Dean perfected the drunk cool guy. It was the persona he went to after the break-up with Lewis and perfected with the Rat Pack. In fact, Dean was up every morning at 6am to play golf. Had dinner most every night with his family. Drank apple juice on stage, not Scotch. And had no problems leaving Sinatra and Co-who would drink into the wee hours-to go to bed.
Not drunk. Moves around in the chair due to a bad painful back and on meds. That can make you loopy. Dean performed in London in 1983 and was a pro as usual.@@barbaraferron7994
How did I know he would say the Rifleman....There will never be another pair like these two. 2 classy and funny guys...I miss the old days when having talent meant you had talent to begin with.
He always appeared to be drunk. After his death, his son said he was not a heavy drinker. It was all a put on. When he performed in Las Vegas he performed on stage with a drink in his hand. His son said it was apple juice. His daughter Dina said, "Don't expect any "Daddie Dearest" revelations from any of us."
Hollywood is a shell of its former self. These guys were top shelf originals. They would be embarrassed of what these Hollywood so-called actors and actresses are doing to the America that that Dean and Johnny's generation was very proud of.
If he is faking being drunk, it is the best act next to Foster Brooks! He is very coherent and witty. He didn't need to put on the act. We all would have loved him anyway.
Love this interview so much. Just three great friends sitting, having a ball of a time. Love Dean Martin, so hilariously funny and one of the greatest singers that has ever lived. One of the best comics ever as well. He looks so handsome and cute here. ❤ ♥️ 😆📺😍🥰😘🤩 🌟 ✨
@@onlythewise1 according to dean, and his family, he admitted that he would have a glass or two of wine with dinner only because early in the morning he would have to wake up to go to the golf course
@@donaldperez7981 oh yaa get exercise and i saw him live in las vegas but i not smart enough to ask if i get to meet him i only 21 even some guy or body guard say go in here i was walking by and i walk in and was rat pack talking and playing on stage .
Johnny stepped all over Dean’s punch line on the novel and got the big laugh, then realized what he had done and felt bad. But Dean could care less. He just kept rolling.
@@davidpanetta6400 Correct. The Late night shows today are now simply " Woke Political Propaganda Hack Shows" & have none of the humor or CLASS of Carson. Not even close.
Loved watching his variety show back in the late 60's, especially when he had "The Golddiggers" dancers on. I may have been young, but they were fun to look at. 😁 I say that partly in jest, because they were all talented ladies, but they were also VERY beautiful ladies too.
Dean considered himself a boring guy, that's why he started playing the bumbling drunk, it was a way to deal with his own insecurities and entertain people at the same time. And as you can see, he was brilliant.
I am 46. I have been a fan of Dean Martin and Frank since I was 12 or 13. Nothing better. What other fifteen year old asked for an Ink Spots record for Christmas? Me. That's who.
I wondered when he started his on stage gimmick as a drunk because I don't recall ever seeing this in his earlier work. And he carried this wherever he went. If it were me I would have kept this to onstage as people may talk and start showing me in a negative light.
In several interviews the family always mentioned that he would only have a glass of wine or two only with dinner cuz he would have to wake up early in the morning to go play golf. His prop people on stage would always mention that he would ask for Martinelli's Apple juice by name.
@@franciscrocombe It all started when he and Jerry Lewis broke off the partnership. He needed to reinvent himself, it's too long to explain; but what happened was, when he would go up on stage when he was on his own, he would look a little stiff unnatural so suggested to him why don't you have a glass of wine or two light up a cigarette look natural that way you don't look so stiff and that's how it started. It works so well for him, did it keep using it over and over until it kind of got a little old; but people expected that of him which is why he continue to put on the ACT. It was almost as if he couldn't get rid of it even if he wanted to because people expected that of him.
@@johnsjohnson448 Bullshit. The rest of the Rat Pack, nearly every celebrity that knew him, his family and Dean himself are on record explaining that the drunkenness was just a persona he created because his fans loved it and it made him a huge television star. Good actors can "Act" their way through most anything and your belief that he was a drunk shows how good an actor he was.
