Comedy: Jackie Gleason and the Lost Art of Pantomime
- 1:06 AM — Apr 21 —
- Source: The Moderate Voice
For younger TMV viewers, here, from the 60s, is Jackie Gleason — the inspiration for Fred Flintstone — in one of his lesser known comedy incarnations, Rum Dumb the drunk: But lest you think Gleason was a comedian who did comedy without words, or was "only" the bombastic Ralph Kramden (which Hanna Barbera clearly used when it drew Fred Flintstone) he could also do very loud slapstick, too. Read More
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