Here's a clip of Jackie Gleason from the early '60s, portraying Stanley R. Sogg, huckster host of a local TV station's late-night motion picture, sponsored by Mother Fletcher products. Add the props, the girls, the film jokes, the shifty commercials, and Jackie's leering persona and there's the same pot of gold funding Johnny Carson's hilarious "Tea Time Movie" sketches for decades to come.
The cheesy appearances of Art Fern were the comedy highlight of the Carson "Tonight Show," but without Gleason there never would have been this fork in the road.
Mmmm, sham wows, friends...
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