He was not a drunk; it was an act. That and the corny jokes. Numerous people have testified to the fact (including his daughter), that he always had apple juice in the glass, and he did not like parties. Never went along with Frank's parties. He could never have been a top level golfer, golfing every day first thing in the morning, raised and trained Andalusian horses, had a successful TV show for 10 years, carried on with a successful roast show for years, spent 10 years suffering with Jerry Lewis and making $$ hand over fist -- if he had been a drunk. Besides the fact that he never looked like a drunk, he had a great complexion, a superb physique, and he was drop-dead gorgeous-attractive to women, and men.
He was on the pain pills at this time. Percodon was a very popular drug then til it was realized how dangerously addictive it is. Dean had bad back from golfing. Jerry Lewis also was taking it.
I noticed that....you can tell early in the interview he kept moving in his chair trying to get comfortable...as somebody who has back issues I caught that right away
He did himself on that he mention. The Big Show it was like his old shows. He also still doing concerts.. He went over to England in 83 to do concerts, was honor by some group over there and to celebrate his birthday that year. He was still doing fine her. He was 63 years old here.
But there was something terribly wrong with Dean by this time. Not booze. I followed Dean's career closely and never once did I hear anyone who actually knew Dean say that he drank to excess. But the slowness of speech was getting to be a very regular thing, including during serious interviews. Percodan? Perhaps. Or primary progressive aphasia, or something of the sort.
It's his signature act. He started it in his night club performances following the style of Joe E. Lewis. Then everyone seemed to like it. So, he kept the act through out his life.
A lot of people ask the same question. When he broke off the partnership with Jerry Lewis he needed a reinvent himself. Before he became famous he used to open up for The Mills Brothers in the 40s and was kind of stiff and nervous up on stage. So Harry Mills suggested that he would light up a cigarette, and have a drink or two to come down your nerves before you go up on stage. So he kind of did that and it worked for him. And he was a type of person that if something worked, don't change it. And he said in interviews, I can't change it even if I wanted to because people expect that from me cuz now it's part of my image. In other words he was like another Foster Brooks. Though I will admit, it was getting old after a while.
Hi, Dean did drink, he admitted that many times. But he didn’t drink when working. This was his schtick. Every entertainer back then had a gimmick, Lucille Ball was the bumbler, Jack Benny was the tight wad, Sinatra was the swinger, Jerry Lewis was the idiot etc. Dean developed this character after he & Lewis split & a comedian named Joe E. Lewis, who did the same sort of drunk act retired. Dean did start drinking more heavily after his son was killed in 1987. If you pay attention to his quick wit during this clip you’ll know someone who’s drunk couldn’t do that. He always had a relaxed even lackadaisical way of speaking & that helped his drunk act a lot. Also, that’s his real hair. His dad also had thick hair.
Huh? I apologize if I misunderstood your original comment of “he’s so smashed” & “bad toop”. The truth is if he was drunk in this video he wouldn’t be able to ad lib as fast & as funny as he did.
Dean was one of our greatest natural comics.
Dean perfected the drunk cool guy. It was the persona he went to after the break-up with Lewis and perfected with the Rat Pack. In fact, Dean was up every morning at 6am to play golf. Had dinner most every night with his family. Drank apple juice on stage, not Scotch. And had no problems leaving Sinatra and Co-who would drink into the wee hours-to go to bed.
This was way beyond his drunk act more like a senile act.
@@barbaraferron7994 I heard you were a mean drunk!! 🥹
@@Djm8520 ? I haven't had a drink since the 1980's,
Not drunk. Moves around in the chair due to a bad painful back and on meds. That can make you loopy. Dean performed in London in 1983 and was a pro as usual.@@barbaraferron7994
Dean was and always will be the best❤
How I loved and enjoyed Dean!!!!!
How did I know he would say the Rifleman....There will never be another pair like these two. 2 classy and funny guys...I miss the old days when having talent meant you had talent to begin with.
He always appeared to be drunk. After his death, his son said he was not a heavy drinker. It was all a put on.
When he performed in Las Vegas he performed on stage with a drink in his hand. His son said it was apple juice.
His daughter Dina said, "Don't expect any "Daddie Dearest" revelations from any of us."
2 of the Absolute Best!!
Hollywood is a shell of its former self.
These guys were top shelf originals.
