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 !
@@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 :)
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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
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.
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?”
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..., :)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
Looking at him, one would never have guessed that he was a WW2 combat vet who served in the US Marine and a Marine DI. He was wounded on Guadalcanal and contracted a tropical disease (blackwater fever) that has a 90% fatality rate. Even today, people who contract blackwater fever would end up in the ICU
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
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.
What I thought was interesting was Steve Allen referring to him as a "monologuist." I wonder if the term "Stand up comic" hadn't been introduced yet (or if Allen was just being snooty).
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!
Adams was in a comedy team with Larry Storch's brother, Jay for several years, but they had little success. He bumped along as a solo, but was not good at writing material, so his agent sent him to Bill Dana, whom he paid $20 wk for routines. You're listening to some of Dana's material now, which made him famous.
Just think this was long before Laugh In, SNL, and before a lot of the great comics, he was way ahead of his time, no wonder they chose him for Get Smart.
Don Adams was not only very funny but he served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, and took part in the landings and battle at Guadalcanal, where he contracted malaria.
Who's watching this in 2020?...............me:) Don Adams was truly an 'original'. Just like a great musician, as soon as you hear his voice, you know who is speaking. Tidbit: Don could memorize his lines (and others), just after reading it once.
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😞
How truly eye-opening and hilarious! what a treasure.....(and I say that as having been old enough to have seen Get Smart during it's original run, before he was totally typecast, but of an age to Not Get that one had to prove themselves before acquiring the rights to such a part).
Steve Girard Media you're right I did know that. Sometimes people just don't get the humor, over their head maybe, I just let them have their moment in the sun. That may have been the only chance they get to feel superior so let them have it. Plus they made their point without being derogatory. Thanks for backing me up though.
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!
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
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.
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!!!
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
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.
_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.
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.
Thank you for defending us from Kaos too....
Kaos won after he went off air. He was great!
Wow-Don Adams was a very good actor in general. Very precise, very good timing. Very talented guy.
Watching this, enjoying the nostalgia and.......... LOVING IT!
Thank you 86.
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?
One of the TRULY GREAT comics just hitting his stride....We MISS YOU, DON!!!!
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.
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
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?
Missed it by that MUCH 😞
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!
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.
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?”
Tears streaming down my face with laughter. Don, we miss your voice and brand of humor.
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😩😩
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.
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.
Change your shoes punchline had me laughing!
Fuse
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Truly one of the best comedic actors/ stand up/ television comedians of all time..Get Smart was genius mostly because of Don.
He's always had a handsome smile. :) *looks to Heaven* We LOVED you! And we will always remember you.
I’m glad that this was recommended at 12:51am. Thanks for the laughs, Don 😂
Don Adams Rest In Peace. Without question one of the most talented comedians of the 20th Century.
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.
Two years before i was born.. love the electric car joke.
He's so funny and likable! This is great. He was a genius! Loved him in Get Smart. Thank you for the video.
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 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
Love him, I thought he was really very funny in a dry appealing way, great upload.
"Four thousand for the _extension cord._ " THAT aged INCREDIBLY WELL! ROFL.
I LOVED this!
Wow I love don't Adams for centuries. Would u believe. ... gd thinking 99....
Byron Glick was the name of the Hotel Detective he played on the Bill Dana Show..
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
Wow... at 5:13, a gay joke in 1957!!! That’s amazing!
WE of that era knew they ARE a joke!
Men were men, women were women...and thats complicated enough! 😉
Not really. It's a homophobic joke. So totally in tune with the era.
And electric cars are still a joke 60 years later. 😁😁
@@joshdrayton1230 Waaaaaaahhhh!
The birth of Maxwell Smart..
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?
Sounds like the football coach was doing the Maxwell Smart audition. Marvelous stuff.
It’s also the inspector gadget voice
It's funny hearing his normal voice at the start without the inflections he applies to his Maxwell Smart voice.
Does any of you remember Don Adams as The Voice of Tennessee Tuxedo?
And I always thought that was his normal voice not an accent! Pure genius!
What a funny man! You can see Maxwell right there and under that shirt is a purple heart and a bronze star. God bless him!
