August 21, 1924-June, 30 2003
Haven't heard alot of good things about this guy.
I read somewhere at a buffett in Vegas a couple was in line and he rudely got in front of them and he was very rude and arrogant!!!
Of course thats only one story!!! Anybody heard anything good or bad?
The greater question might be... WHY in the world was Buddy Hackett famous in the first place?
How did he reach any kind of stature that he felt he could be rude to the common folk?
That guy was a talentless zero in my book (not to mention butt ugly and annoying).
(one man's opinion).
Good to hear...I agree but tried to be gentle in my approach I wasn't sure how alot of people felt...and that annoying voice he had!!!Originally Posted by Tugboat25
Butt Ugly...love it!!!
Maybe I never found him funny because he was of a few generations before me but honestly, I don't think that's it.
I just think the guy made a career out of being annoying (and he knew it).
I remember seeing him in some ice cream bar commercials (Dannon bars maybe??) and he would just slobber the ice cream in the commercials and apparently that was supposed to be funny....it wasn't.
He was stale. Why WAS he famous?
I was just looking him up on the internet and all I can find is he mainly became famous as a stand up comedian.
Did alot of work in Las Vegas. Other than that it really doesn't say a whole lot!!
If I remember right, he was a protege` of Buster Keaton and rode the coattails of HIS fame into show business. What little success he did have was mostly out of respect for Buster, not any talent he had. I think he was mostly cast in film because he could make that stupid crooked smile face like he had an IQ of 12. I too thought he was pretty lame.
I met Sandy Hackett at a comedy show he was promoting. I asked if he was Buddy's son. "I am" he replied in the coldest, most unemotional voice. I think there's some unpleasant history there but I've never researched it.
Buddy Hackett was hilarious as a stand-up and he also was a very good character actor. The hardest thing to explain to some people when they see old movies and the movies and actors seem stale, is that they were first. It is just that so many actors and comedians have built on what went before, so that when you see the original, it is plain in comparison.
I think Buddy's biggest movie would have been the Herbie movies and the car loved him etc... He was that typical enigma of his day, that he was very earthy in his Vegas act and on Disney movies he was all happy and sunshine. He was very popular in Vegas, but at the same time it is easy to see why he would have negative stories about him because it would shock some more family movie loving conservative folk to see him as his alter ego.
He also had a great and unique voice for voice overs, but the biggest thing is that he was most famous in the 60's and it was just a different time. Always played the lovable sidekick that was loving and simple and faithful to the lead character as in the Music Man, but my favorite was in the Brothers' Grimm when he played a shepherd.
My favorite Buddy Hackett was when he was on the Merv Griffin show and talking about Vegas. Then he said that he was always in Frank Sinatra's debt, as Frank saved his life.
Merv was all over that and asked him about it.
Buddy said he was leaving the casino he was appearing at and he was approached by several Mafia style gangsters. One held him and two took turns beating him. He thought that this was it for him and then Frank said, "Ok, that's enough boys."
Sorry, but everyone lost it on that one. Back then, very few people would tease Frank Sinatra.
Wowow, am I feeling old!!!!!!!!!!!!! Buddy Hackett was one funny, funny guy. He was very popular on the talk show circuit, and as a stand-up comedian, he drew sold out crowds. Buddy told a story about his Father - his Dad did some work for a wealthy man during the depression, but the man either refused to pay the total price. Anyway, Hackett's Dad got cheated. Many years later, the man hired Buddy Hackett to perform at an event. Hackett made certain his fee included that money still owed his Father, and that the cheater was made aware of the extra charge and what it was for. I think that makes Buddy Hackett a neat guy.
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I once heard comedian Ralphie May talking about Buddy Hackett on a radio show. He made Buddy out to be a lovely, lovely man- he frequently had younger comedians over to his place for dinners and holidays. He even gave Ralphie one of his watches- there was something significant behind it, but I can't remember what it was.
Ralphie told the story of Buddy's funeral- he ended up sitting close by Mickey Rooney. At the end of the service, Ralphie approached Mickey and told him that Buddy always said Mickey was the biggest talent ever. That brought tears to Mickey's eyes. I know he makes your guy's butt itch, but I thought it was a moving story.
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I watched a VHS tape of him in Vegas about 22 years ago. It was funny as Hell.
Funny blog with a Soupy story about Hackett...
http://www.weirdsmobile.com/archives...ith_soupy.html
Bwah ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
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buddy was on whats my line? 20 times,and john charles daly would let him pretty much have his way. if they did'nt like you,you would'nt get asked back at all.
I have a large collection of stand up performances by dozens of comedians on VHS that I taped over the past 20 years.
Buddy Hackett's performance at Caesars in Atlantic City from I believe 1986 was the absolute best of any of them. I've watched it probably 50 times over the years and I still laugh whenever I play it.
As for his personality, a good friend of mine was his neighbor for many years and he said Buddy was a total sweetheart.
OMG, I didnt know he died!!!!!
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Do you all think that Buddy Hackett and Joe Pesci have the same voice. My dad thought Dwight Eisenhower and Clark Gable had similar voices.
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I gotta jump in here on Buddy's side. I grew up watching the old variety show of the 50's and 60's. He was on all of them. In my opinion he was very funny. Like OBX said earlier a lot of the older comedians can seem stale to a younger crowd. I don't no much about how he was in his personal life but he always entertained me when I saw him in a movie or on TV. He played Lou Costello opposite Harvey Kormen as Bud Abbott in a movie about Abbott and Costello and I thought he was great in that movie. There was a lot of drama in that movie and he had a great capacity for drama.
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Buddy was great in The Music Man with Shirley Jones. Thats how I remember him best
One of the first major acts I ever saw in Las Vegas was Buddy Hackett in the early 1980's. Very entertaining.
His comedy special on HBO was very funny... it was the first time I had seen him outside of the Herby/Mad Mad world venue.. he did have his shock value.
I got to see Buddy in performance at the Desert Inn and he was funny so I was glad that I got to see him. I passed up the chance to see Rodney Dangerfield and have regretted it since. You're right; he was quite a good actor as well. Don't know anything about his personal life.
In the Buddy Hackett story, it says he was offered curlys place in the 3 stooges. I never heard that before. I am a member of the 3 stooges fan club and will e-mail the president if he has any information about this.
Found this on 3 stooges website.
The Buddy Hackett story is bul****. As Jules White told film fan/author/historian Jim Neibaur in an early '80s interview... "Hackett is full of it." As Ed Bernds told me back in 1998, "That's a load of crap." Hackett told stories; he was infamous for it... this is one of 'em. He starred in one 1948 comedy-bowling instruction one-reeler for Jules White... possibly seeing the Stooges on the lot, that's the closest he came to being a Stooge.
Mr. Hackett was well known for his verbal fertilizer.
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Jesster, as a Stooge-aphile, can you tell me the name of the Stooge short that features the punchline of "Paganinni"? That's how they mispronounce "page nine"
Thank you so much!
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I don't know the answer to the stooge question, but you can check threestooges.net , they have everything on that website. Also, go visit the 3 stooges museum in PA, its fantastic.
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