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

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.

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.

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 .

No sense of humour, obviously.

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...

He's playing a part

It’s a sketch

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He pretended to be drunk

Carson stopped him just in time.

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

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.

That was a part of his act. He might have had a coupe drinks, but most of it was acting.

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.