Here's Lucy BLOOPERS

[@maestroclassico5801]

As a kid I found Gale Gordon to be the funniest "straight man" foil in all Television

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Gale Gordon was a highly talented actor!

[@David-955]

Loved Vivian saying "My ass!" 😂😂😂

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

You hear something like that on T.V. everyday now but back in the day that was a shocker even if it remained on the cutting room floor!

[@paulsarnik8506]

Vivian Williams or Vance Frawley???😮. 🤓😎✌🏼

[@David-955]

@@paulsarnik8506 Really I mean Ethel Mertz!

[@bejoyful]

From all the interviews; people said Lucy rehearsed to perfection and was a hard task master; it looked like fun working with her.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

You can tell she's a perfectionist. A lot of highly successful people like her are very detailed. Lucy was great at so many things like acting, singing and dancing. It's just amazes me how she did it all! Add that to the fact she had two kids and the first one was born when she was almost 40.

[@user-ko7bb5kh4i]

Lucille Ball was a talented, confident woman who didn't take shit from anyone. Right on, Lucy! 😊

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

@@user-ko7bb5kh4i The best comment I have heard about Lucy so far!

[@honeycone71]

The last clip with Vivian Vance had me dying. So not what you'd expect to hear🤣

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Common today but you didn't here things like that on television then!

[@RJS1974]

This is how she and Lucy talked in real life. She knew they needed to do another take so she was just having fun. These women were what was known as bawdy broads back in the day. They smoked, drank and swore and were not like their tv characters.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

@@RJS1974 "Bawdy Broads" would be a great T.V. show title, indy band name or roller derby team name!

[@billhosko7723]

The sets and clothes... top of the line for the time. Just beautiful production all around. THANK YOU for posting! Cheers

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Hey those sets and clothes still look good to me today!

[@nightstalkerck]

Lucy must have been so proud of her kids, desi jr. was so adorable.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

The family business was comedy!

[@toddfogle4482]

Not Here’s Lucy but these are the Lucy Show. You can tell with the set.

[@hardren101]

The start is the "The Lucy show", at 4:37 is Here's Lucy.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

It's a mix but it's all still Lucy!

[@wolfwind1]

This was wonderful to see. Thank you.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Lucy was the best!

[@mitrahadjiagha5860]

Bloopers???…I thought this was the real show!!!😂🤣Just kidding. Loved Lucill Ball and the whole cast.❤❤❤

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

You know you've got a hit comedy show when folks can't distinguish the bloopers from the regular acting!

[@UncleAuthor]

Very fun clips. Looks like some were Lucy Show too, when she calls Gordon “Mr. Mooney.”

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

You are correct! Here's Lucy and the Lucy Show.

[@robertr9149]

Always Lucy!! Thanks...hoping to see her London special too. Thanks.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Lucy is the definition of a one in a lifetime talent!

[@cagottlieb7418]

What London special?

[@edreid7872]

Technically it is both Here’s Lucy and The Lucy Show, but I’ll take it..😂

[@TMcConnaughhay]

This is from The Lucy Show!

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Some of it.

[@darrylthomas2664]

I ❤ Lucy ‼

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

We all love Lucy!

[@darrylthomas2664]

@@JackNtheVideoBox I grew up watching her, & even turned other individuals who didn't have a clue as to who Lucille Ball was. But they were apparently living under a Rock.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

@@darrylthomas2664 It's our job to inform the young folks about all the great comedic minds of the past like Lucille Ball and The Three Stooges. We have to roll back the rock in front of their Netflix cave and show them what restaurant quality classic comedy entertainment is all about!

[@darrylthomas2664]

@@JackNtheVideoBox So True

[@lightningbug276]

Loved seeing the kids

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Lucy was almost 40 when she had her first baby.

[@hardren101]

Lucie guested, a few times on "The Lucy Show (Desi Jr was busy with his band, "Dino, Desi & Billy", which became pretty popular and even had a few hit singles. Ball ended 'The Lucy Show" at the end of one TV season and returned at the start of the very next TV season with her children in "Here's Lucy which premiered at the top of the ratings.

