paul lynde

Kiss still annoys me. And Paul Lynde clearly died as a direct result of how bad that ABC special is.

i have the halloween special on dvd. yes, it's bad; yes, i'm glad i own it.

:) Fair 'nuff.

Listening to Gilbert Gottfried's podcast with Weird Al guesting, and Gilbert tells a little aside about Lynde.

Lynde was booked to do a show at some tiny and run-down dinner theater. He walks in pre-show and says (and read this in Lynde's voice in your head)...

"This place smells like cunt...

...I think."

his breakthrough on Broadway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3PvcpWbUIg

Someone in West Hollywood just mistook my Paul Lynde shirt for George W. Bush so it's definitely time to teach homosexuality in schools. pic.twitter.com/nT7nsSpveZ

— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) June 6, 2017

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Peter Marshall: True or false...there are more psychiatrists in Beverly Hills than plumbers.
Paul Lynde: When my toilet's backed up, I don't care who fixes it.

Peter Marshall: Eddie Fisher recently stated, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry for them both.” Who or what was he referring to?
Paul Lynde: His fans.

Peter Marshall: When you pat a dog on its head he will usually wag his tail. What will a goose do?
Paul Lynde: Make him bark.

Peter Marshall: If the right part comes along, will George C. Scott do a nude scene?
Paul Lynde: You mean he doesn't have the right part?

Peter Marshall: According to Tony Randall, "Every woman I've been intimate with in my life has been..." What?
Paul Lynde: Bitterly disappointed.

Peter Marshall: Prometheus was tied to the top of a mountain by the gods because he had given something to man. What did he give us?
Paul Lynde: I don't know what you got, but I got a sports shirt.

Peter Marshall: What do you call a man who gives you diamonds and pearls?
Paul Lynde: I'd call him "darling"!

Peter Marshall: Is it possible for the puppies in a litter to have more than one daddy?
Paul Lynde: Why, that bitch!

Peter Marshall: Fred Astaire says, his mother has been trying to get him to do this since he was 35. But he hasn't done it and says he won't do it until he's ready. Do what?
Paul Lynde: Move out of the house!

Peter Marshall: It is the most abused and neglected part of your body—what is it?
Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused but it certainly isn't neglected!

Peter Marshall: Elizabeth Taylor calls it 'the Big One.' What is it?
Paul Lynde: They both look the same to me!

Peter Marshall: Lana Turner recently said, "I won't do it because I haven't stopped living my life by a long shot." What won't she do?
Paul Lynde: The Merv Griffin Show.

Peter Marshall: Paul. a recent navy picture had Admiral Zumwalt kissing Admiral Duirk. Why?
Paul Lynde: Too long at sea!

Peter Marshall: When Henry Kissinger recently visited Japan, he went to a Geisha House, now how did he spent his time in the Geisha House?
Paul Lynde: Negotiating for peace.

Peter Marshall: Now listen carefully, Paul...during the time of the hula hoop, the yo-yo, and Davy Crockett hats, who was in the White House?
Paul Lynde: I'll say the yo-yo.

Peter Marshall: Glen Campbell recently stated, “Love to me is something you ..." Something you what?
Paul Lynde: Purchase.

Peter Marshall: Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?
Paul Lynde: Loneliness.

Peter Marshall: Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?

Peter Marshall: Who are more likely to be romantically responsive. Women under thirty or women over thirty?
Paul Lynde: I don’t have a third choice…?

Peter Marshall: Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

Peter Marshall: Oh, Paul, what would we ever do without you?
Paul Lynde: Replace me with Charles Nelson Reilly.

I freely confess that I resent the Maureen Stapleton verses on 'Kids'; it should be all Lynde.

— BANDZ STACKHAGE (@NickPinkerton) August 27, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hygzqj2QreM

FYI, the Halloween special has just been reissued after the previous edition fell out of print and became prohibitively expensive.

I went on a 'Lynde on Hollywood Squares' YouTube spree the other day and laughed my fool head off while acknowledging that he definitely deserved a classier venue.

I'm not sure an actor could pull it off, but I think some kind of bio film about him might actually be compelling, centering on his status as the inhabitant of the biggest "glass closet" in showbiz for about 15-20 years. It'd likely take a high-profile auteur to make it, given the period subject/details -- a la Soderbergh with Liberace.

I was thinking the same! Watching him, there's a palpable tension in his willingness to push right up to the edge of how acceptably out he could publicly be at that time. And I'm sure he was frustratingly aware of how limited his career was ever likely to be even despite his obvious talent.

It'd be a sad film, though. He was a mean drunk, it's widely been said.

Peter Marshall: Burt Reynolds is quoted as saying, "Dinah (Shore)'s in top form. I've never known anyone to be so completely able to throw herself into a..." A what?

Paul Lynde: A headboard.

*bump* for Halloween

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaqAc0Cghgc