He then began doing regular stand up comedy in New York City supper clubs and in the Catskills (I believe I saw him in to Poconos). I can relate to that.īuddy joined the Army and met a Chinese waiter from which he took one of his famous early stand up characters. He also tried playing for the football team but stepped in a water bucket during his first game and everyone laughed at him.
#BUDDY HACKETT MOVIE#
All the best comedy talents in show business were called together to create a completely wacko movie that people have since tried to duplicate and failed.Īccording to what I read at the Barnes & Noble website, Buddy Hackett was not a very good performer in high school where he appeared in school pageants and forgot his lines. His appearance in the classic movie " It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" was one of the highlights of a film that is one of my favorites of all time. After a while I realized he was really funny and the kind of guy you could watch and laugh without thinking about serious things that make you sad. In his films he was always the comedic relief or the one you had to wonder about. Buddy used to say that he was born to be funny and that was what he had going for him.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York and his father worked in the upholstery gig. He seems like he is an overgrown goofy kid not right in the head which at the time was not yet a key to comedy. When he came out he kept me wondering when the comedian was going to come on because I thought he was just the warm up act. He had a reputation among his fellow comics as a brilliant ad-libber and someone who knew exactly how far to take a joke before it ran its course, something not all comedians managed to do.īuddy Hackett died at age 78 of natural causes at his beach house in Malibu, CA, on June 30, 2003.Buddy Hackett was always an acquired taste because I remember going to see him a long time ago. However, despite his success in movies, he still preferred his nightclub work and played Las Vegas and clubs in other cities whenever possible. Hackett took the part that Costello was playing (an eerie coincidence considering that more than 20 years later he would actually play Costello in the movie Bud and Lou (1978)) and O'Brian took Abbott's place, but the film was not successful and Universal dropped its plans to make a team out of the two. In 1954, Hackett was paired by Universal Pictures with Hugh O'Brian as a potential comedy team to replace the studio's reigning team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, They actually did replace the famous team in the film Fireman Save My Child (1954), due to Costello's illness (Bud and Lou can still be glimpsed in long shots).
#BUDDY HACKETT SERIES#
However, contrary to his nightclub image, Hackett's appearances in films were mostly of the family type, such as his roles in the "Herbie" series of comedies for Disney about a Volkswagen Bug with a mind of its own and as Robert Preston's sidekick in The Music Man (1962). Hackett's act was noted for its, at the time, "adult" content, and at one point he was sued by a woman who attended one of his shows and said she was "shocked and offended" at the language (she lost the suit). He, along with Lenny Bruce, pioneered "blue" comedy, although Hackett's career did not suffer nearly as much as Bruce's did because of it. Hackett always referred to himself as a "saloon comic" and preferred the intimacy of his stage act-where he would often bring members of the audience up on stage with him-to films and television. Brooklyn-born Buddy Hackett was known mainly as a nightclub comic, especially in Las Vegas, where he first performed in 1952 and wound up being one of the biggest headliners in that city's history.
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