[@thefonzkiss]

The entire show was a blooper.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Yes it was!

[@Bgz8890s]

I wouldn't go that far, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy were nowhere near the abomination that was Life With Lucy.

[@thefonzkiss]

@@Bgz8890s True.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

@@Bgz8890s I thought Lucy and Gale Gordon were o.k. on that show but the rest of the cast was...I guess abomination is as good a word as any.

[@dabble778]

Lucy Show maybe? Mr Mooney here, not Uncle Harry. Thanks for the upload btw 😅

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

It's "Here's Lucy". The series co-starred her long-time comedy partner Gale Gordon and her real-life children Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. It was broadcast on CBS from 1968 to 1974. It was Ball's third network sitcom, following I Love Lucy (1951-57) and The Lucy Show (1962-68).

[@tggfriends92]

I think it’s both…? 😊

[@ZacharyMartinez957]

@@tggfriends92It is both!

[@sesamemaniac855]

@@ZacharyMartinez957 Both, if Gale is wearing a bow tie, It's The Lucy Show, if he's wearing a neck tie, it's Here's Lucy

[@michaelstacey8303]

Uncle Harry is there also

[@justimagine2403]

Were her kids on the show! Wow.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

...and she didn't even start having kids until she was almost 40!

[@JonCampos-kh2bw]

I heard she was very difficult to work with and even Richard Burton couldn’t stand her.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Richard Burton was so great! He was filled with liquid courage quite often though.

[@zzzbbbooo]

Richard Burton couldn't stand anybody. Lucy had discipline and was a perfectionist. Burton didn't like that but it was HER SHOW.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

@@zzzbbbooo Lucy probably drove Richard Burton to drink...waitaminute, it was probably Richard Burton that did that.

[@helenweinfeld5689]

The caption should state: "Here are Lucy Bloopers."

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

I may change it to: "Here is some of them thar Lucy Bloopers".

[@michaelblevins565]

Not all these bloopers are from HERE'S LUCY a few are from THE LUCY SHOW.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

You are correct!

[@wildforthecats661]

Some of these are from “The Lucy Show.”

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Yes. They are.

[@SaxonC]

This was from The Lucy

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Some.

[@paulsarnik8506]

Fred Mertz as it could have been🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎✌🏼🥰Lucy

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Fred Mertz was born in 1887!

[@RJS1974]

Lucy seems looser on the set than the stories about her being uptight and mean. She seems to laugh at herself and is not mad when other actors mess up.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

I'd guess Lucy was a Girl Boss back in the day when a Girl Boss was highly unusual!

[@rr7firefly]

People laughed at anything apparently. And they laughed heartily (probably to keep their jobs as extras)

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Just like everybody involved today with Saturday Night Live.

[@TJD63]

Talented person! One thing though to me is no show of Lucy's ever captured the same experience as I love Lucy. Here's Lucy and the Lucy show, and just my opinion, we're beneath her talent. They were too silly and whiny. I think she would have been great in a really well written comedy show. I feel like the latter shows she did were just not great. Again just my opinion. And btw they say she was difficult to work with. I know I saw youtube clips of Lucy on Dinah and also tonight show. I found her a bit brisk at times. Hard to explain but I expected something different. She wasn't rude at all, just, well, abrasive.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

"I Love Lucy" was the best show by far. It probably had the most money and talent behind the scenes producing it.

[@yamil.343]

She was honest & didn’t suffer fools. A strong woman, hence called difficult especially in those days.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

@@yamil.343 It was rare for a female to be running the show back then. Lucy did it!

[@stevev2492]

Her actual personality was the complete opposite of her screen personality.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

...and that really shows in this video! Lucy was the boss that ran the show. She didn't play!

[@maestroclassico5801]

Absolutely. She said in an interview that Desi had always been "the boss" and that having to step into that role was difficult but she managed eventually.

