Paul was a major Broadway star playing the father in the musical Bye Bye Birdie. He had worked many years on stage to get that far. He recreated the role in the movie version of Bye bye Birdie. He became a fixture playing characters on comedy shows like Bewitched and Dean Martin and films. He had his own sitcom for a year. He really made my mom laugh so hard. He was so much more than this game show. I used to imitate him in high school and make my classmates laugh. He could merely say two words like "Toilet Paper" or "King Kong" and make you laugh the WAY he said it. Like "Do you know you smell like King King today? Shouldn't you take a shower, or would you like me to hose you down?" He is sorely missed by my generation.
Paul Lynde was the best.....He found himself as the "Center square" after his other job was cancelled in Juy 1972 - he was Uncle Arthur on the TV show Bewitched was cancelled after 8 seasons (It had been approved for a 9th season, but the producer & Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha) were also divorcing as she had fallen in love with Robert Foxworth and he was with Elizabeth until she died of cancer in 1996
I was hoping this would make you laugh. And clearly it did. He was such a charming and witty man. Glad you got a good laugh out of this. He was a brilliant comedian ans a great comedic actor as well. Unfortunately he died young. 55 years.
Paul was pulled over by a cop once in Ohio for drunk driving. When the cop got up to the driver's side of the car, he rolled down the window...before the cop could say a word Paul said to him, "I'll have a hamburger and fries." 🤣
The Gabor sisters were immigrants from Hungary who went to Hollywood to make it rich. I don't know what shows Magda, the oldest one, was in. Eva, the youngest, had talent and stared in various 1950s movies and the 1960s popular TV show Green Acres. Zsa Zsa did make films, but her wealth came from nine marriages. Magda had six marriages, and Eva five. Hence, Paul Lynne making a joke about the Gabor sisters.
@@olaflangness2907 I best remember Zha Zha from Disney's "The Rescuers" and it's sequel "The Rescuers Down Under" voicing the character of a mouse named Bianca opposite Bob Newhart as Bernard. Those shows are a thousand times more entertaining than anything Disney has released in the last 20 years.
He was a very well known & popular actor of the 1960s & 1970s; he popped up quite frequently in the show 'Bewitched' as 'Uncle Arthur" and other shows of the era.
Godspeed Peter Marshall. Fun fact. Peter's podium had 11 slots. 9 of them made a 3×3 grid. Each slot corresponded to the position of each celebrity (e.g. all of the questions for Paul were on the center, since he was the center square. The slot on the right was for used questions to be discarded. A slot below the grid had the Secret Square question which would be used in place of a corresponding question from the grid. The theme song you heard was officially titled "Bob and Merrill's Theme". Always did like that one😊
I met Paul Lynde in Columbus Ohio in 1981- the year before his death. I was in the elevator with him at the Columbus Sheraton Hotel which was across the street from a theater where he was performing. I asked him if he was Uncle Arthur? He replied yes. I introduced myself and he said "It's nice to meet you young man. So handsome. (pause) ...and young. (pause) ...and thin. (his voice tailing away). Then he quips 'Get outa here kid, you bother me (with a wry smile)". I'll never forget that. He was such a kind and funny man.
He was well known to be a heavy drinker/drunk and I remember this story from many years ago. He was drunk on a plane in 1st Class and this little kid kept running up and down the isles into 1st class. He finally had enough and grabbed the kid under the arms, held him up and announced to coach "The next time this kid runs up here, I'm going to **** it. Don't know how true it is as I've heard it a few times in many years but I can hear his voice saying it while drunk. 🤣🤣
I know Paul Lynde from this show. He's known for his quick funny replies. For the show, a celebrity can either tell the truth or tell a lie for an answer. The contestant has to say they agree or disagree. If they guess right, they get a "square" and if they get 3 in a row, like tick-tack-toe, they win
Yah, maybe some of the answers were scripted ahead of time, but they would have fallen flat without paul Lynde's brilliance. He was just one funny dude, he couldn't help himself. His delivery is so unique, and his attitude is off the charts hilarious.
Because of the time. When Paul Lynn came out as far as you know, being in TV shows and movies he so underrated because he’s gay he never got a shot at being a super celebrity back then. He made me laugh so hard.
he came up with his answers because certain celebrities especially the center person was given the questions ahead of time so the could formulate funny answers.
