so true. there is a truth to the character of Mostel. He is himself and only ever himself in any part he plays, but is it truly him or the character of him. There is no real distinction. Zero is humble to its extreme or not and eccentric to its most minimum or not. He is better than most and still fewer than one in a googolplex. He is Zero. = which by definition is the epitome of genius. so it goes like this: the representation of numbers varied from tribe to tribe and every nation of people. What could be done to rectify the misunderstanding between peoples and improve trade? The Western Arabs came up with a numerical system based on angles. 1 = one angle, 2 originally looked like a 'Z' = two angles, and so on up to nine, but this is where the genius comes in... up to now no one had a way to represent nothing. The Arabs drew a circle = no angles, Zero! Genius!

Thank God for youtube so we can pretend we will live in this beautiful era.

Yea, while simultaneously not having to endure NAM! Just every other WAR😂

MAGOO you know what you remind me of? Every time I masturbate, out comes magoo.

@@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou your name makes your reply even funnier

You got that right!!!! I was so lucky to see Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof in 1977 right before he died. I witnessed absolute genuis!!!!!!

He is max😁

@@henrywhenryw812 definitely the greatest!

SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!! 🥰

The Front is also brilliant

I just saw "The Producers" on the big screen a couple of weeks ago.

God damn, zero is hilarious. Never heard of him before today

Vivid proof that fame is a fleeting thing. Zero was brilliant: wit, artist, performer...a force of nature. Watch the original version of "The Producers" with Gene Wilder. Your life will be richer for his contributions to it.

Marionettetc are you kidding? He was the first fiddler to fall off the roof. He set the precedent for all the rest of those tumbling tiles. And he's a distant cousin of mine!

you mean "uploading"...

Comic genius

@@martinhanley9524 anyone who could appear in public...wearing that hair....must have had no fear....but that hair doesnt make him a comic..let alone a genius

And what's wrong with that? He took up most of the stage anyway.

Comic genius as was Gene Wilder, Don Adams and the maestro Mel Brooks

I knew Dick Cavett was responsible. This is better than DNA evidence.

Very underrated film, which I love.

Dave Wray ahhhhh 😀 thanks for the film tip

That movie was just on tonight. I came here after watching it... Because of watching it!

I can imagine, I don’t know where he got the energy from

The original mullet!

@Texas Chainsaw Jesus ah i see...TRUMP is HITLER...very "original"...

Texas Chainsaw Jesus 😂🤣

@@veganvocalist4782 That sounds like a great name for a mediocre band.

Yes,and his work on the obstetrician sketch was fabulous !

Trump's comb-over actually seems quite stylish compared to Mostel.

@@sugarjoe50 Speaking of Trump, he would have been a rather better host here than little Dick--much better sense of humor and deeper Jewish cultural connections. Indeed, it was his humor and Jewish connections that permitted him to provide us with the most entertaining of Presidencies.

@@kreek22 Speaking of "little dicks", Donnie Dorko has got the teeny-tiniest of them all, which perfectly compliments his single-cell protozoa excuse for a brain. Too bad we went from one dangerously incompetent boob to another, but that's how it's always been here in this screwed-up country; land of deceit, home of the greed.

And Johnathan Winters

Gleason came to mind with me as well.

Gleason *did* have a comb over.

Does burn in hell count?

@@IPoopOnYouEveryLastOneOfYou Pray tell why?

Zero had perfection. Cavett none.

@@manofmanyinterests i think its called producing a show...where commercials pay for the production...maybe you think zero or any guest can just go on a tv show then or now and keep talking till they decide to walk off....to bad one of your many interests isnt intelligence

We all know you wanted to plant a big ol' wet kiss on his bottom.

...an example of Mostel's genius can be seen in the above brilliant performance of a monologue from Ulysses- ( about 56:30 to 58:20...)

Jack Black the heir apparent to tevye

Perhaps Mostel, a very clever man, ought to have considered *not* being an Stalinist traitor--but that's Jewish gratitude for you. He wasn't cheated out of anything at all. He cheated himself and his people and his nation.

@@kreek22 no

@@provideme1000 Perhaps Mostel, a very clever man, ought to have considered not being an Stalinist traitor--but that's Jewish gratitude for you. He wasn't cheated out of anything at all. He cheated himself and his people and his nation.

@@kreek22 "Mostel joined the United States Army in 1943 but was discharged because of an unspecified physical disability. For the rest of the Second World War Mostel entertained American troops overseas. Mostel held left-wing political views and when the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began an investigation into the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry it was not long before he was called to give evidence. Mostel denied he was a member of the Communist Party but he refused to provide information about the political opinions of his friends. Mostel was now blacklisted and this made it very difficult for him to work in the entertainment industry. Around 320 artists, including Larry Adler, Stella Adler, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Joseph Bromberg, Charlie Chaplin, Aaron Copland, Hanns Eisler, Edwin Rolfe, Carl Foreman, John Garfield, Howard Da Silva, Dashiell Hammett, E. Y. Harburg, Lillian Hellman, Burl Ives, Arthur Miller, Dorothy Parker, Philip Loeb, Joseph Losey, Anne Revere, Pete Seeger, Gale Sondergaard, Louis Untermeyer, Josh White, Clifford Odets, Michael Wilson, Paul Jarrico, Jeff Corey, John Randolph, Canada Lee, Orson Welles, Paul Green, Sidney Kingsley, Paul Robeson, Richard Wright and Abraham Polonsky, were also blacklisted. For the next few years Mostel found it difficult to find work in clubs and theatres and had to supplement his income by trying to sell his paintings. In 1958 a friend managed to get him the part of Leopold Bloom in the Off-Broadway production of Ulysses. He was a great success and won an Obie.

@@provideme1000 Lucky for him he chose to side with the communist mass murderers rather than the fascists--otherwise his blacklisting would never have ended. He was a traitor and a supporter of communism, mankind's worst ideology.

90loneeagle I almost fell for that, but luckily I landed on my face.

Z overcame the monstrous McCarthy blacklist performing Ulysses in Nighttown, off bway in 1958, he won an Obie award for Ulysses and that put him back in the spotlight, 6 years before Fiddler. Godot on TV in 61, it's on youtube, He won his first Tony for A Funny Thing... in 1962. P.S. he was unquestionably a great great talent, the best in my book, watching him from the audience, he could do no wrong, but he could be a major pain in the ass for SOME of the other actors working with him on stage. Unpleasant stories abound.

Whipped cream, then ashes. Hazards, then feathers. An eyeball in the mud, a serenade to the stars.

Zero actually was in fact blacklisted in the 50s.

@@sugarjoe50 No, sir, he was such a consummate communist that he was the reason the blacklist had to be invented--in the 40s.

I don't know if I can last that long. All the yucking it up is unbearable.