They would be embarrassed of what these Hollywood so-called actors and actresses are doing to the America that that Dean and Johnny's generation was very proud of.
Absolutely fabulous, Dean was the greatest entertainer that ever lived 👏👏👏🥰🥰💕
Elaine stone,I think you meant to say Sammy Davis Jr.
My vote goes to ELVIS
@@gregamerson9172 ,no one including Elvis could have done the act of Sammy Davis jr.sammy was the greatest all around entertainer that ever lived.
@@robertrothberg8678 that's your opinion NOT MINE. Sam couldn't carry elvis's microphone as far as I'm concerned
@@gregamerson9172 ,the fact was that Sammy was recognized as the world's greatest entertainer.there must have been a valid reason for that title.
“Am I being interrogated?” 😂😂. Gotta love this old charmer.
If he is faking being drunk, it is the best act next to Foster Brooks! He is very coherent and witty. He didn't need to put on the act. We all would have loved him anyway.
Love this interview so much. Just three great friends sitting, having a ball of a time. Love Dean Martin, so hilariously funny and one of the greatest singers that has ever lived. One of the best comics ever as well. He looks so handsome and cute here. ❤ ♥️ 😆📺😍🥰😘🤩 🌟 ✨
Dean Martin unique singer with the most romantic voice what a great singer ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ rest in peace
I grew up watching Dean Martin always love Dean Martin always the coolest
The cigarettes aged him to soon. But still one of the best.
Cigarettes? What, in between the 6martinis and 2 bottles of wine ? Guy was a lush lol
@@britton6062 he drink how much not any one know
The drunk thing was a shtick
@@onlythewise1 according to dean, and his family, he admitted that he would have a glass or two of wine with dinner only because early in the morning he would have to wake up to go to the golf course
@@donaldperez7981 oh yaa get exercise and i saw him live in las vegas but i not smart enough to ask if i get to meet him i only 21 even some guy or body guard say go in here i was walking by and i walk in and was rat pack talking and playing on stage .
Johnny stepped all over Dean’s punch line on the novel and got the big laugh, then realized what he had done and felt bad. But Dean could care less. He just kept rolling.
This entertainment is about 100 times BETTER than the "Woke Political Hacks" who are on Late Night presently.
Johhny Carson was the best! After Jay Leno left the The Tonight Show, I stopped watching The Tonight Show.
@@davidpanetta6400 Correct. The Late night shows today are now simply " Woke Political Propaganda Hack Shows" & have none of the humor or CLASS of Carson.
Not even close.
The greatest......the only......Dean......R.I.P.👏🥇🔥❤️
Loved watching his variety show back in the late 60's, especially when he had "The Golddiggers" dancers on. I may have been young, but they were fun to look at. 😁 I say that partly in jest, because they were all talented ladies, but they were also VERY beautiful ladies too.
I LOVE DEAN MARTIN💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
ABSOLUTE LEGEND 👍🏻
So much fun to watch, I miss Johnny ❤️😞
Omg, I’ve dreamed to watch this again, many-many thanks for posting MDCW ❤️👏!
Reminds me of trying to hold a conversation with my Grandpa.
No sense of humour, obviously.
This is terrific! This must be towards the end the 90 minute run. Thanks for sharing.
This is great! Dean was so cool 😎 Thanks so much for posting this 👍
He always did that thing with the step….
Dean considered himself a boring guy, that's why he started playing the bumbling drunk, it was a way to deal with his own insecurities and entertain people at the same time. And as you can see, he was brilliant.
I wouldn't say he ever considered himself boring, but he was humble. Was able to command attention on stage, even outshining Sinatra, easily
@@susantunbridge4612 Neither would I but he used the word himself, boring...
I had this on VHS long ago. The quality was never this good & got lost over the years. Thank you for sharing these gems.
Two masters
He was 62 or 63 years old here.
Thanks for putting this back up!
I am 46. I have been a fan of Dean Martin and Frank since I was 12 or 13. Nothing better. What other fifteen year old asked for an Ink Spots record for Christmas? Me. That's who.
Dean Martin, at this point in his life didn't need money! He enjoyed his life to the fullest, and yes he drank!
