Word: kramden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good deal different, but Gleason's new Honeymooners is a lot better-better, in fact, than any other comedy series on the air. Dressed up now and then with music and dancing, the adventures of gullible Brooklyn Bus Driver Ralph Kramden (Gleason) and goofy Sewer Worker Ed Norton (Art Carney) rock with a screwball spontaneity that puts the team in a class with the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy. At the same time, they are never so far out that the audience has the slightest trouble identifying them as a couple of ordinary likable slobs. "This...
...caught on like The Honeymooners, the ironically titled description of a Brooklyn couple who had been married for ten years and fighting for nine years and twelve months. It was broad, low-median but honest humor, perhaps the best situation comedy that has ever been on television. As Ralph Kramden. husband and bus driver. Gleason stared with massive malevolence at his mother-in-law and pounded the kitchen table, a big man with big gestures under a half-acre of black curls. He looked like a big basset hound who had just eaten W. C. Fields, his expression a melange...
...rank," wrote Novelist John O'Hara. "An artist puts his own personal stamp on all of his mature work, making his handling of his material uniquely his own. Millions of people who don't give a damn about art have been quick to recognize a creation. Ralph Kramden is a character that we might be getting from Mr. Dickens if he were writing...
With Art Carney as Ed Norton, the sewer worker. Joyce Randolph as Norton's wife and Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden, Gleason carried The Honeymooners out of Cavalcade and into the major leagues on CBS's The Jackie Gleason Show, always running nearly every aspect of the production himself, from set designing to bit-part bookings. He worked so hard that he sometimes had to be given oxygen on the set. In 1954 he broke his leg and ankle during a performance...