OT- It's a mad, mad, mad, mad World on TCM Now

[Knight Shift]

For those needing comic relief--and some could use it.

 

[brodo]

For those needing comic relief--and some could use it.

I'm going to just relax under the big "W."

 

[shields]

Love Jonathan Winters when he destroys the gas station.

 

[Turtle31]

So many classic bit parts and cameos, like Jim Backus and the three stooges

 

[RUMountie]

Classic !

 

[SkilletHead2]

Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams! Great movie!

 

[e5fdny]

Love Jonathan Winters when he destroys the gas station.

When I was a little boy I thought my Dad died from laughing too hard when he watched that part of the movie.

Over the past few years I've been telling my younger guys to watch this when it comes on when we're at work. Always get a, "Thanks boss! That movie was hilarious!" afterwards.

 

[RUhasarrived]

My mother took me to see this in 1963.That was a time when movies gave out pieces of dinnerware to women patrons one night a week.Those old movie theaters with their balconies are no more.

 

[Babybull244]

Yeesh....Buddy Hackett & Mickey Rooney flying the plane with Jim Backus making Old Fashions in the back. "What are you the hostess?"

Phil Silvers is great...Jonathan Winters tour de force performance but as a kid always remember Sylvester - Dick Shawn think his name is makes that movie...& Sid Ceaser in the basement of the Hardware Store. A lost art - not a curse word or nude chick anywhere and still stands up today!

 

[Source]

Did you know the late Jonathan Winters is a descendant of Charles Winters Darst, a junior for Princeton and a player in the November 6, 1869 football game with Rutgers?

 

[SanFranRutgers]

So many classic bit parts and cameos, like Jim Backus and the three stooges

Jack Benny.

 

[Knight Shift]

Did you know the late Jonathan Winters is a descendant of Charles Winters Darst, a junior for Princeton and a player in the November 6, 1869 football game with Rutgers?

Whoa. Interesting fact. You are "Source." Thanks.

 

[Saint Puppy]

Haven't seen that movie since I was a little guy - need to see it again, as I remember it being hilarious.

 

[newell138]

Love that movie! As a kid it seemed like it was on every Saturday afternoon. I must have watched it 10x. Its an all star cast for sure.

 

[Source]

I always thought they should have re-made that movie using the same concept but updated plate with comedic stars and cameos of stars of the following generations. Would be interesting to see who you cast as the main characters and who shows up in a cameo.

I'd have David Letterman as the guy who literally "kicks the bucket" in the latest version. I'd pair up Steve Martin with maybe Dan Ackroyd, Jane Curtain; another group might be Chris Rock, David Spade, Dave Chapelle, Eddie Murphy. Throw in the crew from Howard Stern. Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Seth Rogan, Will Farrell, Amy Shumer, Larry David, Jay Leno, Louis Black, John Stewart, Dave Thomas, Eugene Levy, John Cleese, Eric Idle...........

Call it: "Still, A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"

 

[Source]

Found this at a trivia website about the movie:

With the death of Mickey Rooney on April 6, 2014, there are no surviving members of the main cast left. Since the passing of Stan Freberg on April 7, 2015, Carl Reiner, Nicholas Georgiade, Barrie Chase, Marvin Kaplan, John Clarke, and Jerry Lewis are the only surviving members of the complete cast.