I met Don Adams on Sun Set Blvd. Before he stared in the movie " THE NUDE BOMB" I asked him for his autograph, & he opens the trunk of his car, & with a smile on his face, rips out the cover sheet to the script "THE RETURNE OF MAXWELL SMART" that also reads, property of Universal Studios" naturally between my friends, & the girl I was with that late night, we couldn't find a pen or pencil. So the girl I was with say's will an eyebrow pencil work? And that's how I was given not only Don Adams name, but an entire paragraph back before May 9th 1980, before they changed the title of the movie, & I still have it to this day ! What a TREASURE TO STILL HAVE AFTER ALL THESE'S YEARS !
Born in '58 and grew up watching "Get Smart" all through my childhood in the '60s. Funniest, cleverest show ever to hit the air waves! Brilliant silliness between Kaos and Control!
What an absurdly over-inflated assessment. A lot of the humor was about as basic and low-grade as it gets. It had a niche and was fun, but it is so far from the cleverest thing ever to be broadcast that it missed it by that (the distance between earth and the sun) much.
Don Adams was to Maxwell Smart what Jason Alexander is to George Costanza. Two comedy geniuses who nailed their characters so perfectly that they could never really escape them.
@@rodh1404 if I was just listening to the audio, I'd definitely prefer inspector gadget to maxwell smart, but as a little boy I had exactly 99 reasons why I kept watching the latter...
And no meanness. When he started on women’s intuition I was afeard but he was funny and totally saved it with the “ I said change the fuse”. Of course, later there was 99 so we know he was ok and just very insightful
@@marksitts2290 I grew up watching Get Smart but doubled to spanish, and the Inspector gadget to. I didnt know until some months ago that he did the voice of Inspector Gadget. so now. I will watch it all over again in original language :)
Having been born in England 1960 I loved Don as agent smart. Seeing this video has been an eye opener. What a great stand up!! I shall be looking for more of him.
Agent 86 and 99 against the forces of Kaos. Bob Crane and Don Adams wrote the theme song. Bob Crane, you may remember, was Hogan of Hogan's Heroes. That was another great show of the time.
Tennessee Tuxedo. One of the greatest cartoons ever!! Get Smart. One of the greatest comedies ever. Don Adam’s was a unique gift to us fortunate enough to have watched him growing up- or listening to Tennessee Tuxedo!👍😂🇺🇸❤️
@ If you think crude vulgarity and mindless curse words substituting for a clever narrative is the pinnacle of talent and creativity then you must be thrilled with today’s so called comedy. Happy for you that you and your low standards have so many wallowing places to enjoy.
@@highroller-jq3ix please, irreverence is the resort of lousy comedians...like lawyers pounding the table when they have nothing. there are very few comedians today who are actually funny, most of the females comedians make you feel like you're stuck in the middle of their appointments with their OBs and/or Freudien shrinks; while the men talk like little inner city boys letting off pent up frustration at the end of a school day...
Easy to see where Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, came from. Great comedian and comedic actor was Don Adams. His monologues and dialogues were razor sharp and his timing was perfect. Brilliant!
I was born in '57 and of course I remember Don as Maxwel Smart. We all tuned in to watch Agent 86 fight the forces of evil every week. "Missed it by that much," "Would you believe...," and "Sorry about that, Chief" became part of our daily chatter.
Get Smart is by far the greatest bestest comedy ever produced in earth's history. Its the only comedy you can watch over and over and over and still laugh every time. The sense of humor and acting is unbeatable, I believe it will never be beaten, ever.
Don Adams voiced the legendary Saturday morning animated penguin, Tennessee Tuxedo, and the part-human being/part-cyborg law enforcer Inspector Gadget. He was filled in the shoes left by the new voice of Inspector Gadget, Canadian character actor Ivan Sherry.
@@thomaslauffenberger5795 Thanks for that. I haven't seen the show in so long, I didn't remember that one. I'll have to find it somewhere and watch again.
Nobody but nobody could've played the role of Maxwell Smart.. Secret Agent 86 of Control better than this man here. RIP donny boy.. Thx for the great memories and all the laughs.
@@timthemailman7581 Get Smart is the second funniest US TV show I ever saw, and I can't think of the funniest. Brilliant writers and brilliant actors, never to be repeated.
@grodhagen CO2 is not classified as a pollutant and we need it to survive. You would think that the leftist Obama would be all over that climate change B.S. but ironically he just purchased a 15 million dollar home right on the water front in Martha's Vineyard. I guess he's not to worried about climate change.
