SpockoI loved Paul Lynde on Hollywood Squares. I memorized some of his lines. Like "Paul how. Do you make a frog croak?"
"Stick his little head under water.!"
Here are some more, Lynde on Garbage, fables and sex education from the 70's. hilarious!
Lauren Weinstein@spocko They wrote the best stuff for him on that show.
@lauren I know. I watched a whole series of his jokes. What I didn't get as a kid was that Paul was gay, & most of the jokes were designed to take advantage of that. Watching them as an adult makes them funnier.
I also learned that lots of the supporting cast of Bewitched were gay.
I loved #ElizabethMontgomery growing up. I later found she had progressive politics & got on an anti-racism episode written by 26 African-American students from Jefferson High School in LA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_at_Heart
@spocko Well, Dick Sargent for sure was gay, since he came out publicly decades later. Paul Lynde is an interesting case, since he was one of the earliest mainstream performers to be essentially openly gay without actually saying it explicitly. The same could be said of Liberace -- though much of his fan base didn't have that view at the time. Far different than people like Tab Hunter or Rock Hudson who stayed closeted much longer. Lynde, by the way, from what I've been told by people who knew him, was not a pleasant fellow to deal with, apparently.
@spocko Of course these were all "open secrets" around Hollywood the entire time.