An early Woody Allen performance on the Jack Paar Show. Airdate: Dec 14, 1962 Available through Time-Life video
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@peterschmitz644611 ай бұрын
Woody is a Genius of Comedy - Annie Hall is still one of the funniest Movies ever made.
@Hs3u3912 жыл бұрын
Haven't caught these bits before. Thanks for posting. What a great host Jack Paar was.
@paulaharrisbaca48514 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen was better, I think.
@WarrenPeace007 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Still funny today which says a lot. Funnier even than many of today’s so called comedians
@theonetruerobb485211 ай бұрын
Through all the controversy, all his bad decisions, all the rumors, people forget that this was one of the 20th Century's best and funniest comedians, an engaging author, a brilliant filmmaker, a quietly excellent Jazz musician. No, his flaws can't be overlooked, nor excused. Can you separate the art from the behavior of the artist? Can you listen to a Wagner piece, dazzled by its genius without being repulsed by Wagner's vile anti-semitism? Can you laugh at a Cosby routine, or a Naked Gun scene featuring OJ, without a care for the victims of these men who turned out to be sexual predators and, in Simpson's case, a murderer? This is stuff that keeps me awake at night....
@robkunkel88332 жыл бұрын
Woody’s stand up. This is a classic.
@charleswinokoor60235 жыл бұрын
Allen was a great standup comic. I’ve got the double LP and CD. “The police showed up at the last minute and took his side, which I thought was in extreme poor taste.” funny line.
@davidmende443811 ай бұрын
'Police took thug's side.' It's funny because it's true.
@CalumnMcAulay4 жыл бұрын
Oh how the comedy has changed since then!
@timothyrogers36733 жыл бұрын
I'm reading woodys latest book apropos about nothing. a great read. 😂😂
@rolfh Жыл бұрын
Recommended reading: Woody Allen’s autobiography “Apropos of Nothing” His story its all there.
@sekos992 жыл бұрын
The humor here is more in the delivery and all the fidgeting than the actual material.
@NxDoyle4 жыл бұрын
He was well on his way by this point, of course, or this spot wouldn't exist. But the next few years saw Woody become a much more assured, economical comedian.
@leonardshevlin72602 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine what being bumped is like? I remember tuning in to David Letterman to see my young friend Alison Krauss and she was bumped.
@michaell.johnson32072 жыл бұрын
Might you be a relative of the late Thomas Leonard Shevlin?
@straycatttt276611 ай бұрын
Twenty years ago, I was invited to be a guest on a talk radio program. The host then bumped me a day before my scheduled appearance in favor of a local politician. The host called me to reschedule. I declined. He was stunned. He offered to pre-record it with me but I still declined.
@michaell.johnson32072 жыл бұрын
"...I want him to be bigger than I was!" Wish granted, Mr. Paar.
@gostrum111 ай бұрын
So you’re saying he was below paar in this performance ?
@richardbrowning9953 Жыл бұрын
Woody Allen is Genius 😂
@bashbrannigan4 жыл бұрын
This is a very early Woody Allen performance. Apparently, because of his shyness in the early days he would often run off the stage as soon as he finished.
@robkunkel88332 жыл бұрын
Watching him increase in speed as he performed makes that thought very likely.
@martm2165 жыл бұрын
This is very early Woody! Thanks for uploading.
@RasMajnouni5 жыл бұрын
I've viewed these acts a few years later. He takes his time. Here he mistakenly crammed too many great jokes in a time race.
@peterschmitz644611 ай бұрын
You should be smart, to follow him .
@RasMajnouni11 ай бұрын
@@peterschmitz6446 Follow him where/in what? To be a Hollyweird Director? To be a habitual womanizer? To wear glasses? To speak English? To be famous? To marry a woman 40 years younger than I? To be Jewish? I am Jewish, wear glasses but it stops there...and I tell jokes but in other languages than his!
@livelovenow88623 жыл бұрын
He is soooooo funny!
@ktkat194910 жыл бұрын
Woody Allen was a very popular stand up comedian. I have a double LP (do you know what those are) of his nightclub routines. His manager said they always had to have someone go with him to the night clubs to push him on stage because he was so terrified. They also held the bucket as he spent the time before his spot vomiting he was so frightened. Fine on stage but terrified to get there.
@lemorab1 Жыл бұрын
Yes, I know what a double LP was! I had a bunch of them. I was also a member of the Columbia Record Club. I did manage to resign from it.
@davecruz9962 Жыл бұрын
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@davecruz9962 Жыл бұрын
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@gilgamess12 жыл бұрын
By the time he recorded most of this two years later, he spoke slower and you could tell he knew where the laughs were. Amazing footage.
