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Who was the Cross Eyed - Wild Hair comedian




Who was the crazy cross Eyed - wild balding hair comedian who would interrupt Gleason's monologues?

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If you a referring to the comic actor who appeared in the earlier B&W version of the Jackie Gleason Show on Cavalcade of Stars, I believe his name is Leo Guarnieri. I have seen him on Gleason sketches on YouTube, one (undated) with Reggie Van Gleason as a detective trying to solve the 'murder' of victim Guarnieri (he turns out to be alive) and another, on 8 Sep 50, playing (in drag) Fatima, girlfriend to Gleason's Sheik Ben Shisk-Ka-Bob. I believe on that same episode, Guarnieri appears as a Neighbor Lady to Gleason's The Bachelor.
He does indeed fit the description of wild/cross eyed, balding, skinny, and just plain homely!

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Doesn't ring a bell. And it would have been a later show like the Miami ones perhaps. Couldn't find a Google image on Guarnieri and IMDB lists only that show you mentioned and a Morey Amsterdam show. Thanks.

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Frank Fontaine aka Crazy Guggenheim?

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