[@David-955]

Acting! 👏

[@maestroclassico5801]

Other than she WAS a bit self deprecating on screen as well as real life but she knew Comedy staging. I actually wished that she couldve cussed a bit more on TV in the 60s.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

@@maestroclassico5801 Not a lot of cussin' on the tube back in the 60s! The FCC was tight in those days.

[@CookingWithCarmelo]

Please rename it "The Lucy Show" and "Here's Lucy" Bloopers. Thank you. Just to let you know the difference in the shows.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

I know the difference in the shows. Thank you.

[@juliemcarthur3004]

How come Dick Clark never found these

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

They probably released this footage during New Year's and Dick was really busy.

[@jackbuckley7816]

I think there was a time, back in the late 70's but mostly in the 80's, I believe, where seeing unaired or edited-out bloopers from popular TV series & movies from over the years, suddenly became all the rage, a cultural fad. A number of TV specials were done featuring these mistakes. In fact, a regular TV series began airing on a weekly basis---wasn't it jointly hosted by Dick Clark & Ed McMahon? I don't recall how many seasons it stayed on the air but I think the show did well in the ratings. I don't know why this societal craving for bloopers became such a huge thing but it did. I recall Bob Hope, who still had his regular specials on NBC in that era, presented one that was based entirely on a collection of bloopers from his past specials, featuring, of course, a limitless number of guest stars over many decades. The bloopers craze eventually faded(mercifully!) but for awhile there it seemed everyone was doing them. Anyone have a theory as to what was behind this silly fad?

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Bloopers are just like "America's Funniest Home Videos". The legit ones were funny. After they became popular Bloopers and funny home videos were staged.

[@user-kf8wb2cq4f]

Was Lucille Ball gruff and pushy in real life?

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

I bet Lucy wasn't a pushover!

[@bryanspindle4455]

I heard in real life she was very serious. She always said she wasn't funny that it was all the writers who made her funny.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

@@bryanspindle4455 Lucy had natural comedic charisma and good writers really make a sitcom. It was nice of her to give the proper credit to all the writers she worked with over the years.

[@bryanspindle4455]

@@JackNtheVideoBox Yes. She was fearless when it came to doing anything that the writers wrote for her. She was great at physical comedy and had flawless timing and great delivery and reactions. As l am sure you know Jess Openhiemer and Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carrol wrote most of her scripts on I Love Lucy.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

@@bryanspindle4455 I'm of the opinion that anytime there is a writer's strike that late night comedy show hosts get exposed the most. It's like a night and day difference.

[@heatherbowman9450]

27 likes😊

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

That's a lotta likes!

[@user-vr6xm8lm1o]

In her program “ I Love Lucy” , she should NOT have had a cigarette sponsor at all, you’ll notice how different her voice became from the 1950s, and then into the 1960s - that is from years of chain smoking. Now Gloria Swanson; she is older than Lucy , listen to her voice in” Sunset Boulevard” and then 25 years later in “ Airport 1975”, because she doesn’t smoke at all, her voice is the same , no change at all … 😮

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

It seemed like everyone smoked back in those days. Smoking is horrible for your voice and overall health there is no doubt about that.

[@bleepiestofbloops]

Her voice was always naturally lower than Lucy Ricardo's voice, and she primarily blew out her voice doing Wildcat. Smoking doesn't suddenly shift your voice that much in two years. Even on this show, she's still projecting and straining her voice. If you listen to interviews or her radio show from the '60s, you can her natural smoother voice. She's basically talk-singing here in 1953, and you can hear that she sounds pretty much the same when using her natural voice, minus the wear. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3S3iqJplK6dZ7csi=hAm9dnw4sDhBhiOY

[@netram28]

It wasn't just smoking that ruined Lucy's voice. When I Love Lucy ended, Lucy spent nearly a year performing in a Broadway musical called Wildcat. It wasn't a very good show and she tried too hard to put it over with her untrained singing voice. Doing this eight shows a week for months caused her to develop nodes on her vocal cords. By the time she returned to TV with The Lucy Show, her damaged voice had grown permanently lower and raspier.

