60 Minutes: Jackie Gleason

[@asmodeus0454]

Jackie Gleason is the classic example of the old show business adage that if you can play comedy, you can play anything. As well as being a great comedian and comedic actor, he was a truly great dramatic actor. He was an extraordinarily talented man.

[@dapperdonny4051]

He was a genius, with a photographic memory, although he was not formally educated. He could act, compose lyrics for his “mood music”

[@jamming8519]

Life will only give you one Jackie Gleason!

[@rosemariemello6675]

He lived his best life...RIP sir...Loved Ralph

[@martinhonan9588]

I remember watching this as a teenager and have always remembered that interview. Especially the end. Classic!

[@bubbastill2040]

Morley:"The Great One,did you ever believe it?" Jackie:"You just saw me shoot pool didn't ya?" LOL! RIP Jackie Gleason and Morley Safer

[@coophandluke3697]

Mee 2

[@linapagliari8003]

Love jackie gleason a great classy talented gentleman 🙏🏻🌺🇨🇦loved this interview he was so honest and forthcoming one of the greats old Hollywood gone too soon🌺🙏🏻

[@michaellazzeri2069]

My Dad, also a man of " The Greatest Generation " , LOVED Jackie Gleason. My Brother & I grew up to " The Honeymooners " , & the music that bore his name. I too, own 8 CD's of Gleason's music. And, when Gleason passed, Dad truly did mourn . Now, i too, am a fan of " The Great One " .-----MJL< 76 y/o

[@davidvenesky9053]

We had one, two, maybe 15 drinks...LMAO.

[@TOMCAT5.5149]

I love this guy...

[@anthonyintravio8272]

My childhood is very similar to Jackie Gleason’s. My father Joe walked out on me & my mother Olivia when I was 12 years old back in 1984 and then my mother had no experience at working, soon got a job as a seamstress in a sweater factory. I had an older sister named Maria died in 1976 at 7 years old from Tuberculosis. Then in April 16th, 1991 my mom who was only 37 years old died from appendicitis. I was 18 years old & also had no family. I didn’t know any of my father’s side of his family. I survived & I’ve been on my own in the world for 30 years since then.

[@9999bigb]

Same here. Dad left when I was 4 years old, left my mom and me on our own in a tough neighborhood. Mom ended up starting as a cashier to becoming Vice President of her company, so I had a pretty good life as a kid. But it still stings how my birth father wasn't there for me. I taught myself how to shave, how to fight, how to ride a bike. All that stuff.

[@hackbritton3233]

And how are you doing now.

[@xoxoxoxoxo7997]

Only a small handful of people make /made me laugh and he is at the top 😂❤️ 39 amazing episodes

[@sailingsam3815]

Jackie Gleason has lots of soul...great comedian but also a natural dramatic actor...and so likeable.😊😮

[@rentcda]

"The train was a bar!" Lol What a legend!

[@jimmcfarland269]

"Orson Wells called me The Great One first. And then Lucy started to call me that. And uhhh I'm really not offended by it!" Mic (cue stick) drop and walks out... ;) NOTHING else to say but that he was indeed, THE GREAT ONE!!!

[@allenjones3130]

Rest in peace, Jackie.

[@kingpuppo5880]

The great one

[@dapperdonny4051]

Jackie Gleason had a good life once he became a television star in the early fifties, before that, he did have a hard life.

[@bubbastill2040]

I saw this when it first aired when I was 19,I remember the Miami show and have been a fan of Jackie's for 50+ years (I look more and more like him with each passing year lol).As someone in the music biz and a writer too,I also share Jackie's view of the entertainment establishment.They want your fear, your unquestioning subservience,and your soul (kinda like the government lol).Good luck to them trying to get mine.................

[@karlhungus5554]

Air Date: October 28, 1984

[@mirandavinci4146]

I was only 5 months old when this aired

[@thamnophisrex5895]

I was 3.

[@DrJ-hx7wv]

The greatest of all time.

[@lynnmcculloch-m4h]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@lynnmcculloch-m4h]

Amen !

[@angelas.9717]

He was 68 years old here...rough living, man.

[@damiens6465]

“He’s a lousy husband”??? Morley you Dummy….. Also so glad you kept the commercials!

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

"How sweettttt it issss" 😅

[@dapperdonny4051]

Jackie lived larger than life.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

❤❤💚😊

[@thamnophisrex5895]

I remember the day he died; they had a Honeymooners marathon on TV.

[@jamesanthony5681]

"There are executives who have a great talent and that talent is to say yes that sounds like no, or no that sounds like yes." Ain't that the truth. And not just in show business.

[@jasonnstegall]

Here’s a thought: Ralph Kramden is basically a grownup Charlie Brown of Peanuts. Both keep losing, both keep trying (and in Alice, you sort of have a version of Lucy Van Pelt).

[@mirandavinci4146]

I wonder what Jackie's fears and insecurities were because I know that even though comedians seem happy on the outside, on the inside it's not all it's cracked up to be

[@curtissengland]

As an actor in training, all you really had to do was watch Gleason and you learn.

[@coophandluke3697]

Nobody could have played Fats any better!!

[@nicecutie]

jackie gleason lived life on his terms or like frank said, "i did it my way"

[@davidvenesky9053]

I feel like I am watching a ghost. Actually I am ! Lol

[@mesropmadzharyan6727]

The train is the bar lol .

[@waltercasas3124]

15:00-16:00. Best part of the interview

[@joeblow4566]

If there's a heaven and a hell certainly everybody's fear is not making Heaven who wants to go to hell rest in peace Mr Gleason

[@racheledwards2352]

My uncle looked a lot like Jackie Gleason

[@davidvenesky9053]

WTF? How can you smoke 5 packs a day?

[@racheledwards2352]

My uncle did. Unfiltered cigarettes

[@bubbastill2040]

As a sometimes smoker of cigarettes,cigars and pipes (tobacco and otherwise),5 packs a day would be work,too much work for me LOL!

[@rosemariemello6675]

They worked hard back then and played hard ...Loved those times

[@JRAHIT]

I lived on Moffat Street one block over from Chauncey back in the late 80’s early 90’s. It was a black neighborhood by then, but it’s cool to know I lived where The Great One is from.

[@kylelemery9134]

You could smoke everywhere back then. People just smoked all day everyday.

[@ericstenzel6835]

Negative: Ralph and Archie HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON. And thank goodness for that.

[@mesropmadzharyan6727]

How do u even literally smoke 5 packs ?.

[@blakeh6250]

Crazy one right after another.

[@patricezappa-porter5011]

i had a friend that smoked 3 packs a day, she smoked a pack before even getting out of bed

[@jasonmaravelias6692]

My grandma and her siblings smoked 3-5 packs a day. They did it!

[@woodrowcall3269]

That’s what you got out of this interview ?

[@InChristalone737]

All have sinned and fall short of the will of God. Repentance and trusting Jesus Christ as the One who took the penalty for our sins is the ONLY way to heaven

[@tex959]

Repentance is a work unless God is causing the repentance, then in that case why would you be asking for anyone to do anything if God was the one doing the thing (repentance) On the other hand, if repentance requires some work; then, your name would seem to be a contradiction

[@1958yankeefan]

I don’t see ANY similarity between Ralph Kramden and Archie Bunker!

[@hapgood22]

Both Archie and Ralph were big mouths and were not that bright, but that's where the similarities end. Ralph Kramden was not a bigot.