Adams did Tennessee Tuxedo, while Dayton Allen, Steve's bro, did Chumley. Dayton Allen himself did many cartoon voices, and was a regular on Steve Allen's old shows.
All phenomenal tv shows. The cartoons are far far better than 99% of the junk that's on now as for Get Smart it's also far far better than 99% of the primetime comedy shows that are on now.
@@DavidALovingMPF102, and his daughter, Cecily (who was an actress in her own right-she was Quark's mom on _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ )-died around the same time.
@@googoo-gjoob Steve Allen was the most creative person and gave many their start a comics. He was so understated, almost came off as "nerdy" and yet he knew how get us laughing.
I love the GET SMART sitcom, it made me laugh so much that "would you believe" I bought the entire DVD collection. He was brilliant for his time. Thanks for wonderful memories secret agent 86, RIP.
Oh, I love this. As a comedy purist myself? It's all about stand-up, and I love watching these old-timers. I don't' see them as better than what we have today, as comedy has evolved and has gotten stronger and stronger, but their brand of comedy was so classy and so very subtle. I really enjoy watching the old stuff.
Jim Gilligan - Zigfried - I don’t have. Suicide pill I have a suicide ring - Smart: A Suicide Ring??? How does that work? Zigfried - if I take it off my wife kills me
They say laughter is the best medicine. This was priceless... Watched it in the midst of the COVID-19 Story.... This was so good for the soul. One of my favourite shows as a kid growing up in Canada, “Would you believe...”. What a line..., :)
Dick Tracy preceded him with a wrist phone, which would be called today a "wearable". Earlier and more advanced than the shoe phone. But very prescient for Smart, in an early episode his shoe causes an embarrassment by ringing at a concert. I guess there was no announcement at the beginning reminding patrons to please turn off their shoe phones.
Thanks for uploading👍 Comic Genius he was!! Still love watching Get Smart To This Day😀😀😀 Along with The Adams Family, I Dream Of Jeanie, F' Troop, Etc. Just Great Times! Considering The Current Situation😞
Don was a combat Marine who fought on Guadalcanal. Later he became a Marine Corps drill instructor. Imagine a drill instructor yelling in a recruit's ear with that voice!
He derived that staccato, precise diction voice from his drill instructor duty in the Marine Corps. Can you picture him demanding recruits, “Now, I expect this squad bay to be spic-and-span in 15 minutes. Do you understand?”
This is wonderful - what a great guy - never heard of him before - this is a great find ! Thank you so much for showing us limeys what a truly great American humorist is - Greetings from London - England !
The best agent ever, my favorite was when Max was disguised as a German and Zigfred told Stocker to release the dogs , and all they had was a recording of dogs barking, Koas couldn't afford real dogs.😅
Stop it with your ‘back in the old days' nonsense. There have always been ‘blue’ comics, but they weren’t allowed on TV. They were very common in comedy clubs. In the 1950s you weren’t even allowed to say the words ‘pregnant’ or ‘toilet’ on TV. Norms have changed since then, thank goodness. The real world was never truly like ‘Leave ito Beaver’. Get over it. If you don’t like a comedic style, change the channel.
He was from New York, but that voice he created (and later used in Get Smart) was based on an actor he saw in the movies. That wasn't his natural accent.
That's why I clicked on this, to hear his accent. I don't hear an accent until he says. All right, Men. I would have guessed Chicago Jew accent for his regular voice.
This guy is a MARINE. Fought enemy soldiers, saw combat, nearly died in the field. @4:20 Maxwell just arrived lol! First time I finally got to see his stand up, nice
@@readmore3634 Out of curiosity, in what targeted nation did he defend the USA? Because it seems that American forces are always enacting their "defense" in someone else's country- moreover, a country that hasn't attacked them. An impartial observer could be forgiven for wondering whether these dozens of foreign wars can't more accurately be described as criminal adventures- wars of aggression rather than defense.
@@vestibulate It was Guadalcanal. World War II. The USA was, in fact, attacked by the country they were fighting in that theater. The US had been avoiding involvement until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
@@vestibulate I'm no expert on Don Adams' bio... Or US history for that matter... I thought his show was funny when I was a kid.... I do know that I'd rather bring the fight to them...than fight the war within my country's borders. That would be terrible!..So...If a country is powerful enough to do that, they must have their shit together...and know better than to just go around fighting countries for no reason. Which country are you from?
How prophetic it was fifty years before we got the electric car but with inflation the car will cost you $50,000. That's $10,000 for the car and $40,000 for the extension cord.
