June 13, 2008 11:48 am
Matt Tobey
Matt Tobey
Paul Lynde was a bawdy old queen long before it was cool to be a bawdy old queen. He was on Bewitched and in a bunch of movies, but he's best remembered as the center square on the old Hollywood Squares, where he regularly displayed his knack for hilarious double entendres and saucy wise-cracks. Lynde died 26 years ago, but would've been 82 today. Here's a recent SNL clip featuring Fred Armisen as a character clearly modeled after him:
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It's a weird sketch. I think Armisen is doing an amalgam of Lynde and Reilly.
odd….looks like hes doing charles nelson riley…who was the regular queen on match game…did lynde ever do that show ?