Here is my opinion about comedy: You make a story that is interesting, even if the jokes don't work.

Alan in ways was like hawkeye in piecing together war wounded views of his role as Benjamin pierce

Mash hid like ptsd behind the laughter dealing with trauma of real life korean mobile surgical hospitals of wounded soldiers

About war and casualties of warfare

Groundbreaking show set at time of korean war during Vietnam 🇻🇳 war early 70s

Mash changed television

The treasure chest 41 years passed still there??

Loved Alan Arbus on M*A*S*H. A memorable episode.

500,000 COMPLAINTS IN WRITING!!! IN THE 1950'S!!!! THAT IS AT LEAST 5M 😊 PROBABLY OVER 10M😊

THANKQ THANKQ VERY MUNCHO UNCLE MILTIE!!! 💋 😘 😗 😚 😙 💏 💋 😘 😗 😚 😙 💏 💋 😘 😗 😚 😙

So, John Ritter was making $150,000 per episode, but they wouldn't pay Suzanne more than $40,000? Wow!

A hero Anthony Fremont was not a hero. He was a monster you’re sick. You are sick. I wish they would’ve had somebody else in there. They would have destroyed you with your mind in your thoughts and set you on fire. Everybody meets their maker. You’re not a herodude you’re a monster that’s why everybody around you hated you. That’s why your mom wanted to kill you. Your mom lived in fear because of you. Your dad feared you not being a you use your powers for evil and not for good

One of the Greats

Love this actor. So believable in everything he does.

what a legend, my lord. comic genius, and just one of the coolest guys ever. RIP, fred willard. thank you for everything.

I'm 77 and watched all this first-run because my parents would not miss this show, ever.

Just love this guy he is such a down to earth man ❤❤

I'm a rambling man ... made a lot of stops...

I'm a disabled veteran who has extreme depression and no one can tell. Some of us are very good at hiding it.

A treat for all of us that we got to watch and listen to Sid and the gang. Listen to Sid or any of them and you’ll know you’re listening to people that really know what they’re talking about…. A treat.

MASH was the most virulent anti-military show ever created. Not just anti-war, anti-MILITARY and its members. I thought it was disgusting then, and I still do today.

The real inspiration was a real life person named Jackson Barnett. His story is the template for the series.

The story is no doubt taken from the real life Jackson Barnett who was an Oklahoma Indian who became wealthy in 1912 when oil was discovered on his allotment. It turned out to the be the biggest oil field in the US. Jackson was the black sheep of the family and lived alone until 1920 a woman from Kansas literally drove down to Henryetta and married him. In the early 1920s he moved to a large house in Los Angeles on Wilshire Blvd. Jackson would go outside and direct traffic. Henning grew up in Kansas and there were regular stories in the news about Jackson. The government and others were constantly trying to get a piece of Jackson's fortune but he had a legal guardian that kept him from being swindled and watched his money. That guardian was analogous to the Mr Drysdale character. Jackson was my great great great 1/2 uncle.

Alan Alda’s behavior in this video indicates & proves & evidences several things, always, including: 1) extreme cognitive dysfunction, with broken & abnormal cognition(s) & thought(s) process. He has trouble speaking, thinking, he stutters, & he loses his train of thought etc. 2) drug abuse, he keeps sniffling & fiddling with & touching his nose, with abnormal respiration etc. & nervousness & talkativeness. 3) dilated pupils, again indicating drug abuse, & fear with nervous behavior & trembling in his voice etc. It all indicates & points to drug abuse, and I suspect he abused methamphetamine, always. Gee Class, it looks like yankee doodled on Alan again, get off drugs, Alan. ✌️😇😷🌈📀📜🔒🔐🏳️

God bless you Carrol 🙏❤

57 year old pro photographer from seattle here... would watch MASH with my parents growing up and LOVED it...of course. How did I never know that Allan Arbus was married to Diane Arbus and they both shared a photography business with each other? Diane was a photo guru! Allan was no slouch himself now that Im researching it a bit...just blown away learning this!