2001Horatio...So you're the one who voted for Jimmy Carter. Could you explain and perhaps expand upon the economic and political conditions of the late 70s that led to the Reagan landslide?
@@scottty500 The *October Surprise* got Reagan in office. In 1980, the same percentage of adults voted for Reagan as believed that the sun orbits the earth - no joke. th-cam.com/video/cApW47dIWQ0/w-d-xo.html Gary Sick, a retired Naval Captain, served on Ford's, Carter's, and Reagan's National Security Council, wrote a book on US-Iran relations, *All Fall Down* - In "October 1980 officials in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign made a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of the American hostages until after the election and in return for this, the United States purportedly arranged for Israel to ship weapons to Iran. Sick had interviewed a witness who saw members of the Reagan election team in Paris in negotiations with the Iranian government. According to Sick, Oliver North was the administration's scapegoat, taking responsibility to conceal the "treason" of Reagan and Bush." www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/14/277058739/1-in-4-americans-think-the-sun-goes-around-the-earth-survey-says The problem with the US public being ignorant hasn't improved in nearly 40 years. "...Ron got 50.7 percent of the popular vote...Ron got a scant 27.3 percent of the eligible vote..." www.straightdope.com/columns/read/123/what-u-s-presidents-won-in-the-biggest-landslides/
hey @Wolverine Pete Baker Electric 1909 was very popular you did not have to hand crank it .. Jay Leno has one www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z11282/baker-electric.aspx
Sandra Fraser More correctly it is the other way around, we can observe just how much of Maxwell Smart came out of Adam’s natural comedic brilliance. So much of this pre-Smart performance is the mannerisms that would later go into Smart, even the voice of the coach, and the joke that restarts after finishing, then goes on again, and again.
I met Don Adams on Sun Set Blvd. Before he stared in the movie " THE NUDE BOMB" I asked him for his autograph, & he opens the trunk of his car, & with a smile on his face, rips out the cover sheet to the script "THE RETURNE OF MAXWELL SMART" that also reads, property of Universal Studios" naturally between my friends, & the girl I was with that late night, we couldn't find a pen or pencil. So the girl I was with say's will an eyebrow pencil work? And that's how I was given not only Don Adams name, but an entire paragraph back before May 9th 1980, before they changed the title of the movie, & I still have it to this day ! What a TREASURE TO STILL HAVE AFTER ALL THESE'S YEARS !
What a wonderful gift from Don!
Dom was awesome!
What did he write in that paragraph?
@@eemoogee160 yeah, what did he write?
Pics or it didn't happen
Born in '58 and grew up watching "Get Smart" all through my childhood in the '60s. Funniest, cleverest show ever to hit the air waves! Brilliant silliness between Kaos and Control!
Me too.
And the shoe phone…
What an absurdly over-inflated assessment. A lot of the humor was about as basic and low-grade as it gets. It had a niche and was fun, but it is so far from the cleverest thing ever to be broadcast that it missed it by that (the distance between earth and the sun) much.
Certainly the crown jewel of 60s TV comedies, a level above all the others.
@@clairehelmsley6608 You people are absurd. It was pure fluff and nonsense. Fun but without any sophistication or intellectual substance whatsoever.
Don Adams was to Maxwell Smart what Jason Alexander is to George Costanza. Two comedy geniuses who nailed their characters so perfectly that they could never really escape them.
There was Inspector Gadget, although that was really just another version of Maxwell Smart.
@@rodh1404 if I was just listening to the audio, I'd definitely prefer inspector gadget to maxwell smart, but as a little boy I had exactly 99 reasons why I kept watching the latter...
Paid in full 😅
@@Doing_Timewell now 😮 watching absolutely supercedes listening when 99 is the measure😅
Tennessee tuxedo
No smut, no swearing ,just great timing and delivery. Genius. Loved watching Maxwell Smart after school.
Nobody cursed back then, ever. And pregnancy happened if people got close to the same bed.
@@highroller-jq3ix some did, but they weren't funny...pryror... if you're getting pregnant while watching a standup comic your life is a tragic comedy
@@Doing_Time Too dumb for sarcasm. Ouch!
And no meanness. When he started on women’s intuition I was afeard but he was funny and totally saved it with the “ I said change the fuse”. Of course, later there was 99 so we know he was ok and just very insightful
What's wrong with smut and swearing?
I recommend we use the cone of silence while we remember and salute this talented actor.
After it got stuck with Smart and the chief under it, agent Smart said that the cone of silence never worked right to begin with, LOL.