Not as much as was reported. He wasnt drunk here. It was a shtick
I wondered when he started his on stage gimmick as a drunk because I don't recall ever seeing this in his earlier work. And he carried this wherever he went. If it were me I would have kept this to onstage as people may talk and start showing me in a negative light.
In several interviews the family always mentioned that he would only have a glass of wine or two only with dinner cuz he would have to wake up early in the morning to go play golf. His prop people on stage would always mention that he would ask for Martinelli's Apple juice by name.
@@franciscrocombe It all started when he and Jerry Lewis broke off the partnership. He needed to reinvent himself, it's too long to explain; but what happened was, when he would go up on stage when he was on his own, he would look a little stiff unnatural so suggested to him why don't you have a glass of wine or two light up a cigarette look natural that way you don't look so stiff and that's how it started. It works so well for him, did it keep using it over and over until it kind of got a little old; but people expected that of him which is why he continue to put on the ACT. It was almost as if he couldn't get rid of it even if he wanted to because people expected that of him.
@@franciscrocombe When Dean and Jerry broke up, in deana martins book, she stated jeannie thought a drink in his hand would be a good image for him.
Great entrance
If he was NOT drunk, he's the best actor of all time....lmao 🤣
He’s playing the part of a drunk.
He's certainly a great actor. Great at a lot of things. Amd almost all of the time he was not drunk. Apple juice. Just a prop
I believe that Dean was Drunk. In later years he looked like a drunk. One cannot "Act" their way through that.
@@johnsjohnson448 Bullshit. The rest of the Rat Pack, nearly every celebrity that knew him, his family and Dean
himself are on record explaining that the drunkenness was just a persona he created because his fans loved it
and it made him a huge television star. Good actors can "Act" their way through most anything and your belief
that he was a drunk shows how good an actor he was.
NBC wouldnt have left a long running tv series of 9-10 years with an alcoholic. It was all part of the act.
DEAN IS A LIVING LEGEND!!
correct
No offense intended, but he passed many years ago, so he's no longer living.., but he is a legend none the less. 😉
If Dean was alive today he’d be 105. It’s possible to live that age, but uncommon. But he died in 1995 at 78.
But, he wouldn't realize it. 😂
@@kroakie4
Def a shell of himself. Hardly smiling in this interview. He always smiled!!
He's playing a part
It’s a sketch
great video
Even drunk, he still had class.
Classic
I want his jacket.
Thought I was watching Foster Brooks holy hell..
You should see the apple...
When he tells Johnny don't quit
he is playing it most of the time, yeah he drinks a lot but most of the time if he in carlsons he is playin' all along
Harstky and Stuch..😂😂
Percodan and booze. It's a wild ride!
That's the thing about Dean you never know if he was really faking it or if he was really half in the bag
To some people. But it was all part of the ACT because people expected that of him and he would continue instead of just dropping it.
He was not a drunk; it was an act. That and the corny jokes. Numerous people have testified to the fact (including his daughter), that he always had apple juice in the glass, and he did not like parties. Never went along with Frank's parties.
He could never have been a top level golfer, golfing every day first thing in the morning, raised and trained Andalusian horses, had a successful TV show for 10 years, carried on with a successful roast show for years, spent 10 years suffering with Jerry Lewis and making $$ hand over fist -- if he had been a drunk. Besides the fact that he never looked like a drunk, he had a great complexion, a superb physique, and he was drop-dead gorgeous-attractive to women, and men.
DEAN MARTIN
07 DE JUNIO DE 1917
25 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1995
78 AÑOS
Barsky and Skutch, mmm musta missed that one.
How'd all these people get in my room
He didn't look that great here, but he did live another 15 years!
When Dean's son was killed in a plane crash, Dean was never the same again. RIP Dean. You were amazing.
@@kevindoran3367 this was before the death of Dean Paul. This one taped in 1980
His son didn't die until 1987.
It was part of his act. He loved to seem out of it.
He worked his butt off; he was probably tired. Very hard worker, at many things, from movies to TV to charity work.
Smashed as always.
He was on the pain pills at this time. Percodon was a very popular drug then til it was realized how dangerously addictive it is. Dean had bad back from golfing. Jerry Lewis also was taking it.
