Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall
TVboy79
week, I got to watch GSN, and they were on "Tattletales" AND "The Gong Show"!!
I had never heard of either of them until then. Are they still around, and
what are they up to??
Mequirino
Charlie Brill is still alive today (and has been married to Mitzi McCall for
over 30 years) and still in a television series that we might know of on the
USA network.
I was watching episodes of "Silk Stalkings" (reruns on M-F and new/current eps
on Sunday nights) and since the early 1990s Charlie Brill's roll has always
been the stressful Captain Harry Lipschitz on this USA network drama. He's
more serious nowadays still with glasses, but no perm or moustache. Watch this
show and find out!!!
Mark
Mark Evanier
>What happened to Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall?? When I was on vacation last
>week, I got to watch GSN, and they were on "Tattletales" AND "The Gong Show"!!
>I had never heard of either of them until then. Are they still around, and
>what are they up to??
ME: Charlie and Mitzi are good pals of mine. Charlie has been
appearing for some time as a regular on the TV series SILK STALKINGS.
Mitzi has also appeared on the show and has been busy as a TV writer
and actress. Recently, NBC was running a promo in which she played a
woman teaching a class of immigrants.
They're both very active in voiceover work. A few years ago, I
directed them in the title roles of the cartoon series, MOTHER GOOSE &
GRIMM, based on the comic strip. And they pop up all the time in
commercials and on radio. (I was just watching the Albert Brooks
film, DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, the other night. Mitzi is the voice of the
woman on the telephone at the car dealership.)
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Mark Evanier - 363 S. Fairfax Ave., #303 - Los Angeles, CA 90036
C Alliaume
>and actress. Recently, NBC was running a promo in which she played a
>woman teaching a class of immigrants.
I don't know if it's still airing (it wasn't renewed for a second season), but
Mitzi was a regular as Carol Leifer's mom on the WB sitcom Alright Already.
I honestly hadn't heard of them when Tattletales and The Gong Show (and
especially Rhyme and Reason, which they were on all the time) aired. It's nice
to be able to put together some background.
-- Curt Alliaume, somewhere in Singapore
Bobbogong
do with Ellen holding auditions for live entertainment in the bookstore.) Also,
in that same episode, one of the people auditioning for Ellen was a former
"Gong Show" contestant, Richard "Happy" Hall (on "GS", he danced on a steel
drum with roller skates - a clip that Chuck used briefly in the "Gong Show
Movie".)
"This is me saying.....bye-bye"
Chuck Barris, "The Gong Show"
Tammy Warner
& best of all, still married. They're another in my list of the coolest
game show celeb couples, along with Bobby Van & Elaine Joyce & Dick
Gautier & Barbara Stuart. (I still want to know if the latter couple are
still married.)
REMEMBER GEORGE DeWITT!!
Tammy Warner (TamW...@webTV.net)
Vinylfan
>It's great to hear that Charlie & Mitzi are still around, still active,
>& best of all, still married.
I do believe Charlie and Mitzi were doing their comedy act on one of the first
Ed Sullivan shows the Beatles performed on , in 1963. A friend told me they
were later interviewed about that, and how wild that night was. It was
Tattletales that I discovered them on, however.
>Dick
>Gautier & Barbara Stuart. (I still want to know if the latter couple are
>still married.)
Dick was interviewed on GSN last year and said they had divorced.
Jekalb329
>Gautier & Barbara Stuart. (I still want to know if the latter couple are
>still married.)
As you know Bobby Van died in 1980 with brain cancer. Ironic how Bert Convy
died with the same disease 11 years later. Convy had just got married for the
2nd time with his girlfriend he had during his Super Password reign.
Dick Gautier and Barabara Stewart divorced in 1985. Which leads to another
question...Where are they now?
Mark Evanier
>I do believe Charlie and Mitzi were doing their comedy act on one of the first
> Ed Sullivan shows the Beatles performed on , in 1963.
ME: Yeah. In the Billy Crystal movie MR. SATURDAY NIGHT, there's a
sequence wherein his character -- a stand-up comic -- is attempting to
perform on the Sullivan show the same night that the Beatles made
their debut. The scene is admittedly based on the stories Charlie and
Mitzi tell of doing the show that night and having their routine bomb
because the audience was full of screaming teen-age girls who wanted
Ringo.
Mark Evanier
>Dick Gautier and Barabara Stewart divorced in 1985. Which leads to another
>question...Where are they now?
ME: Dunno about Barbara but Dick is still very active as an actor,
especially in the voiceover area. I ran into him at the Magic Castle
at lunchtime about two months ago and I told him I'd just seen him on
a TATTLETALES rerun. He remembered the specific episode and was still
embarrassed at something he said on the show.
Jekalb329
>especially in the voiceover area. I ran into him at the Magic Castle
>at lunchtime about two months ago and I told him I'd just seen him on
>a TATTLETALES rerun. He remembered the specific episode and was still
>embarrassed at something he said on the show.