Interestingly in the film Same Time, Next Year-Alan Alda's character has a son serving in the Vietnam War.

One of my favorite people. I like this man enormously.

I also loved Alan Arbus and the man who played Col Flagg. This was an excellent episode. Hawkeye's evolution from player to more dimensional guy was wonderful.

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Did he do anything after the Hillbillies & Green Acres were cancelled?.

With the passage of time, I think people have forgotten what is perhaps the primary legacy of MASH -- they LITERALLY invented a new genre of TV show: The 'dramedy.' Before MASH, shows were either comedies or dramas, but MASH was the first to combine the two elements masterfully in a riveting and entertaining presentation. If I recall, that term was actually invented in response to MASH.

As I have commented in other MASH related videos, the first three seasons seemed to carry more humor than seasons 4 through 11. I mean yes there was humor in the latter seasons, but it seemed like the characters in the first three seasons were a bit more animated. Major Burns and Houlahan for example. They were definitely over the top. Then Burns was gone, and Houlahan became more serious. The comedy that came from that character was not over the top anymore. But for whatever the reasons, MASH worked. Each character became a household name, with viewers loving, or loving to hate the characters. I don’t think there had been any show beforehand that had such dramatic changes in casts, and still survived. The loss of Blake and Trapper, was so unfortunate, then later Burns and Radar, but yet the dynamics were pretty much the same. I can’t say for anyone else who loves the show, but as for me, I never tire of it. The comedic timing, the interaction of the cast, and the way the topic of war was handled, made this the best long running show in history. And as actors pass on, we are reminded, that we can never get that kind of show again. Each cast member was brilliant and made MASH the show it is today. May MASH live in our hearts forever. And thanks Mr. Alda for your contribution.

I am a theater techie who got dragged into acting, and I totally get Alan's comment about just showing up to inhabit the role, and not really thinking about the audience. When I have a big technical show to rehearse up and do, all I can do is just rehearse my best and rely on my fellow cast and crew on the night. Not that I'm any good, but the actors that I do know, and respect, are just the same. Some productions I've been in have been reasonably successful, and it is palpable to speak a line and realize from the silence that the entire theater is holding its breath. But that just comes out of the work, it's something to aim for, but if you spend all your time thinking about it, you'll never hit your mark.

Aladdin's moper A Promised Land

The Ball was a great episode, particularly for its writing.

This show was not really about war, at least, not in the later years. It was about promoting a liberal and feminist agenda, which is not what the Korean War was about. I guess you could say Alda was 40 years ahead of his time, for better or for worse.

Astounding talent.

At times I thought Alan was a tad overbearing as Hawkeye the wisecracker. Now I think he is so intelligent, real and a kind person.

I wish he'd had his brother & father on more... RIP TONY

MASH was a BFD!

Australia shut down to watch the last show just like the U.S.A. . Beloved characters orchestrating humour and pain. They just don't make them like that anymore.

The last show was great

Malabu doubles wonderfully for Korea.

"Grooming" is what the far right complains about these days. How can they even use that word without laughing hysterically?

So-called "Alan Alda" isn't even his real name. He sold-out his birth name of Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo to 'Hollywood'.

The Hooterville of Petticoat Junction is 180 degrees from that of Green Acres.In the former show,it was a idealistic backwoods town.In the latter,it was a place where inmates ran the asylum.

It's the 30th dec 2023 and I've just completed the 11 season of mash and the movie good bye farewell amen

Paul Henning insisted on being the star & playing Jed. When they said no, he wanted to play Jethro. When they said no, he said he wanted to play Granny. Well, Irene Ryan beat the cwap out of him & left him on the floor a bloodied heap. Only then did he acquiesce, heh heh heh, TO BE THE WRITER, BEHIND THE SCENES!! UH HUH!!

The only character that appeared in every episode of M*A*S*H