WHAT?
@@jonothanthrace1530 Check out "Get Smart Cone of Silence"
Just lip the words without using your voice. :-)
Don Adams, had perfect timing and his delivery was superb, he was and forever will be "Maxwell Smart", always..........
He was Tennessee Tuxedo, Inspector Gadget, Maxwell Smart, and a host of others.
@@marksitts2290 I grew up watching Get Smart but doubled to spanish, and the Inspector gadget to. I didnt know until some months ago that he did the voice of Inspector Gadget. so now. I will watch it all over again in original language :)
He was a class actor and comedian
Your knee, is on, my chest.
Sorry about that!
To you he will be "Maxwell Smart", at 62 Don Adams will always be Tennessee Tuxedo to me!
Having been born in England 1960 I loved Don as agent smart. Seeing this video has been an eye opener. What a great stand up!! I shall be looking for more of him.
Agent 86 and 99 against the forces of Kaos. Bob Crane and Don Adams wrote the theme song. Bob Crane, you may remember, was Hogan of Hogan's Heroes. That was another great show of the time.
What does your birth place and year have to do with it?
Everything
Tennessee Tuxedo. One of the greatest cartoons ever!! Get Smart. One of the greatest comedies ever. Don Adam’s was a unique gift to us fortunate enough to have watched him growing up- or listening to Tennessee Tuxedo!👍😂🇺🇸❤️
"Come along, Chumley!"
"Duh okay, Tennessee..."
👍 😂
No curse words. Just great timing and talent.
Refreshing.
Yah, because prudish whining about an fbomb or two is the essence of comedy critique.
@ If you think crude vulgarity and mindless curse words substituting for a clever narrative is the pinnacle of talent and creativity then you must be thrilled with today’s so called comedy. Happy for you that you and your low standards have so many wallowing places to enjoy.
@@highroller-jq3ix please, irreverence is the resort of lousy comedians...like lawyers pounding the table when they have nothing. there are very few comedians today who are actually funny, most of the females comedians make you feel like you're stuck in the middle of their appointments with their OBs and/or Freudien shrinks; while the men talk like little inner city boys letting off pent up frustration at the end of a school day...
Easy to see where Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, came from. Great comedian and comedic actor was Don Adams. His monologues and dialogues were razor sharp and his timing was perfect. Brilliant!
I was born in '57 and of course I remember Don as Maxwel Smart. We all tuned in to watch Agent 86 fight the forces of evil every week. "Missed it by that much," "Would you believe...," and "Sorry about that, Chief" became part of our daily chatter.
I came out of the factory in '58 and "Missed it by that much" still makes an appearance whenever something doesn't quite happen 😂
The craw ? Not craw craaww
I tuned in to watch agent 99 😍
🤔🙄 yes! However this is classified, shouldn't we be discussing this in the cone of silence?😉
I would like to have that '65 Sunbeam Tiger he drove!
Get Smart is by far the greatest bestest comedy ever produced in earth's history. Its the only comedy you can watch over and over and over and still laugh every time. The sense of humor and acting is unbeatable, I believe it will never be beaten, ever.
Ok, who created the show
Get Smart?
@@brianbiechele1958 Mel Brooks.
@@frankflapper445 Cool brother. And Buck Henry. "The Cone of Silence" Then they had to shout. Perfect.
That's dumb and extravagant.
Ahead of its time
I didn't know Don Adams did stand up comedy. Funny stuff. This video should have 86 likes
Which actor voice the half-robotic law-enforcement android Inspector Gadget? Was it Don Adams or Ivan Sherry?
Don Adams voiced the legendary Saturday morning animated penguin, Tennessee Tuxedo, and the part-human being/part-cyborg law enforcer Inspector Gadget. He was filled in the shoes left by the new voice of Inspector Gadget, Canadian character actor Ivan Sherry.
Barbara Feldon celebrated a birthday two days ago. 99 is 86 now.
Magnificent Failure ...get out of town! I’ll take your word and run with it!
You probably also didn't know he was a US Marine during WW2; fought at Guadalcanal and later served as a Marine drill instructor.
I was going to watch this all the way through but I missed it by that much.
But while you were watching, you...were...LOVING IT!
@@thomaslauffenberger5795 Is that a reference I've missed somehow?
@@MrMZaccone Yes; when the Chief would tell Max about the perils of an upcoming mission, he'd answer by saying, "...and loving it!"
@@thomaslauffenberger5795 Thanks for that. I haven't seen the show in so long, I didn't remember that one. I'll have to find it somewhere and watch again.
