MONDAY MINUTIAE - JOE THE BARTENDER

PERRY MASON
THE CASE OF THE VIOLENT VEST

Frank Jenks played Walter Clemens the Bartender in this episode.  But when he was talking with Joy LeBaron and demanding to see her driver’s license, Joy kept calling him “Joe”.  When he told her that his name wasn’t “Joe”, she said of course his name was Joe – all bartenders were named “Joe”.

I think that’s a good indication that she had to be a fan of Jackie Gleason’s sketch character of Joe the Bartender (with Frankie Fontaine as Crazy Guggenheim) in ‘Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine’ which ran on CBS from 1962 to 1966.

There is no Zonk involved.  Jackie’s Joe the Bartender does not exist in the main Toobworld.  He and Crazy Guggenheim would be found in Skitlandia, an alternate Toobworld.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it