.
Just like Jim Nabors ''Gomer Pyle''
Yes, im 70 an remember watching this show an he truly could sing. Also, loved the red skeleton show.
I had forgotten just how funny Frank Fontaine was!
And I had forgotten how stupid his character was. But I guess that was the point…
Entertainment like this will never be seen again ever, television back then was not only clean and terrific but fantastic as well!!!!!
You are so right
AMEN!
Nope. "Somebody" would complain.
@@johnholliday5874 Of course they would. They'd pounce all over us for disrespecting mentally challenged people.
We no longer have the quality of people to pull off this kind of entertainment.
As a child in the 60’s seems like this came on around 7:00 . This was my favorite part of the Jackie Gleason Show.
Don't forget the June Taylor Dancers. Remember when they did the kaleidescope dance, lying flat on the stage floor, with their arms and legs?
Looking back when life was simple
I was 8 years old when this was broadcast. My Old Man loved this show. Of course, now I love The Honeymooners.
Me too!!!!
@@hawkman9333 Me 3!!!
Me 4!
Me 5!
Me 6!!!!
I am soon to be 70, and I must say that I really miss those days, when entertainers were actually talented.
..soon to be 75..these shows that I watched with mom and dad are a few of my greatest memories...
AND THE JUNE TAYLOR DANCERS!! Their routines were always fantastic with the overhead view. 😊
I so here you!
Boy oh boy, how I do miss this kind of entrainment.
Grew up watching Jackie Gleason and the June Taylor dancers Crazy Guggenhiem ,The Honeymooners brings me back to a simpler time in life
Remember the kaleidescope dance by the JT Dancers?
I was a little kid watching these. No matter how touching Fontaine's songs were, I would always choke up at the end, when Gleason sang 'My Gal Sal'.
This brings back SO may memories. Actually think of these two over the years. What a skit! And then the song. Tears in the eyes.
Crazy Guggenheim -An act you’d never be allowed to do today!
"He was married, to a woman". That would get him put in the penitentiary today.
@@hawkman9333 Baloney!
@@williamjackson5942 Lighten up. I know it would not really get him incarcerated, He would however probably be roasted by some snowflake with no sense of humor....kind of like one that calls baloney to an obviously overblown statement.
Are you kidding? You get this sort of thing at every Trump rally when the devotees are interviewed.
But then there was foster brooks and Shelley berman
Watched this as a kid Awesome !! Thanks for posting.
It's was So Cool To See F.F. Break into a Song After the Jokes. May They R.I.P.
By this time, Gleason had moved his show down to Miami Beach. And he was Mr. Saturday Night for many people. The great Frank Fontaine doing Crazy. 👏 🎉
After the "Honeymooners" skit, we always loved it when Jackie introduced the cast so exuberantly, and they'd come out one by one:
JANE KEENE! (loud applause) ...
SHEILA MacRAE! (louder applause) ...
ART CARNEY! (loudest applause).
the look on jackie gleasons face is priceless!!!!
Brings back so many memories. We all used to imitate Frank (Crazy Guggenhiem) Fontaine the next school day. I remember his songs and still have his album to this day. Thanks for the wonderful memories.
Saturday night prime time with the folks. Then Gunsmoke.
Sunday night: The Wonderful World of Disney, and then ...
"The F.B.I.!"
@@57highland .....
Voyage Beneath The Sea....
@@garyaugustus690 "Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea" ...
@@57highland ...Absolutely.....thanks.
And then either Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, Lawrence Welk, or Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.
I had always wanted to meet Mr. Fontaine as I had heard him when I was a child acting as Crazy Guggenheim. I was unaware that he had such a great voice and acted in movies. I was fortunate to know his manager and was invited to the daughter's wedding. Mr. Frank Fountaine sang "Daddy's Little Girl." While at the wedding I met his son who wa in the military at the time. Many told me that Frankie Junior was a better singer than his dad. What a great personality Mr. Fontaine had.
One of Frank Fontaine's best movie roles is as Hjalmar Johannsson in the 1951 20thCentury-Fox film "The Model and the Marriage Broker." EXCELLENT ensemble movie, with great players both in the leads (Thelma Ritter, Jeanne Crain, Scott Brady, and Michael O'Shea) and in the many character parts (including, but not limited to, Frank Fontaine, Jay C. Flippen, John Alexander, Zero Mostel, Dennie Moore, Nancy Kulp, Helen Ford, Maudie Prickett, Kathryn Card, Blythe Daley, Allison Daniell, Dennis Ross - and, as one of the three Miss Perrys, Edna May Wonacott, 9 years after her outstanding performance as Ann Newton in Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt"). Written by Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, and Richard L. Breen, and directed by George Cukor.
I was 11 years old when this first aired. I found all the bartender skits with "Crazy Guggenheim" not only hilarious, but cozy as well. Frank Fontaine had a mellow baritone. I remember running home from sandlot baseball or other games with my friends to watch The Jackie Gleason Show. I sure do miss TV programs like this!