Would you believe..That Don Adams could be so funny!!!
I'm watching this video on my shoe.
@@leannevandekew1996 I see preCISELY what you did there.
Would you believe on my briefcase?
Stephen Hogan Its the only real way to watch a video! 😉
" ohhhhh Max."
Oh your on the toilet! 😷🤭💩
Nobody but nobody could've played the role of Maxwell Smart.. Secret Agent 86 of Control better than this man here. RIP donny boy.. Thx for the great memories and all the laughs.
claude878878 exactly correct.
B4 he Got Smart......... ;)
And don't forget Tennessee Tuxedo. Awesome Sat mornin cartoon.
I understand he was a bitter man in his retirement. Too bad. I thought he was funny
this naturally brings us to the topic of football.
Would you believe, this is the first time I've seen Don Adams doing a "monologist" routine, 63 years after he did it - missed it by "that" much.
That's the 2nd funniest comment I have ever read. LOL
@@timthemailman7581 Get Smart is the second funniest US TV show I ever saw, and I can't think of the funniest. Brilliant writers and brilliant actors, never to be repeated.
@@martintaper7997 LOL
??? Don't tell me you've never seen this video before??
@@grapefruitm00n I have, when I made the comment above. 😄
My Dad still uses that electric car joke to this day lol.
Because electric cars are still a joke. 😄😄
@@jeffroegner1499 And Tesla took his joke seriously ! "That's he second biggest extension cord I've ever seen !"
@grodhagen CO2 is not classified as a pollutant and we need it to survive. You would think that the leftist Obama would be all over that climate change B.S. but ironically he just purchased a 15 million dollar home right on the water front in Martha's Vineyard. I guess he's not to worried about climate change.
@@sammushroomman4211 Well ... this " fill up for under $30" didn't age well .... 🙄😠😒
I heard that or a similar joke on George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950-1958) so I don't know who said it first, Don or Gracie.
Tears streaming down my face with laughter. Don, we miss your voice and brand of humor.
Watching this, enjoying the nostalgia and.......... LOVING IT!
Thank you 86.
how many can tell this is Don by just the distinctive voice?
I thought it was Tennessee Tuxedo 🤔
Adams did Tennessee Tuxedo, while Dayton Allen, Steve's bro, did Chumley. Dayton Allen himself did many cartoon voices, and was a regular on Steve Allen's old shows.
All phenomenal tv shows. The cartoons are far far better than 99% of the junk that's on now as for Get Smart it's also far far better than 99% of the primetime comedy shows that are on now.
@dandanthetaximan I thought it was his DON ADAMS SCREEN TEST
I thought it was the chief
What a great entertainer he was. I enjoy watching the "Get Smart" DVD's when I feel blue.
He always makes me laugh!
Don Adams died at what age?
Same
@@markwatson6783 82 back in 2005
@@DavidALovingMPF102, and his daughter, Cecily (who was an actress in her own right-she was Quark's mom on _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ )-died around the same time.
I've never seen his stand up before. He was great!
I'm pretty sure I have one of his comedy albums.
Having clips from the old Steve Allen Show is pretty awesome.
Wow-Don Adams was a very good actor in general. Very precise, very good timing. Very talented guy.
I always loved this guy. Don Adams was brilliant.
_One of America's brightest new monologists._
Boy, those were the days.
Steve Allen... the creator of and my fav host of The TONIGHT Show.
@@googoo-gjoob
Steve Allen was the most creative person and gave many their start a comics. He was so understated, almost came off as "nerdy" and yet he knew how get us laughing.
I had no idea what that meant 😄
@@StrongnBeautiful Only Steve would use a word like that! 🙂
The other one was Carlin, both from NY.
I Appreciate the individual that created this post and chose to head the page with
Don Adams 1957
I didn't know he was a U.S. Marine! Gives me a whole new level of respect for him.
So was Lee Marvin & Captain Kangaroo.
So was mr rodgers
I have less respect.
He was also a drill instructor for a time.
so was Mickey Mouse
Don Adams Rest In Peace. Without question one of the most talented comedians of the 20th Century.
Maxwell Smart forever.. He had one of the greatest tv shows of all times. Absolutely loved this guy.
I love the GET SMART sitcom, it made me laugh so much that "would you believe" I bought the entire DVD collection. He was brilliant for his time. Thanks for wonderful memories secret agent 86, RIP.
Missed it by that much
One of the TRULY GREAT comics just hitting his stride....We MISS YOU, DON!!!!
Truly do.
