The Jackie Gleason Show (1966–1970)
Jackie Gleason: Self - Host, Ralph Kramden, Joe the Bartender, Self, The Poor Soul, 'Big' Jim Finley, Fenwick Babbitt, Gangster Big Sam, Kramden, Mr. Gallagher (Sketch), Reggie van Gleason III, Reginald Van Gleason III, Self -Host
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Quotes
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Jackie Gleason : [at the end of each show] The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world!
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Ralph Kramden : [visiting in Ireland] You know, I never knew that Jackie Gleason was Irish.
Ed Norton : Oh yeah, I knew it. I read it in a TV magazine once. His whole family came over from Ireland during the potato famine.
Ralph Kramden : Oh.
Ed Norton : In fact, I think they caused it!
Ralph Kramden : That Gleason is a little chubby, isn't he?
Ed Norton : Oh, he certainly is.
[laughs]
Ralph Kramden : That Art Carney put on a few pounds too, you know.
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Ralph Kramden : [rehearsing a TV commercial in England] And I say, "Oh, it is my good wife, Lady Penelope Farthingay, Duchess of Rathbone. Blimey, you look lovely."
Alice Kramden : "Blimey"?
Ralph Kramden : That's right, "blimey". That's the way all of those high-falutin' English talk. They use words like "blimey", "tally-ho", "yoicks"...
Alice Kramden : If you ask me, we're the "yoicks" for doing this.
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Milton Berle : [during a 1969 curtain call] You look fantastic.
Jackie Gleason : Let me tell you what happened. I dropped 60 pounds.
Milton Berle : On whom?