I said it tonight to a friend and she'd never heard it. She's from Kansas and it made me wonder if it's a West Coast saying. And what does it mean anyway!?
2007-01-19 02:26:49 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Oh Yes!
This originated on the "Howdy Doody Show" back in the 1950's.
The bleachers where the kids in the live studio audience sat was called "The Peanut Gallery". When Bob Smith or Howdy Doody did something and the kids who sat there responded with a Boo or another silly way, Bob would say. "Hey, no comment from the Peanut Gallery".
It is now a silly term used in a joking way by someone who doesn't want another person's opinion on a subject.
My dad would always say this when my sisters & I were in the car and he would announce we would eat at Big Boys. We would always moan and say 'we want McDonald's", leaving him to answer back, "No comments from the Peanut Gallery".
Hope I answered your question!
2007-01-19 02:31:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
Originated from the theater in New York. The peanut gallery was the topmost tier of seats, the cheapest in the house, a long way from the stage. In Britain the call it "the gods" because you are so close to the gods.
A few TV shows made it popular though, Howdy Doody Show and I believe Soupy Sales used to say it also a lot.
2007-01-19 02:36:51 · answer #2 · answered by Captain Jack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A strong benefit of the doubt says it is because he is in a very difficult place personally. He was an orphan at an early age, he loves his mentor of twenty years and wishes to remain loyal to him. However, he also wants to be president (other people probably want him to be president even more than he does right now). How to please everybody? Not possible in this situation through straight answers. I think it is also very likely that he may have *heard* Wright's comments for years, but only with the ears he had then. He may very well be hearing such comments in a different way now that he is on stage, and millions of people are listening. Sort of like how tasteless jokes from an uncle are tolerable at the family dinner table, but make you cringe when he decides to repeat them in front of your hot new date and her friends and family.
2016-03-29 04:37:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard it and I'm in the Northeast.
The Peanut Gallery is from the Howdy Doody Show. Way before my time but my mother explained it to me once when I asked why my father always said, "No one asked for comments from the Peanut Gallery!"
2007-01-19 05:58:18 · answer #4 · answered by Kalypso 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard the comment. But I can make an educated guess as to the meaning. People in the cheap seats used to scatter peanut shells all over the floor, while watching a performance, as all they could afford to buy was peanuts. The word "peanuts" basically means "very inexpensive". People in the peanut seats, therefore, are supposed to be unsophisticated, uneducated, and so on. So, normally, such people (supposedly) make rude or sarcastic comments especially about things/people of which they have no knowledge. So, if even such people make no comment about you, it means you are really good at what you are doing.
2007-01-19 02:33:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anpadh 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I live in Kansas and I have heard of it. It just means that you didn't ask for their $.02. That is all. Well, that and that you don't want to hear nothing smartallicy out of them.
2007-01-19 02:31:36 · answer #6 · answered by protruckdriver71 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good answer, Sweet Muse! And it is a phrase commonly used in Michigan also.
2007-01-19 02:36:50 · answer #7 · answered by greenglass d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dad used to say that to us (as little kids). We're from Ga.
2007-01-19 02:35:49 · answer #8 · answered by Betty T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means "Your input is unnessesary and unwanted on that topic."
2007-01-19 04:52:50 · answer #9 · answered by captainskully2000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah i've heard it before from family members. i don't know where its from though.
2007-01-19 02:36:15 · answer #10 · answered by Essie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