These great questions and answers are from the days when ‘ Hollywood Squares’ game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now. Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions.
Q. Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?
A. Paul Lynde: Loneliness! (The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)
Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q. If you’re going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it…
Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
Q. You’ve been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That’s what’s been keeping me awake.
Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he’s married?
A. Rose Marie: No, wait until morning.
Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.
Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say ‘I Love You’?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.
Q. What are ‘Do It,’ ‘I Can Help,’ and ‘I Can’t Get Enough’?
A. George Gobel: I don’t know, but it’s coming from the next apartment.
Q.As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I’ll give you a gesture you’ll never forget.
Q. Paul, why do Hell’s Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.
Q. Charley, you’ve just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I’m too busy growing strawberries.
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Yes, HS was hysterical sometimes. TV was so much better back then. Nowadays if doesnt have fowl language in every sentence and something isn't blowing up and people aren't killing gruesomely and then these other people aren't taking the law into their own hands, it probably isn't on TV.
Have yourself a perfect day! big hugs x0x0
I watched this show often because it was so entertaining. 🙂
Yeppers!!!
Yeppers indeed Mike. 🙂
the first one and Don Knott's answers are my favorite, but these all had me giggling. Good find. Thanks for sharing them.
The loneliness one was the very best one ever. 🙂
Funny! Jokes back then were a little on the corny side, I've noticed. But at least they didn't have the profanity of today. And it doesn't surprise me the responses are scripted now. I think comedians walk around with writers on full-time staff, scripting everything they say throughout the day!
I don't care for all the profanity either. Not necessary. 🙂
This was one of my mother's favorite game shows. Paul Lynde and Charlie Weaver were two of the funniest people ever. The entire cast was great. Too bad that producers now think that celebrities can't think for themselves. But, maybe most of them can't.
Come to think of it, everything is scripted because they don't want to risk saying anything politically incorrect and offending some one. They might lose a sponsor, and we just can't have that, now can we? 🙂
Most of them can't think for themselves is right. 🙁
The politically correct folks are killing free speech, but that's the point. 🙁
Oh my God. How I loved watching that show. You could be guaranteed 30 minutes of laughter. The comedians of today only want to swear in their jokes. Oh well that's life.
Have a wonderful Tuesday Sandee. See ya.
Cruisin Paul
Yes, they were all very funny folks. 🙂
That was one of my favorite shows too. Very very funny. You and Zane and Little Bit have a great Day Sandee.
I wasn't much for game shows, but I sure enjoy this one. 🙂
That was a funny show back in its day as perfectly illustrated by these Q & A's.
Yes, good clean fun for the entire family. 🙂
The old show may not have been scripted, but there was discussion before the taping about the subject matter that was going to be asked.
There would have had to be some discussion indeed. 🙂
that show had me in stiches,I always enjoyed Charlie Weavers antics as well.
He was indeed a funny man. I think all of them were fabulous. 🙂
I loved this show. The early, non-scripted one. All of those old shows that were simply about having fun.
There were indeed to simply have fun and we did. 🙂
Hahaha! I used to watch that show when I was a kid but it's all different reading those now! Loved the old game shows!
Happy Cinco de Mayo Sandee! Scritches to Little Bit!
The kids didn't get the snide remarks. Very clean fun.
Happy Cinco de Mayo to you too. 🙂
LOL brilliant but Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather? was the best comeback lmao
Have a quiptastic day Sandee :-h
Paul was my favorite of all of them. He just had a way about him. 🙂
Heeheehee! Those are fabulous!
Yes they are. Some funny people were on that show. 🙂
Hilarious Sandee. I really laughed at the Hell's Angels one. I could do a comic with some of these
You could Tony. Why don't you? 🙂
some great old timers listed there that the young peeps probably never heard of! Have a great rest of your day! xoxo
So true Caren. I was born in 1951 so I knew all these folks. 🙂
Jen's Guy was home for lunch and we read these together. We were laughing so hard we were worried we would wake up the baby!
This show was so funny. The other half I'm posting on Thursday. 🙂
thanks for the hilarious answers! Cheers!
You're most welcome Kathe. 🙂
All of these brought back memories that made me guffaw (MMG?). I grew up watching this stuff and can remember all of these characters that could tell a double entendre like nobody's business and the kids in the audience were left clueless. They could tell a dirty joke without it being profane. A far jump from what we have nowadays. I miss all of those guys.
I was left clueless, but my parents knew. 🙂
I remember that show and some of those answers were hysterical
Yes they were Ann. 🙂
These are hilarious! I do remember watching a few shows. Really funny stuff.
Big hugs, honey…
Very funny stuff. Good clean fun back in the day. 🙂
Lol. Loved Charlie Weaver. He was funny!
Yes he was. Very funny. 🙂
Don answer's made me laugh out loud 🙂 can I watch this on youtube you think? It's hilarious!!!
Yes you can watch Hollywood Squares on YouTube. There are lots of them. 🙂
Those are funny. We used to watch this when I was a kid, I can see the people's faces in my mind while reading what your wrote! 🙂
Some funny folks back in the day and no vulgar language either. 🙂
Those are a lot of fun. I remember many of them. c-)
Yes they were Odie. I've watched a bunch of them on YouTube the last few days. 🙂
I remember watching the show many years ago when those people were on. It was pretty funny back then.
It was funny indeed Binky. 🙂