@redmed103 жыл бұрын
It's so well written though. His use of language is really unsurpassed. Such phrases as "struck a tremendous shot across the frontal lobe" or "mollified by shiny objects". And then he can be very economic with his words as well like "we gave". He is rushing through on this occasion which is partly nervousness and partly not having enough confidence in his material at the time. Later performances shows when he is starting to enjoy himself. Good job, because there was a time when he was thinking of giving up. But then it was suggested that he give it his best shot for 11 months and if he didn't feel he was getting better he could give up. This prospect seemed to work for him. The pressure was off I guess.
@carlodavis435411 жыл бұрын
You're right. Most people don't know who Allen Funt is
@crbrearley12 жыл бұрын
It really is amazing to see how much he developed. He was clearly going way too fast. Just amazing video.
@scribe5705 жыл бұрын
Yes, he rolled over several punch lines that would have gotten laughs if he had paused.
@davereynolds74722 жыл бұрын
actually he wasn't going fast ENOUGH (Woody) LOL
@michaelweinstein30564 жыл бұрын
Towering comedic genius
@MeMe-td1ye3 жыл бұрын
He's 5'3"
@michaelpuglisi16475 жыл бұрын
Loved it
@MW-eg4gu3 жыл бұрын
No, no. These comments are wrong. I'm 72 years old. I remember. Being nervous in front of the audience was part of the act. Maybe he really was nervous, but it was part of the act.
@asmodeus0454 Жыл бұрын
Too many people in this day and age wouldn't even know what _mollify_ means the standards of English education in the English-speaking world have eroded so much since 1962.
@lemorab1 Жыл бұрын
"... a difficult cretinous type who took karate...."
@jaygold992312 жыл бұрын
this is priceless!
@stevenyourke79012 жыл бұрын
Comic genius!
@Civilizashum6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant.
@SteveFBS5 жыл бұрын
That is a very funny man.
@jackbickel465510 ай бұрын
So great at making movies but we forget what a super stand up comic he is.
@amv7m3 жыл бұрын
So authentically funny. A great.
@davereynolds74722 жыл бұрын
Woody slaughtering.
@danfriend95674 жыл бұрын
Woody Age 27
@ligayabarlow50774 жыл бұрын
Pure dada
@kneeman665 жыл бұрын
Columbia record club....i stocked my entire collection and never paid more than the one penny i would paste on the postcard. It was like being on record welfare.
@ukkfayooyay2 жыл бұрын
I met Woody Allen on a street in Manhattan around 2005. Before he could react, my wife grabbed him and I took a photo. It’s hilarious because he looks so awkward and flustered as if someone just gave him a surprise wedgie. True story !
@mattbennett8686 Жыл бұрын
That's verging on assault.
@steveconn3 жыл бұрын
Madison and 77th? Rent must have been peanuts then for an up-and- coming comic.
@GeorgeCrosley2 жыл бұрын
He'd already been doing TV writing for years.
@ingvarhallstrom230611 ай бұрын
He was the best paid "gag man" on Madison Avenue even before he made it on his own.
@brucegilbert724311 ай бұрын
No, but they were accepting macadamias.
@bunzl6111 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@samorocks9612 жыл бұрын
you can see him looking at his hand for notes
@kneeman665 жыл бұрын
Where would any comedian get 6 minutes these days?
@dmiller100012 жыл бұрын
Hair? Woody or Jack? Paar wore a wig. Woody? Maybe he has a few plugs now on top, maybe more. Woody was nervous - basically threw out the material - needed better timing, which he got later.
@arricammarques19552 жыл бұрын
Did NBC release Jack Parr DVDs?
@AminorRed11 жыл бұрын
Why would you feel the need to be so caustic to someone else whom you've judged to be less intelligent? You can disagree with someone without being verbally abusive. I mean, I feel misanthropic all the time--but I try to restrain myself. Were you having a bad day or what?
@ligayabarlow50774 жыл бұрын
(?)
@GnarlsGnarlington2 жыл бұрын
He does a great job of sucking you into his ramblings.
@maxlinder526211 ай бұрын
Routine is so .Fast..,!!!
@Braglemaster1237 жыл бұрын
Too funny
@elijahmills17978 жыл бұрын
Wassup, You've Outdone Yourself. grate hop What's happening..
@SmelOdies3 жыл бұрын
It just occurs to me that 1962 Woody also would have been way too old for Mariel Hemingway in Manhattan.
@thomasmaykАй бұрын
Not all this material was exactly boffo. But Woody's frenetic style of delivery was brilliantly funny. Jack Paar, as always, was embarrassing.
