I love watching his show and the skit Man on the Street with Louie Nye. Smock smock. Somehow, I just don't laugh as much as I use to when I watch TV.
2007-11-04 12:43:54 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Oh dear!! Now my face is red. I had no idea what that meant either!!!! Thanks for letting me know. Oh my goodness
2007-11-04 13:29:32 · update #1
Yes I do and I loved it. Steve was always funny and I laughed hysterically at most of the Man on the Street sketches. It is such a shame that the so called "brains" producing TV programs just cannot seem to measure up to the old programming that we used to enjoy!
2007-11-04 16:49:14 · answer #1 · answered by CJ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I loved watching the Steve Allen show & laughed so much at the man on the street skit, especially. Louie Nye, Bill Dana as Jose Jimenez, & Howard Morse, who later starred on the Andy Griffith show as Ernest T. Bass.
Like you, I don't laugh much anymore like I did in my younger days while watching tv. When I think of ALL the tv shows I watched in my younger days, I begin to really miss all of those favorite shows that I watched faithfully. There were some really great shows that we watched as a family. Those days are long gone.
2007-11-04 13:56:29 · answer #2 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When I was a teenager, I used to stay up for late night TV to watch The Steve Allen Show. I love his skits and Jose Jimenez and Louie Nye.
2007-11-05 06:53:40 · answer #3 · answered by Moe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Loved that show. Besides Louis Nye in that recurring sketch, there was Don Knotts and Tom Posten. Don went on to TV immortality as Deputy Barney Fife on the Andy Griffith Show and Tom was with Bob Newhart on his last series.
TV was free and easy in those days. Before joining Steve's regular cast of crazies, Tom Poston hosted a 3-hour live variety show, every Monday through Friday, on ABC. It was broadcast from the Little Theater in Manhattan and I got to sit in the audience for a few shows. BTW, that theater is now the one where Jon Stewart does his "Daily Show" from on Comedy Central cable channel.
Steve put all of those little words like "smock smock" together into a song. I have a copy of it.
2007-11-04 15:07:11 · answer #4 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Funny U should bring this up! My friend Art Allen & I watched that weeks shows with the "Schm_ck" / "Smock" skit not really realizing what he was Really saying! Ok, we were VERY NAIVE in High School!!! It just so happens that we both had a class in "Stage Craft" with a new teacher at the start of the year. Mr. William Burgess was her Supervisor & Dept. Head and specifically called us both to the side & told Us to treat her with "Kid Gloves" as she was fresh out of the U.of A. here in Tucson. We were more than happy to and went on our NAIVE WAY. But when she showed up that first day wearing a pure white "Smock", we & others started pointing & saying "Smock, Smock" just as on last nights show!!! She got SO SCREAMING MAD!!! We had NO Idea it was a Jewish word for the "Male Member"!!! We were sent to the Office where Mr. Burgess met Us & asked what was up??? We told him Exactly what happened, so "Straight Faced" & he did of course know Us, so he called her in to Explain it to her. She started to go off on him before he could get a word out! He just let her finish & then told her that we had NO Idea she was Jewish, or what the word meant!!! Her name was Rose Marie Peterson and she turned SO RED with Embarasment, she glowed!!! We became trusted friends with her & had a really great year!!! John
2007-11-04 13:20:39 · answer #5 · answered by moosemose 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Smock Smock Steve Allen
2017-01-13 08:20:51 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never cared that much for Steve Allen, but watched his show for "Jose' Jaminez" and dead pan Louie Nye
2007-11-05 02:13:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So super!! yet another comedian one ought to assume for a abdomen giggle. As for the political incorrectness;why isn't the Hispanic community up in arms over the humor of Cheech and Chong? Their entire schtick replaced into in step with 2 Mexicans being stoned for all time.
2016-10-15 01:34:53 · answer #8 · answered by benedick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was pretty young then, but I vaguely remember it. I especially enjoyed a show Steve Allen did, with his wife Audrey Meadows, for PBS some years later. It was called "A Meeting of Minds" and was done like a talk show featuring important figures of history. In it these characters presented their side of things, and it gave me a lot to think about.
2007-11-04 16:13:42 · answer #9 · answered by geniepiper 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes my hubby and I used to tune in his show. He seemed
to be a quick witted man, but maybe it was just his writers.
I didn't care for his wife, Audrey Meadows. She always came
across as so phoney or a snob to mom and I. And we both
knew her sister, Jane, who was on the Jackie Gleason Show,in the Honeymooners, as his wife, had the reputation
as a mildly tempered actress, just the opposite of her sisters'
reputation. Although I knew of Steves' passing, I never heard
it mentioned on TV when Audrey died. Jane has tho and it
made the news.
2007-11-04 18:16:55 · answer #10 · answered by Lynn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