Several comedic tv actors in the '70s, such as Lynde, resorted to using subtle innuendo to get their point across to the audience, and the censors had no idea what they were actually implying.
i used to love watching him on these shows.... none of it was scripted either... he was a very flamboyant gay man and didnt ever try to conceal it.. rip torn was another one that everyone loved... his candor (pauls) was always unapologetic... he is missed.
Not to take anything away from Paul Lynde's tremendous talent. But..... the funny lines he delivered on the Hollywood Squares were usually pre-scripted by writers.
Ironic that Lynde brought so much laughter to the world, given he was a deeply depressed and often nasty person, shaped by the rapid succession of deaths of his entire family when he was a beginning actor, and due to his weight problems from childhood. He was also tormented by the realization he never became an A-List TV star with a successful show of his own, remaining restricted to this game show and guesting on variety. One reason, at least in his mind, was the controversy of having a younger gay actor he had met in a bar coming back to Lynde's hotel room and falling to his death, in San Francisco in 1965, officially ruled an accident. IIRC, a network had approached him to star in a new sit-com before that scandal, interest that disappeared immediately. In the A&E biography of Lynde, gay actor Bruce Vilanch ruminated the gay community wouldn't have been surprised if he had been responsible for the death, given how nasty his reputation was within gay circles. On Match Game, Charles Nelson Reilly projected the stereotype of a "fag hag", a bitchy, shrewish homosexual man, always quarrelling with equally difficult Brett Somers. With Lynde, the behavior was unfortunately a part of his real off-screen identity. Actor Richard Deacon, who played the imperious producer on the Dick Van Dyke show, was also gay, and late in his life thought he was building a friendship with Lynde over many weeks, only to find out the entire connection was manipulative on Lynde's part for ulterior motives. Then there was an ugly situation when Lynde, publicly drunk, spewed out racial epithets toward a Black police officer.
Paul Lynde was on Bewitched as Uncle Arthur
I watched this as a kid. Paul is hilarious. The Match Game is very funny too. ❤
That's Rose Marie laughing! Cackling...Aaaah!!! hah hah hah hah HAH!
He was definitely a funny, witty man. He was a fixture on game shows and late night talk shows.
Paul was a major Broadway star playing the father in the musical Bye Bye Birdie. He had worked many years on stage to get that far. He recreated the role in the movie version of Bye bye Birdie. He became a fixture playing characters on comedy shows like Bewitched and Dean Martin and films. He had his own sitcom for a year. He really made my mom laugh so hard. He was so much more than this game show. I used to imitate him in high school and make my classmates laugh. He could merely say two words like "Toilet Paper" or "King Kong" and make you laugh the WAY he said it. Like "Do you know you smell like King King today? Shouldn't you take a shower, or would you like me to hose you down?" He is sorely missed by my generation.
Paul Lynde was an icon in the 60s to 80s. Great actor and comedian. Hollywood Squares is a gameshow they should bring back.
No one in Hollyweird is smart enough to play it.
@@ronaldnelson6692 it is back but sucks
Paul Lynde was the best!!!!
I loved his voice on the animated movie Charlettes Web as the rat!!!❤️😄
They give the guests in the squares the questions ahead of time so they can think up funny answers for the show.
I forgot how funny Paul Lynde was, excellent.
I watched this as a kid and they always made each other laugh. They were out of control
Paul was one of the greats from back in the day….loved him!
His Wit was incredible ‼️
This and Match Game were my favorites as a kid.
Paul was a 70 s Icon
Great character actor and comedian
Paul Lynde was the best.....He found himself as the "Center square" after his other job was cancelled in Juy 1972 - he was Uncle Arthur on the TV show Bewitched was cancelled after 8 seasons (It had been approved for a 9th season, but the producer & Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha) were also divorcing as she had fallen in love with Robert Foxworth and he was with Elizabeth until she died of cancer in 1996
He was so funny😂😂😂
He was Samantha’s Uncle on Bewitched and made guest appearances on Laugh In and other shows then of course he was on Hollywood Squares.
I was hoping this would make you laugh. And clearly it did. He was such a charming and witty man. Glad you got a good laugh out of this. He was a brilliant comedian ans a great comedic actor as well. Unfortunately he died young. 55 years.
