I've watched several episodes of Match Game and Match Game PM recently, and I noticed that no one ever refers to Charles
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princess_kaya — 19 years ago(April 21, 2006 06:12 PM)
While this doesn't really mean whether Charles was "out" or not, one of my favorite lines of the entire show and got both Brett and Gene pretty much rolling:
Charles: What's the biggest fruit you can get, present company excluded?
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vexner — 19 years ago(August 14, 2006 11:11 PM)
I've noticed that in some episodes Charles is really "up" and funny and that's when some of the jokes betw Brett, Gene & Charles veer as close towards gay humor as you were going to get in 70s daytime TV, but in other episodes Charles is more subdued and perhaps not in such a good mood, and his friends seem to pick up on it and stay away from the gay innuendos for the time being.
Anyway, I always figured that it must have been quite frustrating to be someone who is so naturally funny and entertaining and silly, but to have to restrain oneself so much in order to conform to the restrictive guidelines of broadcast TV (and society in general) of the times in which this series was being made.
All I know is that if CNR is on any given
Match Game
episode, we definitely stick around and watch it, but if he's away for the day, well, then, we just might skip it.
btw:
non-judgement day is near -
ninjajo1 — 19 years ago(December 28, 2006 02:10 PM)
The most obvious one I remember is when the question was:
"You may not know this, but I heard that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are BLANK."
The contestant answers "Gay". While the audience's laughter is dying down, Brett leans over to Charles and says, "Some people ARE, you know!"
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NicelyMalicious — 18 years ago(May 29, 2007 02:25 PM)
Did that incident with Fannie Flagg really happen? See, I don't like Brett Somers. She always comes across as being genuinely mean-spirited. I usually just try to ignore her and watch the panelists I do like, especially my favourite: Charles Nelson Reilly.
Every episode I've seen has contained a lot of innuendo - at least half of which comes from CNR himself - about his sexuality. I think I've just always recognised that he was gay because of
Match Game
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tbx5959 — 12 years ago(November 20, 2013 12:07 PM)
It always b68is a fine line, a strip that folds back on itself, between flaming gay guy and ladies man - they really act and behave similar. I guess since it's mostly peacocking. The majority of men gay and straight don't behave like that.
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trav23-1 — 19 years ago(December 29, 2006 10:21 PM)
one of the episodes that was on tonight, brett said she changed her mind as she was writing a second card. two questions later, as gene was headed back towards the contestants, charles says "i changed my mind" and gene answered "well, that's a woman's perogative."
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BlackJack_B — 19 years ago(March 09, 2007 03:56 PM)
I have to agree with the comment of the poster who said Richard Dawson could deliver a convincing stereotypical gay persona on occasion for laughs. He did it often in his prime years on Match Game. I think he did a better job than even CNR. Of course, he started cutting it out when he started hosting Family Feud on the side. Watch GSN on occasion and you might see Dawson's dead-on portrayal.
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sagdogs — 18 years ago(May 28, 2007 02:34 AM)
I knew Charles well & yes he was out at that time. Remember, he could not only dish it out but he could take it also.
Charles did what had to be done to make every project he worked on a success. We all took a beating back then. He just wanted "Match Game" to be a success; just like he was!!! -
clarasmith — 18 years ago(May 28, 2007 12:51 PM)
There is a clip on You Tube where CNR sneezes on Gene Rayburn and Gene says something to CNR like "Great, now I'm going to catch what you have." CNR looks at him and says "Not dressed like that you aren't." That broke up Gene Rayburn. Very funny stuff and yes, they knew.
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Darthfrodo58 — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 01:52 PM)
There is a clip on You Tube where CNR sneezes on Gene Rayburn and Gene says something to CNR like "Great, now I'm going to catch what you have." CNR looks at him and says "Not dressed like that you aren't."
I burst out laughing at that
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LPurch6636 — 18 years ago(May 28, 2007 02:33 PM)
This topic really used to confuse me on the Match Game. Doesn't anybody remember when CNR appeared with his "partner" at the time ELIZABETH ALLEN?!!
They would say affectionate things to each other like "My Doll," and affected exactly like they were a couple. (Was it "Match Game" that required a "couple" or another game?) Anyway, I was a kid, very naive, and even I thought that that Charles acted pretty effeminate to be sexually involved with Elizabeth Allen. (At least "Elizabeth Allen" was the name I remember. Her first name was definitely Elizabeth and she was an actress, probably around Charles's age.)
Doesn't anyone remember this?
Anyway, Rest in Peace, Charles.
You brought us a lot of laughs
Flanagan