And loving it!
Truly one of the great character-comics of all time. pretty good stand-up too.
All class.
Looking at him, one would never have guessed that he was a WW2 combat vet who served in the US Marine and a Marine DI. He was wounded on Guadalcanal and contracted a tropical disease (blackwater fever) that has a 90% fatality rate. Even today, people who contract blackwater fever would end up in the ICU
True but most men who grew up when he did served in WW II.
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.
Watching this in Lock down here in the UK.
RIP you always made me smile
I don't think he's reading the comment section.
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.
Pretty interesting to see how standup was in those days. FWIW Don Adams was a Marine in WW2... I think he saw combat in Guadalcanal.
What I thought was interesting was Steve Allen referring to him as a "monologuist." I wonder if the term "Stand up comic" hadn't been introduced yet (or if Allen was just being snooty).
331SVTCobra he caught malaria there and almost died.
I think he killled a Japanese soldier with his bare hands. Not joking.
where does that info come from? interesting...
One of the many bios I read about him when he died
Thank you Don ! Brought back old memories when I was a little kid! I've always liked you ! Great delivery!
"Which naturally brings us to the subject of football." 😁
Many good laughs watching maxwell smart as a kid one of my favorite shows back then rip don.
The best part of his routine is the timing.
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!
Adams was a good standup, particularly for the 50s
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.
Adams was in a comedy team with Larry Storch's brother, Jay for several years, but they had little success. He bumped along as a solo, but was not good at writing material, so his agent sent him to Bill Dana, whom he paid $20 wk for routines. You're listening to some of Dana's material now, which made him famous.
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the electric car joke cracked me up
Really I didn't know that Wow
Can we just marvel for a moment at Steve Allen's introduction: "monologist"!
Just think this was long before Laugh In, SNL, and before a lot of the great comics, he was way ahead of his time, no wonder they chose him for Get Smart.
Great minds (: thanks, @Jim McCracken
Always loved Don Adams, especially in Get Smart!
The football coach was pretty close to his Maxwell Smart voice.
Would you believe...missed it by that much!
Just read that he was a Marine for 4 years. During the war it looks like...
More Respect.
In saw this aired...so long ago. It became Don's co-signature routine with the "Gossamer Wings" act.
Absolutely brilliant!!!This stuff is timeless!!! A total genius!!! :):):)
i remember being a kid and absolutely loving the Get Smart intro and outros.
Wow that was cool. Thank you for that.
Wow. What a really great bast from the past! So many great comments below. To bad the last one before mine was a year ago.
Hold on a minute, my other shoe is ringing 😆
Great impression of William Powell . LOL
Don Adams was not only very funny but he served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, and took part in the landings and battle at Guadalcanal, where he contracted malaria.
I didnt know he contacted melania
Who's watching this in 2020?...............me:) Don Adams was truly an 'original'. Just like a great musician, as soon as you hear his voice, you know who is speaking. Tidbit: Don could memorize his lines (and others), just after reading it once.
Steve Allen. The last "hip" talk-show host.
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 Marine Corps WW2 Vet. He was wounded and came down with Malaria.
A truly good caring man who felt bad about those who didn't come back
Slant Six yes we know that from the other video
How truly eye-opening and hilarious! what a treasure.....(and I say that as having been old enough to have seen Get Smart during it's original run, before he was totally typecast, but of an age to Not Get that one had to prove themselves before acquiring the rights to such a part).
Sounds like his coach was Tennessee Tuxedo.
T Franken he did the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo
Or Maxwell Smart! 😂
2dashville I think he knew that!
... or Inspector Gadget!
Steve Girard Media you're right I did know that. Sometimes people just don't get the humor, over their head maybe, I just let them have their moment in the sun. That may have been the only chance they get to feel superior so let them have it. Plus they made their point without being derogatory. Thanks for backing me up though.
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.
4:15 Tennessee Tuxedo will NOT faiL!
Imagine working with him, would be a constant laugh!
I am watching this show on my Toaster.
Wow, what a long funny set! He's awesome! Thanks for uploading!