Chief: Max you will always and only be known for one character your entire life.
Max: And loving it!
Tennessee Tuxedo?
What about Inspector Gadget! And Tennessee Tuxedo from the Underdog show?
He is truly a comic genius. His deadpan delivery and timing are soooo cool.... and smart.
"Four thousand for the _extension cord._ " THAT aged INCREDIBLY WELL! ROFL.
Thank you for defending us from Kaos too....
Kaos won after he went off air. He was great!
We got a new version of chaos now. In our government.
Oh, I love this. As a comedy purist myself? It's all about stand-up, and I love watching these old-timers. I don't' see them as better than what we have today, as comedy has evolved and has gotten stronger and stronger, but their brand of comedy was so classy and so very subtle. I really enjoy watching the old stuff.
LJY08 i see it has evolved into smut. Only some one off routines are free of it
There is no comedy nowadays, to many snowflakes get triggered.
Holy Shit, Chris Farley did the Football Coach bit… what a tribute… we miss all the good ones, Chris, Norm, Richard…
My two favourites from Get Smart:
My craw not my craw!
Get your knee of my chest.
Great comedic writing and acting.
I believe it was the craw not the
Craw!
"Not the Craw. The Craw!" See the video: th-cam.com/video/YLa83lqBKKU/w-d-xo.html
Don't forget bronze finger cause a thumb is a finger.
@@TheDarkelflover and HYMIE the ROBOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jim Gilligan - Zigfried - I don’t have. Suicide pill I have a suicide ring - Smart: A Suicide Ring??? How does that work? Zigfried - if I take it off my wife kills me
Wow, what a long funny set! He's awesome! Thanks for uploading!
I’m glad that this was recommended at 12:51am. Thanks for the laughs, Don 😂
I had no idea that Don was a stand up comic. He was really good!! He was perfect as Agent Smart.
He was also great as cartoon Tennessee Tuxedo. 👍
As soon as I read this a vision of Tennessee appeared before me.
Don't forget Inspector Gadget
Inspector gadget was sooo good
"Phineas J. Whoopee, you're the greatest!"
I was hoping someone else would remember T Tuxedo!
Change your shoes punchline had me laughing!
Fuse
He's so funny and likable! This is great. He was a genius! Loved him in Get Smart. Thank you for the video.
hilarious, last couple days i've seen both don knotts and don adams stand up bits, they both were very good and have aged brilliantly.
Missed it by that MUCH 😞
They say laughter is the best medicine. This was priceless... Watched it in the midst of the COVID-19 Story....
This was so good for the soul.
One of my favourite shows as a kid growing up in Canada, “Would you believe...”. What a line..., :)
Me too jaja loved the show 😁😁😁, they just dont make comedy shows like they used to😩😩
i never would've believed that Tennessee Tuxedo coached college football
jim ewok
Howard Stern’s dad produced his Tn. Tuxedo
and they did NOT fail
🤣🤣🤣Alot of people nowadays have no clue who Tennessee Tuxedo was.
@@jamesb8193 the deuce, you say? what do they even teach kids these days?
Thank you Don ! Brought back old memories when I was a little kid! I've always liked you ! Great delivery!
Get Smart, was one of my favorite shows of all time, the genius of Adam's and Mel Brooks, filled my childhood with laughter.
Maxwell Smart let's not forget he was the first one with a cell phone he kept it hid in a shoe
A year before Star Trek and it's communicator
@@JokerDon1 CIA and the feds visited the set with the writers wondering where they got their info from on the TOP SECRET INVENTIONS they had
Dick Tracy preceded him with a wrist phone, which would be called today a "wearable". Earlier and more advanced than the shoe phone. But very prescient for Smart, in an early episode his shoe causes an embarrassment by ringing at a concert. I guess there was no announcement at the beginning reminding patrons to please turn off their shoe phones.
There's a black and white episode of him disrupting a movie theater audience when his shoe phone rings. It was the first in history it ever happened.
Dick Tracy had wireless t.v. in his wristwatch, and Dick Tracy kicked off in 1931.
Don Adams was USMC in WW2. He fought on Guadalcanal, then caught malaria and was sent home. He ended up as a Drill Instructor in San Diego MCRD.
Wow I love don't Adams for centuries. Would u believe. ... gd thinking 99....
Very cool to see his stand-up! Thank you for uploading this!
Truly one of the best comedic actors/ stand up/ television comedians of all time..Get Smart was genius mostly because of Don.
