He did an episode of The Munsters that was hilarious. I think he played a plastic surgeon. The man was fantastic with perfect timing. Paul Lynde could have me still laughing hours after the TV show ended.

Hollywood Squares and his quick witted answers..... even though, as a kid I didn't understand most of them.

The voice of Tempelton in the original Charlotte's Webb

@@wendycrow4462 I completely forgot about that! Yes, Templeton (perfect voice for the rat, too).

I enjoyed his performance in bye bye birdie

it's like people finding out that Liberace was gay. Are you Tommy? Deaf, dumb and blind. Same when Elton John came out. Did people not see the cover to "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"? I was a kid and I knew and I lived in Podunk. Very sad that it makes a difference to so many "Ed Necks". Leave people the fuck alone.

Actually, he'd be 94, the same age as Queen Elizabeth II. They were both born in 1926.

Uncle Arthur was my favorite 🙂

you made your case perfectly. paul made my life happier every time .. every time i saw him and he made a joke and that smirk and those eyes... and his movements. pure paul. he was just himself. he suffered that sucked, but hey he did have some fame. he did dam good for all the mine fields he had to traverse.

In Paul's case, it wasn't always the joke itself that was funny. It was the way Paul delivered the punchline that was funny. Pure comic genius!!!

You’re dead on Brian. I believe Buddy’s issue was Paul success with pre-show info. They all had lead in info…many hit pop-ups and grounders, while Paul belted them out of the park.

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! 😂

It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics. What is the other? Paul Lynde: Tape measures.

Well said.

Indeed

so very true. Robin Williams was one of my favorite people and he was so sad in his life. Rest in Peace, dear Paul and Robin!

"tears of a clown"

True dat

@@alvinlee2968 "...when there's no one around..."

so true, the late Jan Hooks had terrible stage fright and hated fame, she craved privacy and being with her pets

Hilarious one liners

Yes, even as a kid I loved watching him on Hollywood Squares. I could tell he was gay, which I thought was kinda cute.

Too bad yhe show was a set-up. Bill Bixby was another actor who made the show...

@@doneestoner9945 I never guessed it-!!

I remember seeing reruns of this show on Game Show Network. You bet your buttons he made the show. He was most awesome!!!

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@Thomas Lee Howell Interestingly, I could quite easily have your comment removed as "hate speech," but I'm not going to. It's long been my position that people like you should be pitied, not censored.

David Murphy That was funny!

Strange 🤔

@@DYR Why is it strange? Paul was known as a miserable person in real life, plus he could have been drunk on the plane and he was a mean drunk.

I never got to see him in person...but I did come across Bill Daley in Hawaii. He gave me the nastiest look that my whole opinion of him changed. He was not the happy funny Roger Healy any more.

@@jamesrose1460 In both of these cases there was most likely something ELSE going on that was upsetting them. Something very distracting before this.

James Rose That’s surprising! I always read that Bill Daily was easily approachable.

I was too young to understand a lot of his jokes but I loved him, specially on Hollywood Squares.

But he was fun and a good friend to me

It's the story of so many ego maniacs with narcissistic tendency

@@tobincorsair4887 right. so he was fundamentally an empty and shallow actor.

@@1MinuteFlipDoc not really, did you watch the video?

Alcohol-ism

Very clever man 😆

Me too!!

I can't believe it! That's one of a scenes I most remember too! I think of it often actually still when my feet hurt! Hahaha! Wow.

I remember that!

I remember that. That was hilarious.

His laughter in and of itself would make me laugh.

@Joseph_66 best laugh ever-and he sounded like that in real life too

@@cathyrudolph2801 You must have been real young when you meet Paul, your still a good looking woman , I just Googled you

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That's Paul Lynde for you. He never failed to make me laugh.

cynterslave Lol. Thanks for the laugh!

That's my favorite one from Paul.

*"What do you say when someone falls overboard? Clumsy!*"

Paul's first episode of Bewitched was as a one time character. A clerk in a store or something, I don't remember right off hand, They had such a good time working with him that they created a recurring character for him...Uncle Arthur.

@@efandmk3382 Paul's first appearance on Bewitched was the driving instructor Harold Harold. He was hired to teach Samantha to drive. That was in the early Bewitched, when it was filmed in black and white. (Jan Griffiths).

My favorite Bewitched episodes always included Paul. I thoroughly enjoyed him even as a little kid.

That's funny and tragic at the same time.

SAD

My favorite: (as best I can remember) “Man overboard” is said when a man falls over. What is said if a woman falls off the ship? “Full steam ahead”.

What should your mother do if she comes home unexpectedly and catches you in bed with another boy?

@@frankpaya690 Another "boy" or another man? Assuming you are a man, yourself, and are in bed with an underage "boy" (a la Michael Jackson), she should call the police!

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A lot of comedians are sad at heart. Re Robin Williams and a lot of others.

@@johnkuipers7829 Yeah. It is so horribly sad.

