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In a 1986 interview, Jackie Gleason said he considered suing Hanna-Barbera for The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, but passed when his lawyers cautioned, "Do you want to be known as the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air?".
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Jackie Gleason once was an actual pool shark. He made all his own trick shots in The Hustler (1961).
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George Carlin was put on the FBI watchlist for doing an impersonation of J. Edgar Hoover on "The Jackie Gleason Show".
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Actor Jason Patric is the grandson of the legendary actor and performer Jackie Gleason (of "The Honeymooners" fame)
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Jackie Gleason once hosted a game show that was so bad, it only aired two episodes. The second episode was a half-hour apology from Gleason.
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The pilot episode for the game show You're in the Picture went so poorly that Jackie Gleason used the time slot to apologize for a half hour the following week.
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Jackie Gleason developed a crippling fear of flying after an emergency landing during a flight from LA to NYC. Having landed in Oklahoma, he got back to NY by borrowing $200 from a stranger who had Gleason prove his identity by watching one of his movies together for an hour.
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When Jackie Gleason met Olympic gold medalist, ice skater Sonja Henie, he handed her an ice cube and said, “Okay, now do something.”
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Jackie Gleason once did a show so bad, on the 2nd episode he apologized to the audience.
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Jackie Gleason was knocked out by boxer Tony Galento after Gleason challenged him to fight for heckling his act
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The haunting cornet performance (If I Could Be With You--One Hour Tonight) attributed to Jackie Gleason in Woody Allen's Whatever Works is actually Bobby Hackett. Gleason's Music for Lovers Only with Hackett's cornet, is the US record for weeks in the Top Ten sales at 153. - source
Jackie Gleason had a game show that aired for one episode and flopped. The next week he sat in a chair in a bare stage and apologized to the audience, saying that the show "made the H-Bomb look like a two-inch salute". - source
