"So does a piece of shit!"
June 30, 2015 1:43 PM Subscribe
Comedian Jack Carter has died at the age of 93. The Comic's Comic site has some great clips, as well as a link to the Shit Jack Carter Says tumblr. Also this great anecdote: "William Morris sent Reggie Rose the screenwriter, you know. He came to one of our first meetings and said, 'A sketch has got to have a beginning, a middle and an end.' Larry Gelbart said, 'So does a piece of shit!' And that was the end of Reggie Rose."
Well, RIP and all, but that Shit Jack Carter Says site does him no favors.
posted by maxsparber at 1:54 PM on June 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by maxsparber at 1:54 PM on June 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Or, more properly, since that was Shit that Jack Carter said, he wasn't doing nobody no favors, least of all himself.
posted by maxsparber at 1:54 PM on June 30, 2015
posted by maxsparber at 1:54 PM on June 30, 2015
Norm Macdonald interviews Jack Carter.
posted by ryanshepard at 2:20 PM on June 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by ryanshepard at 2:20 PM on June 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Sure but Allen Ludden got to sleep with Betty White, a hot number since like forever.
posted by Freedomboy at 2:25 PM on June 30, 2015
posted by Freedomboy at 2:25 PM on June 30, 2015
Jack Carter on The Judy Garland Show, September 27th, 1963.
posted by fairmettle at 2:53 PM on June 30, 2015
posted by fairmettle at 2:53 PM on June 30, 2015
Well, RIP and all, but that Shit Jack Carter Says site does him no favors.
Try reading it with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's voice. It helps a lot.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 3:26 PM on June 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Try reading it with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's voice. It helps a lot.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 3:26 PM on June 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Mark Evanier on Jack Carter. He has become the go-to web source for dead Hollywood celebrities (since he has met so many of them), but this was unusual as one of the few people he'd met but didn't like much. (he also has a YouTube of a Tonight Show from the between-Jack-Paar-and-Johnny-Carson period, with Carter being interviewed by Jerry Lewis. Fascinating if not interesting.)
Try reading it with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's voice.
The common misconception is that Triumph stole Don Rickles' schtick. Nope, he was always much more Jack Carter.
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:45 PM on June 30, 2015
Try reading it with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's voice.
The common misconception is that Triumph stole Don Rickles' schtick. Nope, he was always much more Jack Carter.
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:45 PM on June 30, 2015
Albert Einstein stunk. Theory of relativity? They should have called it Theory of Incestivity.
Mother Teresa. I could name fifty actors she slept with.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 5:03 PM on June 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Mother Teresa. I could name fifty actors she slept with.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 5:03 PM on June 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Gandhi. Terrible. Just terrible. That hunger strike thing really bombed at the clubs. Toots Shoor was furious. Oh, you gotta do what you gotta do? You don't gotta do it here, pal! Go take a hike you should want some salt!
posted by Spatch at 8:25 PM on June 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Spatch at 8:25 PM on June 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
I am old enough to remember Jack Carter as a younger man. I always thought he was funny, but he did seem pretty harsh. Anyway, he will be missed as much as anyone I have not thought about in 20 years is missed when they die.
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posted by AugustWest at 8:48 PM on June 30, 2015
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posted by AugustWest at 8:48 PM on June 30, 2015
After Operation Mad Ball, I did Damn Yankees, starring Tony Perkins, at The Framingham Music Tent just outside of Boston. I read that Jack Carter was performing at a nearby nightclub. After my show, I went to see Jack’s club act. The beautiful and talented, Paula Stewart, Jack’s sweetheart at the time (Paula had been in Operation Mad Ball, too) was there. I sat with Paula during Jack’s show.
The place was packed. There was an opening act as I recall… Then Jack. Jack came on and did his first joke. Nothing. Nada. He quickly followed with another and another… and another… and another… Nothing. I’m beginning to get “flop-sweat.” Jack kept going like a juggernaut. Nothing. I looked at Paula, who seemed to be… unbothered. I was dying for poor Jack. Jack was plowing ahead… And sweating. The audience didn’t boo or anything like that. Quite a few were still eating their dinner. They were just… unresponsive. Finally, after an eternity, there came a laugh. Then another… And another… And another, rolling into an unstoppable wave. And, by the time Jack finished his show, the audience was exhausted from laughing so much. He got laughs like you’d want to put under your pillow to dream on. He must have told fifty or more jokes before one laugh. It was as if he had been fishing all day, not even getting one little nibble, and, suddenly, he was catching one after the other… As fast as he could bait and fish. Finally, he didn’t even need the bait… They just kept biting the hook. A boatload of fish. The turnaround was amazing… Simply, amazing. His boat was headed straight for the rocks, and suddenly, the doomed boat became an airplane, soaring off into the land of happy endings.
Jack Carter had to work much harder than Jackie Mason, but both got it done. With Jackie, it was easy. With Jack, I was worn out, but I had seen something akin to a miracle. ~ Brandon Maggart (from Bio)
posted by Lanark at 12:26 AM on July 1, 2015
The place was packed. There was an opening act as I recall… Then Jack. Jack came on and did his first joke. Nothing. Nada. He quickly followed with another and another… and another… and another… Nothing. I’m beginning to get “flop-sweat.” Jack kept going like a juggernaut. Nothing. I looked at Paula, who seemed to be… unbothered. I was dying for poor Jack. Jack was plowing ahead… And sweating. The audience didn’t boo or anything like that. Quite a few were still eating their dinner. They were just… unresponsive. Finally, after an eternity, there came a laugh. Then another… And another… And another, rolling into an unstoppable wave. And, by the time Jack finished his show, the audience was exhausted from laughing so much. He got laughs like you’d want to put under your pillow to dream on. He must have told fifty or more jokes before one laugh. It was as if he had been fishing all day, not even getting one little nibble, and, suddenly, he was catching one after the other… As fast as he could bait and fish. Finally, he didn’t even need the bait… They just kept biting the hook. A boatload of fish. The turnaround was amazing… Simply, amazing. His boat was headed straight for the rocks, and suddenly, the doomed boat became an airplane, soaring off into the land of happy endings.
Jack Carter had to work much harder than Jackie Mason, but both got it done. With Jackie, it was easy. With Jack, I was worn out, but I had seen something akin to a miracle. ~ Brandon Maggart (from Bio)
posted by Lanark at 12:26 AM on July 1, 2015
(he also has a YouTube of a Tonight Show from the between-Jack-Paar-and-Johnny-Carson period, with Carter being interviewed by Jerry Lewis. Fascinating if not interesting.)
The link above leads to part 1 of the show, however Carter doesn't appear until 7:30 of part 3.
posted by fairmettle at 4:17 AM on July 1, 2015
The link above leads to part 1 of the show, however Carter doesn't appear until 7:30 of part 3.
posted by fairmettle at 4:17 AM on July 1, 2015
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