Woody Allen on The Jack Paar Show (re-sync)

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13 жыл бұрын

An early Woody Allen performance on the Jack Paar Show.
Airdate: Dec 14, 1962
Available through Time-Life video

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@peterschmitz6446 10 ай бұрын

Woody is a Genius of Comedy - Annie Hall is still one of the funniest Movies ever made.

@WarrenPeace007 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Still funny today which says a lot. Funnier even than many of today’s so called comedians

@Hs3u39 12 жыл бұрын

Haven't caught these bits before. Thanks for posting. What a great host Jack Paar was.

@paulaharrisbaca4851 4 жыл бұрын

Steve Allen was better, I think.

@timothyrogers3673 3 жыл бұрын

I'm reading woodys latest book apropos about nothing. a great read. 😂😂

@robkunkel8833 2 жыл бұрын

Woody’s stand up. This is a classic.

@charleswinokoor6023 5 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.

@davidmende4438 10 ай бұрын

'Police took thug's side.' It's funny because it's true.

@CalumnMcAulay 4 жыл бұрын

Oh how the comedy has changed since then!

@theonetruerobb4852 10 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....

@sekos99 2 жыл бұрын

The humor here is more in the delivery and all the fidgeting than the actual material.

@richardbrowning9953 Жыл бұрын

Woody Allen is Genius 😂

@leonardshevlin7260 2 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.johnson3207 2 жыл бұрын

Might you be a relative of the late Thomas Leonard Shevlin?

@straycatttt2766 10 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.

@rolfh Жыл бұрын

Recommended reading: Woody Allen’s autobiography “Apropos of Nothing” His story its all there.

@NxDoyle 4 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.

@michaell.johnson3207 2 жыл бұрын

"...I want him to be bigger than I was!" Wish granted, Mr. Paar.

@gostrum1 10 ай бұрын

So you’re saying he was below paar in this performance ?

@RasMajnouni 5 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.

@peterschmitz6446 10 ай бұрын

You should be smart, to follow him .

@RasMajnouni 10 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!

@livelovenow8862 3 жыл бұрын

He is soooooo funny!

@bashbrannigan 3 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.

@robkunkel8833 2 жыл бұрын

Watching him increase in speed as he performed makes that thought very likely.

@michaelpuglisi1647 5 жыл бұрын

Loved it

@martm216 5 жыл бұрын

This is very early Woody! Thanks for uploading.

@Civilizashum 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant.

@carlodavis4354 10 жыл бұрын

You're right. Most people don't know who Allen Funt is

@SteveFBS 5 жыл бұрын

That is a very funny man.

@ktkat1949 10 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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@jaygold9923 12 жыл бұрын

this is priceless!

@MW-eg4gu 3 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.

@michaelweinstein3056 4 жыл бұрын

Towering comedic genius

@MeMe-td1ye 3 жыл бұрын

He's 5'3"

@crbrearley 12 жыл бұрын

It really is amazing to see how much he developed. He was clearly going way too fast. Just amazing video.

@scribe570 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, he rolled over several punch lines that would have gotten laughs if he had paused.

@davereynolds7472 2 жыл бұрын

actually he wasn't going fast ENOUGH (Woody) LOL

@stevenyourke7901 2 жыл бұрын

Comic genius!

@jackbickel4655 10 ай бұрын

So great at making movies but we forget what a super stand up comic he is.

@gilgamess 12 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.

@redmed10 3 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.

@lemorab1 Жыл бұрын

"... a difficult cretinous type who took karate...."

@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.

@amv7m 3 жыл бұрын

So authentically funny. A great.

@davereynolds7472 2 жыл бұрын

Woody slaughtering.

@ligayabarlow5077 4 жыл бұрын

Pure dada

@bunzl61 11 жыл бұрын

I agree!

@danfriend9567 4 жыл бұрын

Woody Age 27

@samorocks96 11 жыл бұрын

you can see him looking at his hand for notes

@kneeman66 5 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.

@elijahmills1797 8 жыл бұрын

Wassup, You've Outdone Yourself. grate hop What's happening..

@steveconn 3 жыл бұрын

Madison and 77th? Rent must have been peanuts then for an up-and- coming comic.

@GeorgeCrosley 2 жыл бұрын

He'd already been doing TV writing for years.

@ingvarhallstrom2306 10 ай бұрын

He was the best paid "gag man" on Madison Avenue even before he made it on his own.