I was 14 and watching Jackie Gleason was one of the highlights of the week. This was a time before shock humor, when delivery of jokes was based on surprise, irony, and innocence. A poet in every storm? One had to be knowledgeable to understand the humor sometimes. That is what we lose when we ban books - knowledge. I love this clip; thank you!
'' And awaaayyyyy we go !!! ''
@earthlingjohn "How sweet it IS!"
My dad LOVED Jackie Gleason. We watched this show every week. Joe's Bar was my favorite segment. Variety shows were common in the 1960s but The Jackie Gleason Show was different.
Man, I can see my grandmother, mother and I watching this and loving this segment each week. Those were the days.
I remember that my father loved Frank Fontaine, he bought his album (33rpm). What a voice he had. May they both rest in peace, & thanks for the great entertainment, something that is missing today.
I was a little kid when this show was on. Joe the bartender was my favorite part. Remember when he poured the beer, and stuck his finger in it to keep it from overflowing? 😂
My favorite part was when Jackie played the part of "The Poor Soul".
I too was a little kid when this show aired. My father was a big fan of Jackie, and we watched this show regularly. We have home tape recordings of the show and of me as a 6 year old doing my Crazy impressions. Man, what a time.
"A hot finger stops it every time!"
Classic comedy. Never to be seen or heard again.
Like none other will ever be again that's Jackie Gleason and Frank Fontaine. God rest them well indeed, in Jesus mighty name Amen.
I used to watch that show as kid, I would be on the floor laughing.
Just Love these old shows! Sure brings back memory's...Thank God for CZcams!!!!
I loved seeing this as a kid.
I used to watch that show. Loved Frank Fontaine.
The Great One and the other GreatMr.Fontaine thank you
My grandfather was a bartender in Queens, NY, for a long time, and Joe reminds me so much of him. They share a lot of the same mannerisms. I remember watching the Jackie Gleason Show as a kid and this was always a highlight.
Frank had that character down cold. Would have been a good spin-off series.
Black and white tv, and the shows were so much fun! Born in the 50s , those were the best days! So blessed to experience!
Loved this show as a kid, especially old Craze
8 years old in 1966. Who else remembers Pete Puma ?
🤣 "How many lumps do ya want?"
I don't want no tea. It gives me a headache! 😁
@@mrl3402 COFFEE!!!!!!!
I sure do! "I don't want any tea - It gives me a headache!" "What will you have?" "Cwawfee!"
I do!!!
I remembered he always sang in these skits, but I had forgotten what an amazing voice Frank Fontaine had. Absolute gold.
The Jackie Gleason Show was a staple in my household for eight years.
we always watched the show on saturday nights. 'my gal sal"
And "Oh sole mio" at the beginning of the sketch.
@@jmccracken1963 i think i remember 'my gal sal' at hte beginning and end.
So love ❤️ it. This is one of my dad's favorite episodes.
Performing an entire sketch live without having to stare at cue cards the whole time, and actually looking at the person you're talking too. Unlike SNL where they stare at a cue card waiting to read off their next line.
Oh man, I remember watching this show when I was kid. I'm showing my age but I don't care!
Wow they were great actors
...'I THINK HE PLAYED SECOND HARPOON IN THE TORONTO SYMPHONY'... WHAT A GREAT LINE!
I Watched this 58 yrs ago, and my Hero Just went to be with GOD, Willie Mays. Thank You Willie from All of US.
From Cambridge, Ma; live in Medford (?) and Winchester .. I met one of his son's (a Bartender) in San Diego, around 1998 .. Told me a lot of interesting stories about his dad & Jackie Gleason ..
They don't make 'em like that anymore!
God bless them what talent, there still make me smile and reminisce about when I was young.
Times where different.
Nothing but pure raw talent. I used to watch this when I was a kid. Loved it.
I used to watch this when I was about four, thank you for posting.
Frank Fontaine was also on Jack Benny's radio show, playing the same character, but named John L.C. Sivoney. And he was the inspiration for the WB cartoon character, Pete Puma.
wow..what a flood of memories of better days..real comedy that was not dirty...we too, family, gathered around our 19" b/w and watched with smiles and laughter..thx for content..
Frank Fontaine first did this on the Jack Benny radio program as John Spomoni who was broke and asked Jack for a dime for coffee , Jack gave him 50 cents. John bought a lottery ticket and won. Jack demanded the prize was his throughout the episode.
*John L. C. Sivoney*
@@OofusTwillip Thanks for the correction, I remembered it was something like that.
The networks were full of these great shows in the 50’s.Jack Benny,George Burns,Red Skeleton,Lucille Ball,and others.Those were the best years for true,wholesome entertainment.
"How sweet it is!"
They were the greatest.
Comedy without using a four letter word, how wonderful.
..I watched this every Saturday night with my mom & dad!!!
This was real fun re-watching this. Thanks for posting.
I remember watching many episodes of this as a kid. Much better than the comedy now.
