TVXOHOF, APRIL 2025 - JIMINY GLICK

April is the month for inducting the Fools of Toobworld into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.  Usually this means the more humorous characters, but actual fools do make it into the Hall as well.  That’s why a certain Fool is an April member and not in the November wing for Newsmakers.  But then, he was inducted nearly a decade before becoming a standard Newsmaker Crossover, back when he was just a Citizen Fool.

So here we are, beginning the 26th year of the TVXOHOF, and I think we have a great candidate for this month’s candidate….

JIMINY GLICK

From Wikipedia:
Jiminy Glick is a fictional character created and portrayed by Martin Short in the TV series ‘Primetime Glick’ (2001–2003), the subsequent 2004 film “Jiminy Glick in Lalawood”, and Short's Broadway show “Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me.” He began as a recurring character on ‘The Martin Short Show.’

Glick is the main character in the feature film “Jiminy Glick in Lalawood.”

In “Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me”, Glick interviews (through complete improvisation) an audience volunteer tasked to become the show's "new star" after Martin Short is struck by lightning (a ploy to allow Short enough time to don the Jiminy Glick make-up).

O’Bservation:
Those appearances qualify Glick as a Multiversal.

Here is Glick’s biography from Wikipedia:
Born Malcolm Glickman on March 12, 1948, in Akron, Ohio (though he has claimed to have been born in Omaha, Nebraska and Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Jiminy Glick was "the middle child of 10 children" of Omar and Isabella Glickman.

Glick, who describes himself as a Tibetan-American, was often a loner and was regularly made fun of for his obesity at an early age. He was also very sickly until he was 13, when doctors discovered that he had a small Tonka truck stuck in his duodenum. As a child, while riding his bike and listening to the song "Michael Row the Boat Ashore", he lost his virginity when he fell on the "boy bar", He has said he never liked the name Malcolm and was given the nickname "Jiminy" as crickets laid eggs in his anus. But Glick also told Larry David that Jiminy is his real name, given to him because his parents "were from the Baháʼí Faith". In an interview with Ben Stiller, he asserted that he and his wife were Buddhists.

After graduating from Gale Gordon High School, and continuing on to DeVry Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin, his life changed forever when the play “Forty Carats”, starring Lana Turner, came to town. He was asked to join the show and traveled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he played "Onlooker Number Two", which he said was "like a dream!" After his short stage acting career and a performance as the leper in the film “Papillon”, Glick became Charles Bronson's personal assistant for five years during the 1970s. He had planned on working for Robert Vaughn, but according to Glick, he "didn't pay".

Bronson was very cruel to Glick and at one point threw him off his boat, mistaking him for Sebastian Cabot. Glick was picked up in a boat by George Maharis, of the TV show ‘Route 66’, and his cousin, Leon Maharis. Leon asked Glick if he wanted to work with him at Chasen's in Beverly Hills, California, as a busboy. Glick eagerly accepted the offer. There he ran into numerous Hollywood celebrities, such as Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Britney Spears, James Dean, and Charlton Heston.

Then, one day, while catering a party at Roddy McDowall's house, George Schlatter from ‘Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In’ offered Glick a pilot episode deal for a daytime talk show. Glick accepted and started at the Beverly Garland Motel (as opposed to the Beverly-Garland Hotel). And, Glick has said, "That’s how it all started." The daytime talk show was canceled when Beverly Garland herself came downstairs and, lacking sleep and thoroughly intoxicated, shouted to Glick and his crew to "get the hell out!" Later in his career, Glick moved to prime time.

In 1974, Glick worked as Telly Savalas's personal assistant. Savalas was mean, so Glick embezzled $85,000 from him. He was caught on his way to Ecuador and served a four-month hard labor sentence in Mississippi.

Glick is married to a heavily medicated, alcoholic Southern woman named Dixie. Together they have "four wonderfully strapping young boys": Morgan, Mason, Matthew, and Modine (named for actors Morgan Mason and Matthew Modine).

Morgan and Mason are teenaged twins and Matthew and Modine are 10-year-old twins; they were actually triplets but he sent away the third one because "two was so much already." The Glick family resides in Tarzana, California.

Dennis Miller has described Glick's life as "one big CliffsNote missing a page."

These are the shows which qualified Glick for membership:

THE MARTIN SHORT SHOW

PRIMETIME GLICK

MADtv

HOLLYWOOD SQUARES

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
TOM BRADY, HOST (April 16, 2005)

MAYA & MARTY
Glick appears in Maya & Marty interviewing celebrities such as Larry David, Kevin Hart, Jerry Seinfeld and Ricky Gervais.

THE TONIGHT SHOW starring JIMMY FALLON (April 28, 2017)
Glick interviewed Donald Trump (portrayed by Jimmy Fallon) about his first 100 days in office.

REAL TIME with BILL MAHER
June 21, 2024

JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!
Among those Glick interviewed on that talk show were Bill Hader, Melissa McCarthy, Sean Hayes, and Nick Kroll.

AC360
Glick talked with Anderson Cooper durng that week while he guest hosted 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'

Welcome to the Hall, Jiminy!  You'll find the club room well-stocked with doughnuts and gumdrops.