Blake: Everyone remembers "Kids" from that musical (and I've taught the song in my Humor class), but still today, when I hear Paul Lynde (and his on screen family) singing the "Hymn [to Ed Sullivan] for a Sunday Evening," I crack up every time. He and Alice Ghostley were both in the film edition of _New Faces_ and they played male and female versions of the same sort of long-suffering character, much like Harry McAfee in BBB. Neither was ever able to shed the typecasting. She dealt with it much better, living to 84, and actually getting a role in _The Graduate_ . I was studying in Columbus when Lynde got into an altercation in or in front of a gay bar. I can't remember now if he was arrested or his bodyguards whisked him away before he got in trouble with the law, but we heard about it on campus and heard that he was definitely not a happy drunk. His long interview with Johnny Carson, in which he talks about his weight problem, and his appearance on _I've Got a Secret_ in which his secret is having lost 95 lbs, are really quite moving. He tells Carson he resisted doing talk shows because it was so hard for him to be himself in public. How sad that he suffered so much and caused others to suffer too. Were he 25 years old today, he might have turned out a much happier man and maybe had a wider ranging career. I wonder if he ever realized how much laughter he brought to viewers on every one of what apparently turned out to be 1,346 daytime and evening Hollywood Squares appearances, and how much better they felt after that half hour of silliness.

Yes, Indeed ☺️

Absolutely one of th best

Legendary comedian, Paul lydne

Amen! I am now 57.😞

@@toddsmith1617 Google says 75 is a good age to croak! So, you better get to living it up!!!

@Rex Trowbridge. See that ^^^^^^ comment!!!! 😁

So true! Time passes quicker than we realize. Pray to know Jesus as your savior while you can: For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16 God bless!😇🙏

David Simpson I’M NOT!! Everyone going crazy out there!! 😁😂 Running amok! Oh man, MISS KENNY ROGERS for sure!!

Moms are funny that way. Mine was, too.

lol....I was a young kid in the 70s and he cracked me up. My mom told me he was gay when I was a teenager. I had no clue. He just made me 😅

I love how "flamboyant" was the best they could come up - a term often intermingled with eccentric! They were of their era, a little bit of ignorance mixed with innocence. I bet they both had flamboyant hairdressers who they loved to completely confide in - and who they thought were straight too! lol

Dude his lines were written and rehearsed... yet you still think it was his wit? some peoples children...

@@jamesbarrick3403 Please forgive. I did not know that my comment would be so offensive. 🙄

@@markmcfrederick8932 nobody said your comment was offensive. But there's a clear distinction between written lines and rehearsal versus Whit

Stop it with your fake outrage.

I think he may have been on I Dream of Jeannie once or twice. I think he played an obnoxious TV director on one. I can imagine him calling Major Nelson,"Tony baby.."

@M S certainly know Cary Grant, Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott and many others were bi or gay. Never heard that about Spencer Tracy. Odd that he not only was married to a woman but maintained a very close relationship with Kate Hepburn all those years, in that case. Some mostly one sex but enjoy dabbling in the other pond on occasion.

Indeed a very funny guy! 🤣

Thank goodness hiding one's orientation is mostly no longer necessary.

In my teenage years I had a lot of friends who were gay, they were also alcoholics, and I understood why.

@@albeit1 it might be in certain families!

@@albeit1 It depends.

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"Oh my goodness!"

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Brilliant. Roger makes that show a cult masterpiece.

I think in his case he was depressed and insecure because his being gay would not have been accepted by middle America as it is today and he had to hide it from the public and his fans. Your career could be ruined if the public found out. Like could you imagine Rock Hudson coming out as gay at the height of his fame in the 50's and 60's? He was such a studly heartthrob women would have been in shock and disbelief had they known then that he was gay, and his career would have been over before it really started.

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20 yrs ago, I tried to enter acting, and I often saw many unhappy aspiring performers, I gave up after a yr., it's a very tough profession to survive in, the constant rejection and dealing with auditions can really tear you down

@@michaelsix9684 Thank you for sharing your story. It sounds like you had a demoralising time. I hope life is better for you now and you found other creative outlets

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God, his wit was so quick! Amazing!

Hard life? It seems fairly obvious that the only hardship he encountered after his breakthrough was his own narcissism. He was constantly in very well paid work and, more often than not, high as a kite. Of course I'm sorry the guy was unhappy but more sorry he was unable to see that his unhappiness (at least about his work) was completely ridiculous.

@@blackmore4 stfu

@@blackmore4 and this is why people are closed off and lonely! No understanding or compassion!

it happens to so many performers, never envy them

@@blackmore4 I agree, most performers have unfullfilled goals or expectations, when these don't get achieved, they can get ugly or self-destructive, even suicidal

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@M S Veal is politically incorrect.

@@gregingram4996 -- and delicious.

@@schmeckelgruben776 Red meat causes colon cancer. Glad I went vegan (or at least non-carnivore) many moons ago!

OMG! That is sooooo Paul!

So true.

I don't think. He would of been funny.