OMG. This was great. I'm old enough to remember the show.
I remember that as a child. I was born in 1958. The 60s were the best days of my life.
These two had fans of all kinds. When Bob Uecker and Tim McCarver were together on the St. Louis Cardinals, they used to improvise their own Joe and Crazy routines for the guys in the locker room. I'd guess their material was a tad more adult oriented than Frank and Jackie's though.
I lived in the Bronx across the street from the old Yankee Stadium in 1966
I remember as a little kid watching on our old broken tv we needed pliers to change the channels , Does anybody remember back then we had trucks that had kiddy amusement rides that would ride around the streets for a few cents you could get on and enjoy a ride , good old days
Back in “the day” life was so much more uncomplicated. Never in a trillion years could this old Catholic believe our world would be so CONFUSING So grateful I was born instead of now. .
God Bless ♥️🙏♥️
Me too.
This was a good vido because you got to hear more at the end of My Gal Sal by Gleason.
Watched this with Daddy in the 60's . As a kid the guy amazed me. RIP
My Dad and I watched Jackie & Frankie together on Saturday nights, when I was a boy in Cleveland, Ohio. My Dad love both of them! I did too!
I forgot Frank had such a beautiful voice. Two great talents.
These were the days. Simple times. He had such a great voice. Always looked forward to this show on a black n white tv with bug ears. God bless the time we grew up in.
This is a breath of fresh air from today's chaos. LOVE IT!
gleason was a genius....but this bit was lifted from duffy's tavern
Some of my favorite memories are from sitting and watching Gleason, and Red Skelton. My pop would just howl with laughter. 😂
I was in 1966
I remember sitting in front of that old TV with My Parents. Memories of a Time long ....long ago. ☺️
my brother and I were kids back then, and loved the jackie gleason show.
"Wow, different times" ..
i remember watching this show as a kid and being SHOCKED the first time i heard frankie fontaine's voice. smooth as butter. he fooled a lot of people with that routine. great show.
"Captain Nemo was married, he was married to a woman." Now why did that get such a big laugh? Miss those days.
Thank you so much for this wonderful laughable memory!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥹I haven’t heard these since the 60’s❤
FRANK FONTAINE, a voice heaven sent.😮❤
my father loved jackie gleason, and more than likely frank fontaine, i'd never seen this or them but it holds up well, really campy but a great routine, love how jackie keeps getting irritated then repeatedly drawn back into the story.
Loved them , but can’t help but notice how much of our childhood was spent watching drunk guy comedies.
Two funny men legends
Im sure we all remember the TV show the Honeymooners Those were the days of clean comedy back in the 50s and 60s I loved Joe the 🍺 bartender and special guest Frank Fontaine as Crazy Guggenheim what a beautiful singing voice and comedy sketches by both Frank Fontaine and Jackie Gleason another great person was Red Skeleton
Every Sunday at 7 was Gleason time.
how old are you 100? 😂
Saturday, not Sunday
Saturday at.6:30pk
Beautiful voice, just beautiful...
@@vanguard4065how old are you? NINE. 😂
I used to LOVE Jackie Gleason, & Crazy Guggenheim was ALWAYS funny! Jackie’s expressions are HILARIOUS! 👏🏽😃
*oh, how many were shocked when Crazy started singing? *
Could never do this in our modern age!
Classic funny stuff!!! 😆
I loved that show
I was single digit age when The Jackie Gleason Show was in production , and I remember watching it with my parents . We always looked forward to his " Joe The Bartender " segment ! I remembered the show so fondly , that from memory , I figured out a recurrent musical theme from the show , a beautiful piece entitled " Tenderly " in chord / melody style on my guitar . We'll never have entertainment like this again !
We watched this show when I was growing up. I was fabulous 😂
I, too, remember watching "The Jackie Gleason Show" as a young lad (I'll turn 66 later this summer!), when it was a one-hour variety show on Saturday evenings on CBS. If I remember rightly, the "Joe the Bartender/Crazy Guggenheim" sketch aired in the last quarter-hour of the show. I, too, remember the outstanding musical numbers, and the Reginald Van Gleason and "The Poor Soul" sketches, as well.
Sadly, the sketch aired here was from the last season of the hour-long variety show based in New York. From fall of 1966 until the show's cancellation in 1970, Jackie Gleason elected to relocate to "the sun and fun of Miami Beach," with tired, bloated, hourlong musical versions of "The Honeymooners" airing each week, in the company of Art Carney, Sheila MacRae, Jane Kean, Sammy Spear and his orchestra, the June Taylor Dancers, and announcer Johnny Olsen. The production values may have been good, but the shows themselves were not in those last 4 seasons.
Jackie's eyes said volumes.....😘
then Frank started singing.....just wow, wow.
Actually met Frank Fontaine at a local radio station where I interned while in high school back in the late 60s. Very nice man.
Wow. That voice following directly after his sketch is so perfect it's actually shocking
I was 8 when this was on... LOVED Crazy G