Paul was pulled over by a cop once in Ohio for drunk driving. When the cop got up to the driver's side of the car, he rolled down the window...before the cop could say a word Paul said to him, "I'll have a hamburger and fries." 🤣
The Gabor sisters were immigrants from Hungary who went to Hollywood to make it rich. I don't know what shows Magda, the oldest one, was in. Eva, the youngest, had talent and stared in various 1950s movies and the 1960s popular TV show Green Acres. Zsa Zsa did make films, but her wealth came from nine marriages. Magda had six marriages, and Eva five. Hence, Paul Lynne making a joke about the Gabor sisters.
@@olaflangness2907 I best remember Zha Zha from Disney's "The Rescuers" and it's sequel "The Rescuers Down Under" voicing the character of a mouse named Bianca opposite Bob Newhart as Bernard. Those shows are a thousand times more entertaining than anything Disney has released in the last 20 years.
Oh my dear!!! He's is so on spot natural with his repelys.
FYI, Sarah, Leavenworth was (maybe still is) a well-known federal prison for men, located in Kansas, USA.
@@JohnH.Sturgis it’s a prison for the incarceration of members of the US military who commit crimes while serving in the military.
Loved watching this show as a kid
He was a genius at always almost crossing the line of what you could say on TV back then.
I was a child when I saw him as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched. My parents watched Hollywood Squares. I don't remember NOT knowing who Paul was.
Exactly. I grew up with Paul (not literally lol)
Okay Sarah, I'm gonna need an oxygen bottle from laughing so hard! 😂😂😅😅 Thank you, as always! Stay well. 😇🌹
He is very funny 😂😂😂
There was a reason he was in the center square. What a quick wit and delivery.
He was a very well known & popular actor of the 1960s & 1970s; he popped up quite frequently in the show 'Bewitched' as 'Uncle Arthur" and other shows of the era.
I grew up watching Hollywood Squares. I remember rushing home from school to watch it! Paul Lynne was so funny! 😂
Try watching a TV show from the 1960’s called Bewitched. He plays Uncle Arthur. He’s even more hilarious.
My favorite Paul Lynde answer was this:
Q: If you pat a dog on its head, it will wag its tail. What will a goose do?
A: Make him bark!🤣
Look up Uncle Arthur from Bewitched
Hi always enjoyed Paul Lynde you cant help but laugh
Sarah, he was my favorite and mostly why I watched.
I grew up with Hollywood Squares.....thanks for the memory.
Godspeed Peter Marshall. Fun fact. Peter's podium had 11 slots. 9 of them made a 3×3 grid. Each slot corresponded to the position of each celebrity (e.g. all of the questions for Paul were on the center, since he was the center square. The slot on the right was for used questions to be discarded. A slot below the grid had the Secret Square question which would be used in place of a corresponding question from the grid. The theme song you heard was officially titled "Bob and Merrill's Theme". Always did like that one😊
I met Paul Lynde in Columbus Ohio in 1981- the year before his death. I was in the elevator with him at the Columbus Sheraton Hotel which was across the street from a theater where he was performing. I asked him if he was Uncle Arthur? He replied yes. I introduced myself and he said "It's nice to meet you young man. So handsome. (pause) ...and young. (pause) ...and thin. (his voice tailing away). Then he quips 'Get outa here kid, you bother me (with a wry smile)". I'll never forget that. He was such a kind and funny man.
If you watch the 1973 cartoon of Charlotte's Web, Paul provides the voice for Templeton the rat.
He was hilarious in the day, he's been gone for years but I remember watching that show as a kid
You had me in stitches and I have seen this many times.
He was from Bewitched!
He was well known to be a heavy drinker/drunk and I remember this story from many years ago. He was drunk on a plane in 1st Class and this little kid kept running up and down the isles into 1st class. He finally had enough and grabbed the kid under the arms, held him up and announced to coach "The next time this kid runs up here, I'm going to **** it. Don't know how true it is as I've heard it a few times in many years but I can hear his voice saying it while drunk. 🤣🤣
Dang my dad used to love him lmao lol I'm just 39 and because of you Sarah im gonna have to start wearing depends for old men in theyre 70s lol 😂😂😂😂😅😅
He was the Templeton in Charlotte's web
I know Paul Lynde from this show. He's known for his quick funny replies. For the show, a celebrity can either tell the truth or tell a lie for an answer. The contestant has to say they agree or disagree. If they guess right, they get a "square" and if they get 3 in a row, like tick-tack-toe, they win
Paul's lifestyle back then was something that wasn't acknowledged like it is today.
Paul was a great entertainer and comedian.