[@letshaveacuppa_official]

Smoking was the big thing back then. They didn’t realize what damage it can do to you. However, when they put the warning labels on the cigarettes, people didn’t care and still smoked anyway and still do to this day.

[@cagottlieb7418]

Also, menopause causes the voice to go deeper in some people.

[@toddfogle4482]

Some of these are Here’s Lucy scenes, sorry. You are combining scenes.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

True.

[@maestroclassico5801]

The Lucy Show....not Here's Lucy

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

Mr. Theodore J. Mooney.

[@maestroclassico5801]

​​@@JackNtheVideoBox Yup. And on Here's Lucy he played her brother in law (and still boss) Harrison "Harry" Carter. Lucy WANTED Gale to play Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy (apparently they never liked Bill Frawley) but he had other commitments. Actually there are some HERE'S LUCY clips here as well.....I misspoke.

[@carollund8251]

Here's Lucy scenes start about halfway.

[@jackbuckley7816]

I'm hesitant to watch these, as I don't want the smooth artistry of the series' episodes to be seen as in any way imperfect. Seeing the cast stepping out of character plus the sometimes prolonged & extraneous silliness that results, including that of the guest stars. A few bloopers go a long way. I feel the same way about any beloved series of mine, I just find it spoils the illusion more than I'd like. Seeing such, though, DOES go toward my question about how bloopers were handled while filming before live audiences---seems it would've spoiled the magic for them, too. And I wonder what the audiences thought when the episode they witnessed in-person eventually aired? Would've been months later, I know, & their memories could be faulty, but knowing where the mistakes were, would this lessen the episode's appeal for them when it aired? And how long were the taping sessions in front of the audiences? With inevitable bloopers, mistakes, & technical issues delaying everything, seems like the audiences could be there until late into the night. I'd really like to know!

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

At least these were legit bloopers. Saturday Night Live is just one big blooper gimmick. Rehearsed, pre-prepared bloopers are the worst. It's interesting to see how serious, on point, and business like Lucille Ball is behind the scenes. She was very protective of her children for sure. Notice that Lucy wants to keep the camera rolling with quick retakes. I'm sure she was a stickler for time and aware of wearing out an audience.

[@jackbuckley7816]

@@JackNtheVideoBox Yes, I did notice her technical mastery. These bloopers are amusing & it's a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse of a very popular, long-running show which I've been re-discovering in recent years. Her 2 series of the 60's, going into the 70's, were far superior to anything on the air today. Another interesting point is that famous stars of the caliber Ms. Ball used as guests, skillfully interlaced with an episode's premise, no longer exist. There simply are no famous stars today, whose numbers back then seemed almost limitless. Though I've seen only a few episodes so far, I've noticed the scripts were tailored to the guests' talents, allowing them to be seen in the best light. I watched one awhile back that featured Don Knotts. It was a very funny premise & he played a character not his real self---but the character was designed as very Knotts-like. It worked beautifully!

[@stephenr3910]

I'm guessing the audience already had a feel that they were watching something being created in real time. There were pauses for costume changes. Lucy kept the musical performers on the set in her later series's too. And Gary warmed up the audiences with standup. I read that "I Love Lucy" was such a well oiled machine that it took only 2 hours to film an episode.

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

@@stephenr3910 Desi and Lucy, together in their primes, are still the #1 all-time sitcom King and Queen.

[@jackbuckley7816]

@@stephenr3910 Thank you. Very helpful!

[@BruceAlarie]

bad audio

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

...but good video!

[@regannem]

Wish there were bloopers/outtakes/behind the scenes footage of Yours, Mine and Ours. 🥲

[@JackNtheVideoBox]

The blooper combination of Lucy and Henry Fonda would be hilarious!