Thanks for sharing this ... ever notice how large his hands were? RIP Mr. Adams you were great! Thanks for all you did to entertain EVERYONE!
Love him, I thought he was really very funny in a dry appealing way, great upload.
Thanks for uploading👍 Comic Genius he was!! Still love watching Get Smart To This Day😀😀😀 Along with The Adams Family, I Dream Of Jeanie, F' Troop, Etc.
Just Great Times! Considering The Current Situation😞
Absolutely brilliant!!!This stuff is timeless!!! A total genius!!! :):):)
One of the greatest. His timing was great for a comedian.
"He was a good man, 43." "But he was only half the man you are, 86."
Wonderful, Thankyou!
Don was a combat Marine who fought on Guadalcanal. Later he became a Marine Corps drill instructor. Imagine a drill instructor yelling in a recruit's ear with that voice!
This could be where he developed the maxwell smart character.... I wonder.
This is such a treat. 😂❤
He couldn't have known that night that he would forever be known for his "Mr Football" voice.
He derived that staccato, precise diction voice from his drill instructor duty in the Marine Corps. Can you picture him demanding recruits, “Now, I expect this squad bay to be spic-and-span in 15 minutes. Do you understand?”
He used that voice for Inspector Gadget it seems.
Remember the episode where 86 got jealous of agent 43 and 99 said, “You’re worth two 43’s, 86.
I LOVED this!
Yes, Steve actually said "monologist". That's a word we don't hear much anymore.
Charlie Simar
Steve Allen had unusual cranial credentials, didn't he. He was a modern Renaissance man.
Since than we have grown Stereologists :)
Maybe it's because it has more than two syllables and wouldn't be understood today, lol
Common term in the vaudeville days, not so much anymore.
There is a reason for that.
He's always had a handsome smile. :) *looks to Heaven* We LOVED you! And we will always remember you.
This is wonderful - what a great guy - never heard of him before - this is a great find ! Thank you so much for showing us limeys what a truly great American humorist is - Greetings from London - England !
Even if you are from England how are you not aware of Get Smart? A serious classic
I enjoyed the tv series Get Smart and the phone in the shoe was very cool. I didn't know he ever did stand up.
Ironsides was the crime fighter who never did stand up.
Truly one of the great character-comics of all time. pretty good stand-up too.
Two years before i was born.. love the electric car joke.
The best agent ever, my favorite was when Max was disguised as a German and Zigfred told Stocker to release the dogs , and all they had was a recording of dogs barking, Koas couldn't afford real dogs.😅
I've never noticed how much he resembles Rod Serling before.
+leo powers A little. Cause Don has his hand in his pants pocket. Serling did the same pose for opening of Twilight Zone.
I wonder if Don knew Serling
Lol a little like Lee Harvey Oswald too
leo powers everyone looked the same in the sixties , it’s the suits.
I thought the same thing too.
It's incredible how the band struck up playing my high school fight song after Don's routine.
As a little girl I watched Get Smart. Too bad the young today don't get to watch the great actors like we had!
Isn’t all this stuff on TH-cam or most definitely on some streaming service … kids today have everything literally everything
i remember being a kid and absolutely loving the Get Smart intro and outros.
Quite calm in his delivery and not jumping around swearing profusely looking for attention.
Imagine, a comedian saying funny stuff!
Yeah, when they didn't rely on that crutch. It will be over soon, everyone is so foul mouthed now, that the shock will be gone.
In night clubs, the club owners made him use risque humor in his act, but he was never comfortable with it.
Stop it with your ‘back in the old days' nonsense. There have always been ‘blue’ comics, but they weren’t allowed on TV. They were very common in comedy clubs. In the 1950s you weren’t even allowed to say the words ‘pregnant’ or ‘toilet’ on TV. Norms have changed since then, thank goodness. The real world was never truly like ‘Leave ito Beaver’. Get over it. If you don’t like a comedic style, change the channel.
Lol!
So great to see this fantastic entertainer👏🎉
I love how his imitation of the football coach is his "Maxwell Smart" voice (which was based on his impression of William Powell)...!
I always thought it was based on Ronald Coleman
MoeGreensLeftEye Not if you've ever heard Ronald Colman. He does Colman in the If I Were King episodes.
The voice also sounds like Tennessee Tuxedo
@@trusso11783 Don Adams *was* the voice actor for Tennesee Tuxedo
Scott R I know. That’s why I wrote that.
Watching GET SMART on Saturday evenings back in the 60’s,and “loving it”.
And loving it!
About six months ago I bought the boxed set of Get Smart. _And loving it._
Wow that was cool. Thank you for that.