He would've been the Star he wanted to be. I'm sure he'll come back again, I just hope it's easier for him next time. I always liked him and would talk just like him, making everyone crack up. His voice was one of a kind !

impassable Yep! & He would’ve been accepted.

Part of his ongoing success was the fact that his home was within walking distance of the TV studios he worked at. Producers in a casting pinch could simply call him in if they were short an actor. To be a celeb now, unfortunately, would mean him sacrificing his soul and pledging himself to darkness in order to have the opportunities of a career. You'd see pictures of him steepling his hands together to make a triangle, or covering one eye to reference the All-Seeing Eye. Its gatekeepers would expect him to participate fully in their degrading power ceremonies, and his backing out, at any point, would lead directly to his celebrity obituary. Paul Lynde may have felt trapped, but his situation could well be a lot worse now.

Thanks for tuning-in 😎

As to why there's a photo of Jean-Paul Belmondo at 4:27, well, who the heck knows.

Agreed

Templeton!

This was what i remember about him was playing templeton.

Happy... and that song "sky rockets in flight" was about fire works... dont tell me otherwise!

I was surprised to hear he was gay too. Watching him now, I can see it but back then we had no clue. He was a comedic genius

Same here.

@@philtripe ???

Joanne O Beirne Neither did I.

The 70s were much more accepting. Elton John and Freddie Mercury were at their peak, even in rock circles. No one cares. David Bowie came out as bi, and again, people didn’t care. Maybe figures in fashion also were at their peak.

@ti portangeles I didn't know that! Wow!

Look up Frankie Howerd & Larry Grayson in the U.K. Both "camp" gay comedians who were big telivision stars from the `50`s until the `80`s.The same kind of humour as Paul Lynde. Both had troubled lives. Frankie was treated for depression at one point. Larry felt guilty about his sexuality. There is rather a good T.V. drama about Frankie`s life called "Rather You Than Me."

Hollywood was probably the easiest and most accepting atmosphere to be gay. Plenty of straight frustrated actors have drunk and drugged themselves to death.

That's what happened to Natalie Woods. She got mad because of RJ and Walken. Probably threatened to tell everyone and that was a big no no at that time. Robert was known as a ladies-man, from It Takes A Thief, thru Switch then Hart to Hart. Natalie telling the World she caught him in bed with another Man would have sunk both their careers and might've hurt her reputation as well. I find rather painful that these Men had to hide who they were and how they felt. Nowadays it wouldn't matter. What a shame that it was like that.

He used to put a picture frame around his ass and call it the center square. lol

Sorry, I meant "tone" that he used.

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Ben Hur homosexual subtext?

Yes. The character that was Ben Hur’s best friend when they were young &the one he ended up racing in the chariot race. I think the part was played by Hurd Hatfield. Take another look at the film. See what you think.

@chris wilber calm down. It has been so many years since I have seen Ben Hur, a rather mediocre movie, that I can’t say who is right, but your outrage is disproportionate to the statement. Not unlike Carmela Soprano’s reaction when told that the famous novel “Billy Budd” had a clear homosexual subtext, which it certainly does.

@chris wilber the captain who was so cruel to Billy had a repressed yearning for him, and other crew members are apparently homosexual. This certainly wasn’t unknown for sailors with long periods of no access to females, just as occurs in prison. Just look up “Billy Budd homosexual” and a number of articles appear delineating the subtext. Good luck.

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That’s very special

Thanks Janice!

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I surely hope he knows now how loved he was by so many, and how much his terrific wit means to so many until this day.

Hi Bubbles

So was the Scoutmaster who was featured in the Simpsons episode about the Radioactive Man movie.

I’m surprised this video didn’t refer to that.

saltjunkie77 good point.

Awesome! Thank you!

A Paul Lynde reply to Samantha: I really crack you up don't I Sammie!

Indeed

Agreed

he was demon possessed. His demons lived through that child of Lucifer. He is burning in hell today unless he repented before he died and called on Jesus Christ to save his worthless life.

You sound nuts 🥜

@@spod11 Who gave you the authority to say who is going to hell?People like you will depart from the presence of Christ long before he will. It is you who needs to repent.

@@tyxikosgatopoulos3094 I say it's a photo finish which of you is crazier.

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Must be a guys thing.

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That is both funny and a sad reflection on the time in which he said that.

That's good to know! Thank you.

I'd heard he was devoted to his chosen family. He reminds me of a lot of gay men I know, like myself. We can be loyal to a fault to those who mean something to us, but always having to fend off people who would betray us and our 'filthy little secret everyone knows'. If he was ambitious he was no different than any other star who ever made it. He's another victim of show buisiness, one of the hardest and most rapaciously severe of all the arts. I don't know of one person that comes through it with a whole skin.

Because they're both gay I'd say. Look Todd Chrisley add as many sticking out of him as he's had stuck in him he'd look like a goddamn porcupine is all I'm saying

Thank you for sharing that. Wishing you the best.

thanks for sharing, Paul had a generous kind side most of us never knew about

Yes

Doctor: (Grabs Herman's hairy hand), Oh, I see you brought your little doggie."