@brucegilbert7243 10 ай бұрын

No, but they were accepting macadamias.

@Braglemaster123 7 жыл бұрын

Too funny

@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347 3 жыл бұрын

Ouch.

@poetcomic1 11 жыл бұрын

Just the cue word for the next bit. I've done that.

@GnarlsGnarlington 2 жыл бұрын

He does a great job of sucking you into his ramblings.

@kneeman66 5 жыл бұрын

Where would any comedian get 6 minutes these days?

@arricammarques1955 2 жыл бұрын

Did NBC release Jack Parr DVDs?

@SmelOdies 3 жыл бұрын

It just occurs to me that 1962 Woody also would have been way too old for Mariel Hemingway in Manhattan.

@dmiller1000 12 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.

@voiceguy3635 2 жыл бұрын

Jack Paar was quick and witty--i.e.quickwitted.

@maxlinder5262 10 ай бұрын

Routine is so .Fast..,!!!

@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

@frusciante319 10 жыл бұрын

how about fluoride in the water bud? plus I'm sure he/she meant the dumbing down of comedy too

@joeguzman3558 4 жыл бұрын

How old is this guy???? He gos back to black and white TV ???

@paultheaudaciousbradford6772 4 жыл бұрын

Joe Guzman Twenty five

@MPresheva 4 жыл бұрын

Older than TV

@felixcat4346 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure Joan Rivers and Woody were interchangeable at that time.

@stevefowler5970 2 жыл бұрын

except Joan was never funny

@zacklove3794 2 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.

@clavdioo 13 жыл бұрын

so he really used to have hair

@paulconway384 11 ай бұрын

He still has reasonable hair at 87 😂

@thomasmayk 22 күн бұрын

Not all this material was exactly boffo. But Woody's frenetic style of delivery was brilliantly funny. Jack Paar, as always, was embarrassing.

@ukkfayooyay 2 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.

@ThomasLeo 10 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.

@bcmteacher 2 жыл бұрын

Candid Camera? Smile! Not a big novelty anymore in this day and age with security and servaailence camera s everywhere.

@AminorRed 11 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?

@ligayabarlow5077 4 жыл бұрын

(?)

@johnodonoghue651 9 ай бұрын

laugh track

@jdavis6650 10 ай бұрын

Neurosis is a very persistent thing.

@JohnG1989 Жыл бұрын

LMAO

@PaulWilliams66 10 ай бұрын

I prefer his later not so funny stuff.

@AlanStransman 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure that the majority of people witnessing this early performance thought, this guy's going nowhere.....

@PacoOtis 2 жыл бұрын

Uhmm? Best of luck!

@avimukta1 11 жыл бұрын

don't get too self righteous mate LOOK at your self first I

@Raildawwwg 4 жыл бұрын

@shirleyezell6993 Жыл бұрын

@frusciante319 10 жыл бұрын

lol rising in education. says who? the government who doesn't want us smart

@avimukta1 11 жыл бұрын

You think that was funny alienhuman ?

@Carrots43 11 жыл бұрын

Todays audience's would not get his humor because of the dumbing down of American.

@hanskung3278 Жыл бұрын

Really?

@peterschmitz6446 10 ай бұрын

I get it - so I think a lot of Others get it too - he is a Legend.

@facilitiesmaintenance 10 ай бұрын

I'm a member of today's audience, I've been dumbed down, and I get it and appreciate him.

@jessewolf7649 10 ай бұрын

Yes

@jessewolf7649 10 ай бұрын

@@facilitiesmaintenancethen you’re very unusual

@Steve-Richter 10 ай бұрын

What was supposed to be funny about the man who was beaten by robbers and now can’t connect the dots?

@HazeMotes 10 жыл бұрын

His tie keeps getting in front of his jacket and it's pissing me off. I must have OCD.

@recessaa5632 10 жыл бұрын

and i hate when comedians scratch their nose

@Braglemaster123 7 жыл бұрын

Haze Motes You need medication.

@janbonsema5888 10 ай бұрын

not very good here

@Brian-uy2tj 10 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

@zeldasmith6154 2 жыл бұрын

He's not funny. Reality comedy is enduring. I would love to hear stand-up from the Pilgrims or the Neanthertal era.

@BlondieSuperdog 2 жыл бұрын

Why his this shit being recycled after years where it belongs in the trash?

@haroldsteinblatt2567 2 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.

@jeffclement2468 2 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.