One of my favorite favorites guys period. Him with Ziegried was belly laughing Everytime.
Sounds like the football coach was doing the Maxwell Smart audition. Marvelous stuff.
It’s also the inspector gadget voice
He did the Tennessee Tuxedo voice years before the show! 😂😂
Underrated comedian for sure.
Always loved Don Adams. 🇦🇺😀
No wonder his character on _The Bill Dana Show_ was named Glick. Turns out he was doing a Coach Football impression the entire time.
His accent,was a combo of Brooklyn and Mid Atlantic[which is an extinct accent];a sort of odd mix of lower & upper crust vernacular.
He was from New York, but that voice he created (and later used in Get Smart) was based on an actor he saw in the movies. That wasn't his natural accent.
That's why I clicked on this, to hear his accent. I don't hear an accent until he says. All right, Men. I would have guessed Chicago Jew accent for his regular voice.
He attended De Witt Clinton high school in the Bronx.
@@dorinriki William Powell to be exact
Don Adam's brilliant and unique. Love him!
This guy is a MARINE.
Fought enemy soldiers, saw combat, nearly died in the field. @4:20 Maxwell just arrived lol!
First time I finally got to see his stand up, nice
What's so great about Marines?
@@PapagenoMF ....the shmoe... (that's a stupid question) What's not great about defending the USA?
@@readmore3634 Out of curiosity, in what targeted nation did he defend the USA? Because it seems that American forces are always enacting their "defense" in someone else's country- moreover, a country that hasn't attacked them. An impartial observer could be forgiven for wondering whether these dozens of foreign wars can't more accurately be described as criminal adventures- wars of aggression rather than defense.
@@vestibulate It was Guadalcanal. World War II. The USA was, in fact, attacked by the country they were fighting in that theater. The US had been avoiding involvement until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
@@vestibulate I'm no expert on Don Adams' bio... Or US history for that matter... I thought his show was funny when I was a kid....
I do know that I'd rather bring the fight to them...than fight the war within my country's borders. That would be terrible!..So...If a country is powerful enough to do that, they must have their shit together...and know better than to just go around fighting countries for no reason.
Which country are you from?
“I asked you not to tell me that!”…my hero. 😊
How prophetic it was fifty years before we got the electric car but with inflation the car will cost you $50,000. That's $10,000 for the car and $40,000 for the extension cord.
Add a few more zeros. A nice 3 bed home was $12,000 then. So the electric car would have cost half that of a nice home.
2001Horatio...So you're the one who voted for Jimmy Carter. Could you explain and perhaps expand upon the economic and political conditions of the late 70s that led to the Reagan landslide?
@@scottty500 The *October Surprise* got Reagan in office. In 1980, the same percentage of adults voted for Reagan as believed that the sun orbits the earth - no joke. th-cam.com/video/cApW47dIWQ0/w-d-xo.html
Gary Sick, a retired Naval Captain, served on Ford's, Carter's, and Reagan's National Security Council, wrote a book on US-Iran relations, *All Fall Down* - In "October 1980 officials in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign made a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of the American hostages until after the election and in return for this, the United States purportedly arranged for Israel to ship weapons to Iran.
Sick had interviewed a witness who saw members of the Reagan election team in Paris in negotiations with the Iranian government. According to Sick, Oliver North was the administration's scapegoat, taking responsibility to conceal the "treason" of Reagan and Bush."
www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/14/277058739/1-in-4-americans-think-the-sun-goes-around-the-earth-survey-says The problem with the US public being ignorant hasn't improved in nearly 40 years.
"...Ron got 50.7 percent of the popular vote...Ron got a scant 27.3 percent of the eligible vote..." www.straightdope.com/columns/read/123/what-u-s-presidents-won-in-the-biggest-landslides/
hey @Wolverine Pete Baker Electric 1909 was very popular you did not have to hand crank it .. Jay Leno has one
www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z11282/baker-electric.aspx
The first electric cars were in the late 1800s. President Taft owned a Baker electric car around 1913.
67 years on he opens with an EV joke that was spot on!
RIP you always made me smile
I don't think he's reading the comment section.
Very funny,a bit of the old Maxwell Smart came out in his early stand up, thank you for sharing.
Sandra Fraser More correctly it is the other way around, we can observe just how much of Maxwell Smart came out of Adam’s natural comedic brilliance. So much of this pre-Smart performance is the mannerisms that would later go into Smart, even the voice of the coach, and the joke that restarts after finishing, then goes on again, and again.