It's time to pay the bills.....
This morning at work, I greeted an arriving co-worked named Joseph with my
impersonation of Frankie Fontaine as Crazy Guggenheim. Crazy was a patron of
Joe the Bartender's establishment in a series of sketches on Jackie Gleason's
variety show back in the day.
"Uh - hiya, Joe!"
I should have known Joseph wouldn't get it - he came to this country in
1979. But I was amazed that even among the older co-workers, they just had no
clue who he was.
When I was in second grade, Tommy Kilroy, Larry McLaughlin, and I "toured"
the classes of St. Joseph's School with our presentation of a Joe The Bartender
sketch. I was Joe, Tommy was Crazy, and Larry was the previously unseen Mr.
Donahy. (In the TV sketches, he was the P.O.V. of the camera.)
I did a quick check of YouTube but this was all I could find for Crazy
Guggenheim.....
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