Shame. A funny, funny man, and a capable dramatic actor as well.
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Shame. A funny, funny man, and a capable dramatic actor as well.
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That's too bad to hear. He was always one my favorite all-around entertainers.
On more than one occasion, he made laugh until I had trouble breathing.
I'll always remember him demolishing the gas station in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world.
I remember his appearing as a summer replacement show, and my family laughing and laughing in front of the TV set, he was so damn funny, especially his ad libs...
Maudie Frickett was a great one...
and though I later learned it wasn't him, I incorrectly thought that he was the one who had talked about going to the circus and seeing two elephants get their trunks stuck together, sucking after the same peanut. It turns out it was Tim Conway, who was ad libbing, live before an audience in the middle of a Mama's family schedule on the Carol Burnett show. When they started selling the DVD collect of her show, the cast would tell of that particular sketch and how he would bust them all up by playing it straight as written in the rehearsals, but wildly deviate in the taping, causing them all to laugh along with the audience, as they attempted to recover.
Anyway, I always remembered Jonathan Winters as the same sort of brilliant ad-lib commedian with characters and behaviors and noises to just bust you up. He was a real stellar talent, in the order of the best, Tim Conway, Robin Williams and Steve Martin.
I've got MAD, MAD WORLD sitting out here, been meaning to watch it again for awhile now.
For something really sick, also check out THE LOVED ONE, a deeply dark, warped satire on the cemetery business. (It was the inspiration for the DOCTOR WHO story, REVELATION OF THE DALEKS.)
I'm pretty sure that I've seen "The Loved One", late at night on the CBS late move, and found it to be a darkly comedic movie. I think I really enjoyed it. (I get it confused with "The Wrong Box".)
I have some friends in Utah, who think It's a Mad, Mad World is the funniest movie ever made. I recall seeing it appear on the NBC Monday night movie or something, and found it to be nothing but slapstick, unending slapstick, and the predecessor to the Cannonball Run type of movies. It got tiresome after a while, if you ask me, but Winters always entertains, no matter what he's doing.
Doesn't he totally demolish a desert gas station with his own bare hands in this one?
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