When I grow up, I want to be just like Paul Lynde!

[Deja Q]

Oh come now, who doesn't love the guy?

[JohnKleeb]

1. Who is this guy, this person asks

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Aim a little higher.

Harvey Fierstein, perhaps?

[Trajan]

3. Dead ? ...

ehem ....

Paul Lynde was very funny .... and has been missed ....

[Booberdawg]

4. I loved Paul Lynde too

Very funny

[joeybee12]

5. I've been told I'm Paul Lynde's and Joan Rivers' love child

I don't think it was meant as a compliment!

Best middle square ever!!!!!!!!!!!

[Deja Q]

6. Impossible!

Forget the fact of "who would want to do it with Joan Rivers", Paul's bread isn't buttered that way, if you know what I mean! ;-)

[joeybee12]

16. Think turkey baster

With modern technology, anything's possible!

[Skittles]

7. Paul Lynde in Bewitched

do you remember any scenes with Endora? Freaking CLASSIC man. :D

[phaseolus]

8. I idolized him when I was a kid...

...which I'm certain worried my mom a lot, even though I was destined to end up a straight guy. I admired him, not only because he was hilarious, but because he was obviously not cut from the same cloth as yer typical role model. From birth onward I appreciated people who took a different path.

[roughsatori]

9. He was a more natural rebel then James Dean or Elvis

He was Hilarious, subversive, and transgressive. How could I not love him.

[kskiska]

10. I saw a Biography of Lynde on TV

He was not a happy man. In later life he was quite miserable. His drinking caused him to be fired from the Hollywood Squares. He could be quite mean and hurtful.

Yet, in spite of (or perhaps because of) his visibility and immense popularity, Lynde was fiercely closeted during his lifetime, and even known to denigrate gay audiences as a whole. Moreover, despite the campy, bitchy comic image he displayed to the public, Lynde was a very tormented individual troubled by chronic alcoholism, weight problems, and loneliness.

http://www.glbtq.com/arts/lynde_p.html

[tarkus]

11. Do you mean Par Lindh (or something), the Scandinavian progger? nt

[cosmicdot]

12. He was Herman Munster's doctor, Dr. Dudley, too

I saw him in a summer stock production many moons ago ... he showed up at a Gay club later



The real start of Paul Lynde's highly successful stage and career perhaps came when he won a good spot in the revue "New Faces of 1952," a smashing success which led him to lead comedy parts in the stage version and later the screen production of "Bye Bye Birdie."

there was a actress/comedian who emerged via the New Faces Broadway show with Paul ... she was like a female version of him ... Alice Ghostley, Esmerelda in Bewitched ... Paul was Uncle Arthur.

I'll take Paul Lynde to block ...

Peter Marshall: Paul, can you get an elephant drunk?
Paul Lynde: Yes, but he still won't go up to your apartment.

Peter Marshall: If the right part comes along, will George C. Scott do a nude scene?
Paul Lynde: You mean he doesn't have the right part?

Peter Marshall: Will a goose help warn you if there's an intruder on your property?
Paul Lynde: There's no better way!

Peter Marshall: In "Alice in Wonderland", who kept crying "I'm late, I'm late?"
Paul Lynde: Alice, and her mother is sick about it.

Peter Marshall: According to Tony Randall, "Every woman I've been intimate with in my life has been..." What?
Paul Lynde: Bitterly disappointed.

Peter Marshall: Diamonds should not be kept with your family jewels, why?
Paul Lynde: They're so cold!

Peter Marshall: What is a pullet?
Paul Lynde: A little show of affection...

Peter Marshall: In the Middle Ages, Paul, people in convents were not allowed to eat beans because they believed something about them we now know isn't true. What?
Paul Lynde: Well, I know they took a vow of silence...

Peter Marshall: Paul, Snow White...was she a blonde or a brunette?
Paul Lynde: Only Walt Disney knows for sure...

Peter Marshall: Promethius was tied to the top of a mountain by the gods because he had given something to man. What did he give us?
Paul Lynde: I don't know what you got, but I got a sports shirt.

Peter Marshall: When Richard Nixon was Vice-President, he went someplace on a "good will mission," but instead wound up being stoned and shouted at. Where did this take place?
Paul Lynde: Pat's room .

[VOX]

13. Center square to block?

:toast:

[Palacsinta]

14. Depressed? Think of Paul Lynde singing.........

"Kids" from "Bye-Bye Birdie". That voice! That look!...... when he spits out "Kiiiiiidddddddddssssss!" in that nasal whine! It'll cheer you right up!

[Nlighten1]

15. Paul Lynde was hilarious

Sure do miss him.

[Kahuna]

17. He was very miserable and an alchoholic in his

personal life. But he did have a great public persona. He was very beloved.