AND WHAT MIGHT THAT BE? :)
THEJ-MAN
Bamm Bamm Show back in the 70's, which also featured the voices of Sally
Struthers (Pebbles), Jay North (Bamm Bamm), and the cast of Hanna
Barbera regulars, including those who were on The Flintstones.
Cartoon Network airs these episodes occasionally under the title Back to
Bedrock.
"Until next time, always remember To Tell the Truth!" - Bud Collyer
J-MAN'S GAME SHOW WEBSITE
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/4439/
Jekalb329
>Bamm Bamm Show back in the 70's, which also featured the voices of Sally
>Struthers (Pebbles), Jay North (Bamm Bamm), and the cast of Hanna
>Barbera regulars, including those who were on The Flintstones.
>
>Cartoon Network airs these episodes occasionally under the title Back to
>Bedrock.
WOW! I remember! Talk about a blast from the past!
Eddie Walker
godparents on mellisa gilbert.
and charlie was the klingon guy on the trouble with tribbles epsiode on
StartRek the orginal series
TVboy79 wrote in message
<199808220510...@ladder03.news.aol.com>...
>What happened to Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall?? When I was on vacation
last
>week, I got to watch GSN, and they were on "Tattletales" AND "The Gong
Show"!!
>I had never heard of either of them until then. Are they still around, and
>what are they up to??
>
>Sam
>TVb...@aol.com
Paul Duca
Mark Evanier wrote:
> On 22 Aug 1998 19:06:20 GMT, viny...@aol.com (Vinylfan) posted:
>
> >I do believe Charlie and Mitzi were doing their comedy act on one of the first
> > Ed Sullivan shows the Beatles performed on , in 1963.
>
> ME: Yeah. In the Billy Crystal movie MR. SATURDAY NIGHT, there's a
> sequence wherein his character -- a stand-up comic -- is attempting to
> perform on the Sullivan show the same night that the Beatles made
> their debut. The scene is admittedly based on the stories Charlie and
> Mitzi tell of doing the show that night and having their routine bomb
> because the audience was full of screaming teen-age girls who wanted
> Ringo.
>
Do you think they have "what if" thoughts of where their career might have
gone if they hadn't been overshadowed by the Fab Four that night? Carol Burnett,
for one, really broke through with her appearance on Sullivan, performing "I Lost
My Heart Over John Foster Dulles".
Paul Duca
T. Jay
>
> What happened to Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall?? When I was on vacation last
> week, I got to watch GSN, and they were on "Tattletales" AND "The Gong Show"!!
> I had never heard of either of them until then. Are they still around, and
> what are they up to??
>
bio on Charlie & Mitzi:
• They are a husband and wife comedy team, sorta in the same vain as
Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara (Stiller & Meara).
• Both Charlie/Mitzi & Jerry/Anne gained fame, in large, to their
appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show.
• CB & MMc appeared on most game shows as a couple (Tatteltales, Rhyme &
Reason,...)
• Mitzi has done many cartoon voices, the one I remember is Penny on The
Pebbles and Bamm Bamm Show of the 70s...Oddly enough, the Hanna-Barbera
people made Penny to look like Mitzi just a bit!!
• And like Stiller & Meara, Charlie & Mitzi are still married for 30+
years!!
T. Jay
Mark Evanier
posted:
> Do you think they have "what if" thoughts of where their career might have
>gone if they hadn't been overshadowed by the Fab Four that night? Carol Burnett,
>for one, really broke through with her appearance on Sullivan, performing "I Lost
>My Heart Over John Foster Dulles".
ME: I don't think Charlie and Mitzi felt that that one appearance hurt
their careers in any way. And the truth is that, in spite of the
audience screaming, they didn't do poorly that night.
THEJ-MAN
marciash...@gmail.com
> What happened to Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall?? When I was on vacation last
> week, I got to watch GSN, and they were on "Tattletales" AND "The Gong Show"!!
> I had never heard of either of them until then. Are they still around, and
> what are they up to??
>
> TVb...@aol.com
My three favorits were Charlie and Mitzi, Bobby Van and his wife, and Dick Gautier and Barbara. Saw them alot on (of course Tatletales), Match Game, Love these two shows with Gene Rayburn. So very very entertaining. I also remember a younger female redhead commedian, who with her cigar smoking husband were on these shows too. She just past away recently,but had been married to her spouse til then. Can't remember their names, Very popular.....
Vanna Fan
Dana W
Kenny McCormack
What's really cool about them is that these two couples were the ones that
squabbled the most on the show, including joking about ending up in divorce
court, yet they stayed together in real life forever. As you note, Donald
& Patty stayed together until the end; both died (relatively) recently.
Mitzi & Charlie are still together and both still alive (in their 80s).
Most of the other couples on the show (who often presented themselves as
perfect, loving couples) eventually divorced (sometimes, you gotta assume
that being on the show precipitated their divorce).
Also, you can add Bobby & Elaine to the list; they were together right up
until Bobby's untimely departure from this world. Incidentally, you should
read up on the story of how Bobby & Elaine got married; it was not a simple
path. The story is available on IMDB.
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