Yah, maybe some of the answers were scripted ahead of time, but they would have fallen flat
without paul Lynde's brilliance. He was just one funny dude, he couldn't help himself. His delivery
is so unique, and his attitude is off the charts hilarious.
Because of the time. When Paul Lynn came out as far as you know, being in TV shows and movies he so underrated because he’s gay he never got a shot at being a super celebrity back then. He made me laugh so hard.
Ha ha haha... Brings me back to my youth.
isnt the first one Mama's family, the spin off??
he came up with his answers because certain celebrities especially the center person was given the questions ahead of time so the could formulate funny answers.
I recognise that voice. Its the Hooded Claw from the Penelope Pitstop cartoons.
0:38: Karen Valentine! My first celebrity crush! 🥰
Lynde was an out gay. He often played to the stereotypes making him 'mostly harmless'. He also did serious acting in film, TV, and stage.
This looks like Mommas Family the spin off. My mom and I laughed at a wedding
Leavenworth is a federal penitentiary
You must listen to Rodney Dangerfield! And Sam kinison
Several comedic tv actors in the '70s, such as Lynde, resorted to using subtle innuendo to get their point across to the audience, and the censors had no idea what they were actually implying.
Congrats on expecting, just wondered if you heard this one: Kristoffer Fogelmark - Love Was My Alibi.
Oh SARAH, ThANK For Such Hysteria. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Leavenworth is a federal prison 😂
This was a big 1970’s game show
My Dad thought that he was great. They both went to Northwestern as did I later.
He was very funny on all the shows he was on.
He was one of the first mainstream gay comedians.
President Lincoln was born in Kentucky.
Paul Lynde was what I grew up with!!! This was my first introduction to a gay man, and I fell in love!!!!
i used to love watching him on these shows.... none of it was scripted either... he was a very flamboyant gay man and didnt ever try to conceal it.. rip torn was another one that everyone loved... his candor (pauls) was always unapologetic... he is missed.
hey were given the question ahead of time not the joke
He was a comedian back in the day
I do believe he also was the voice of the rat in Charlotte's web or at at least I can remember
If you like Paul Lynde, look for Buddy Hackett or George Goble compilations.
Leavenworth has a federal and military prison for those who didn't know.
Loneliness 😂
Not to take anything away from Paul Lynde's tremendous talent. But..... the funny lines he delivered on the Hollywood Squares were usually pre-scripted by writers.
Comedic timing is instinctive. You either have it or you don't. And he had it in spades.
Leavenworth - his joke about where you will find couples strolling arm-in-arm, etc ... Leavenworth is a prison.
Although very funny, the answers were predetermined. I certainly miss Hollywood squares and all the stars that were on the show.
Paul Lynde was hilarious back in the day. Everyone knew he was gay and no oe cared, he was hilarious.
Super "catty" and hilarious.
2024 the government.......the same😏
Leavenworth is a federal prison for male inmates .
Levinworth is a federal prison.
The celebrities were given the questions before the show so they could think of answers.
:) ♥♥♥1 Corinthians 15:57 "But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ".
Ironic that Lynde brought so much laughter to the world, given he was a deeply depressed and often nasty person, shaped by the rapid succession of deaths of his entire family when he was a beginning actor, and due to his weight problems from childhood. He was also tormented by the realization he never became an A-List TV star with a successful show of his own, remaining restricted to this game show and guesting on variety. One reason, at least in his mind, was the controversy of having a younger gay actor he had met in a bar coming back to Lynde's hotel room and falling to his death, in San Francisco in 1965, officially ruled an accident. IIRC, a network had approached him to star in a new sit-com before that scandal, interest that disappeared immediately. In the A&E biography of Lynde, gay actor Bruce Vilanch ruminated the gay community wouldn't have been surprised if he had been responsible for the death, given how nasty his reputation was within gay circles. On Match Game, Charles Nelson Reilly projected the stereotype of a "fag hag", a bitchy, shrewish homosexual man, always quarrelling with equally difficult Brett Somers. With Lynde, the behavior was unfortunately a part of his real off-screen identity. Actor Richard Deacon, who played the imperious producer on the Dick Van Dyke show, was also gay, and late in his life thought he was building a friendship with Lynde over many weeks, only to find out the entire connection was manipulative on Lynde's part for ulterior motives. Then there was an ugly situation when Lynde, publicly drunk, spewed out racial epithets toward a Black police officer.
Sarah, Leavenworth is a prison