I noticed that....you can tell early in the interview he kept moving in his chair trying to get comfortable...as somebody who has back issues I caught that right away
Golf doesn't give you a bad back. Jerry Lewis had a bad back because of a bad pratfall.
JOHNNY CARSON
23 DE OCTUBRE DE 1925
23 DE ENERO DE 2005
79 AÑOS
The drinking was a sham. He was a Great entertainer!
I always thought he struggled to breathe because of the smoking.
#KingOfCool
He always pretended to be somewhat detached. This time it seemed he wasn't pretending so much.
Smoking on air Not today
We live in a wimp Society
The drunk act gets old. And it's not tolerated today.he was to good for that shitck.
He pretended to be drunk
Maybe 1990, not 1980
Still less hammered than vodka nancy
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Dean jokes
he was not drunk its an act like pretending to drink alcohol on interviews it was apple juice.Just part of his schtick.
I can't believe people laughed over Dean Martin
Howdean ?
He is a shadow of himself in this interview. Its clear that the death of his son took the better part of him with him to the grave.
Dino Jr. died in 1987, this is from 1980 so your comment doesn't make any sense 🤦
@@vintagequeen__ I stand corrected then.
He did himself on that he mention. The Big Show it was like his old shows. He also still doing concerts.. He went over to England in 83 to do concerts, was honor by some group over there and to celebrate his birthday that year. He was still doing fine her. He was 63 years old here.
@@vintagequeen__ lol
But there was something terribly wrong with Dean by this time. Not booze. I followed Dean's career closely and never once did I hear anyone who actually knew Dean say that he drank to excess. But the slowness of speech was getting to be a very regular thing, including during serious interviews. Percodan? Perhaps. Or primary progressive aphasia, or something of the sort.
Why is Dean acting drunk?
It's his signature act. He started it in his night club performances following the style of Joe E. Lewis. Then everyone seemed to like it. So, he kept the act through out his life.
A lot of people ask the same question. When he broke off the partnership with Jerry Lewis he needed a reinvent himself. Before he became famous he used to open up for The Mills Brothers in the 40s and was kind of stiff and nervous up on stage. So Harry Mills suggested that he would light up a cigarette, and have a drink or two to come down your nerves before you go up on stage. So he kind of did that and it worked for him. And he was a type of person that if something worked, don't change it. And he said in interviews, I can't change it even if I wanted to because people expect that from me cuz now it's part of my image. In other words he was like another Foster Brooks. Though I will admit, it was getting old after a while.
Was he really drunk or pretending…I thought h said he had given it up years before
That snow tires joke is a very racist joke.
Carson stopped him just in time.
he is drinking but still great
YOU SURE ITS 1980 OR 1990
I thought so too but Johnny mentions the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. 1980.
@@davidpresta4549 oh cause Dean talks about Johnny quiting the show.
Yes the winter Olympics gave the clue 1980
It appears that Dean Martin was smashed.
Hopefully he quit drinking
Yes he was cool and all of that, but he looks, sounds and acts as if he had had a few... 'on the rocks'.
That was a part of his act. He might have had a coupe drinks, but most of it was acting.
He’s so smashed here it’s almost sad 😢 and bad toop
Hi, Dean did drink, he admitted that many times. But he didn’t drink when working. This was his schtick. Every entertainer back then had a gimmick, Lucille Ball was the bumbler, Jack Benny was the tight wad, Sinatra was the swinger, Jerry Lewis was the idiot etc.
Dean developed this character after he & Lewis split & a comedian named Joe E. Lewis, who did the same sort of drunk act retired. Dean did start drinking more heavily after his son was killed in 1987. If you pay attention to his quick wit during this clip you’ll know someone who’s drunk couldn’t do that. He always had a relaxed even lackadaisical way of speaking & that helped his drunk act a lot. Also, that’s his real hair. His dad also had thick hair.
@@joescalissi1 ok so I know and you want to show the world you known it too
Huh? I apologize if I misunderstood your original comment of “he’s so smashed” & “bad toop”. The truth is if he was drunk in this video he wouldn’t be able to ad lib as fast & as funny as he did.
@@joescalissi1 lolol
He also took a lot of Percodan during this time. And it never stopped. It is true, it is so sad to look at it. It destroyed itself.
Very very alcohoolic...