@tyroniousyrownshoolacez23473 жыл бұрын
Ouch.
@Carrots4311 жыл бұрын
Todays audience's would not get his humor because of the dumbing down of American.
@hanskung3278 Жыл бұрын
Really?
@peterschmitz644611 ай бұрын
I get it - so I think a lot of Others get it too - he is a Legend.
@facilitiesmaintenance11 ай бұрын
I'm a member of today's audience, I've been dumbed down, and I get it and appreciate him.
@jessewolf764911 ай бұрын
Yes
@jessewolf764911 ай бұрын
@@facilitiesmaintenancethen you’re very unusual
@christopherreed2694 Жыл бұрын
You wana do comedy 🤣 watch his timing its why Jack Frickn Parr gave him the monolog time he's a brilliant man
@poetcomic111 жыл бұрын
Just the cue word for the next bit. I've done that.
@voiceguy36352 жыл бұрын
Jack Paar was quick and witty--i.e.quickwitted.
@joeguzman35584 жыл бұрын
How old is this guy???? He gos back to black and white TV ???
@paultheaudaciousbradford67724 жыл бұрын
Joe Guzman Twenty five
@MPresheva4 жыл бұрын
Older than TV
@ThomasLeo10 жыл бұрын
Dumbing down of America? When I looked up Allen Funt I lol'ed, the only thing that will go over peoples heads today are references to people who probably died before I was born.
@bcmteacher2 жыл бұрын
Candid Camera? Smile! Not a big novelty anymore in this day and age with security and servaailence camera s everywhere.
@frusciante31911 жыл бұрын
how about fluoride in the water bud? plus I'm sure he/she meant the dumbing down of comedy too
@felixcat43463 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure Joan Rivers and Woody were interchangeable at that time.
@stevefowler59702 жыл бұрын
except Joan was never funny
@zacklove37942 жыл бұрын
@@stevefowler5970 I thought she was funny in her earlly days, and clever and sincere. However, her humor degenerated and became simply rude and crude in her last years. Woody Allen may have had personal issues, but his humor remained intelligent and clever.
@clavdioo13 жыл бұрын
so he really used to have hair
@paulconway384 Жыл бұрын
He still has reasonable hair at 87 😂
@jdavis665011 ай бұрын
Neurosis is a very persistent thing.
@AlanStransman3 жыл бұрын
I'm sure that the majority of people witnessing this early performance thought, this guy's going nowhere.....
@PaulWilliams6610 ай бұрын
I prefer his later not so funny stuff.
@johnodonoghue65110 ай бұрын
laugh track
@PacoOtis2 жыл бұрын
Uhmm? Best of luck!
@Steve-Richter11 ай бұрын
What was supposed to be funny about the man who was beaten by robbers and now can’t connect the dots?
@HazeMotes10 жыл бұрын
His tie keeps getting in front of his jacket and it's pissing me off. I must have OCD.
@recessaa563210 жыл бұрын
and i hate when comedians scratch their nose
@Braglemaster1237 жыл бұрын
Haze Motes You need medication.
@avimukta111 жыл бұрын
don't get too self righteous mate LOOK at your self first I
@Raildawwwg4 жыл бұрын
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@Brian-uy2tj11 ай бұрын
Definitely dated and not a good representation of his work. His early movies like; Bananas, Take the money and run, Sleeper, were excellent
@shirleyezell6993 Жыл бұрын
In
@avimukta111 жыл бұрын
You think that was funny alienhuman ?
@frusciante31911 жыл бұрын
lol rising in education. says who? the government who doesn't want us smart
@janbonsema588811 ай бұрын
not very good here
@zeldasmith61542 жыл бұрын
He's not funny. Reality comedy is enduring. I would love to hear stand-up from the Pilgrims or the Neanthertal era.
@BlondieSuperdog2 жыл бұрын
Why his this shit being recycled after years where it belongs in the trash?
@haroldsteinblatt25672 жыл бұрын
That’s an opinion about someone who at the pinnacle of his career was the best comedy filmmaker of his time, had jokes published in New York newspapers when he was in high school and at 20 was working with Mel Brooks and Larry Gilbert (the man behind M*A*S*H) on the Sid Caesar show. But every opinion is valid.
@jeffclement24682 жыл бұрын
@@haroldsteinblatt2567 Thank you...Jeez, some people 🙄
@AlleyCracker1 Жыл бұрын
If there was a Mt. Rushmore of great humorists Woody Allen would make the cut. He created more comedy than any other comedian of the 20th century.