Well, that was interesting. I must say, my frame of reference is so small, that I don’t *get* most of the references in the parody [just think what it’s like to be a cloistered nun] :) THX kindly.
I read where CNR and Paul Lynde got their mannerisms from,
“And yet his persona — at least in his speaking style — was not entirely original to him:
[Alice] Ghostley bore such an uncanny resemblance to Paul–mostly in the way she talked–that a [play producer] reportedly mistook the two of them for siblings. Ghostley has been dismissed as a female Paul Lynde for decades, but a few people who know both performers insist Paul committed the identity theft. “He was doing Alice Ghostley all the time,” Paul’s friend Allison McKay says. “In fact, he told her, ‘I’ve become famous doing you!’ I really think that she was there first, but he loved the way she did things.” Charles Nelson Reilly’s recent admission of guilt regarding his own swipe from the Lynde/Ghostley repertoire suggests McKay may be right. When asked how he came up with his trademark “huh-hull” noise, Reilly said, “I stole it from Paul Lynde, who stole it from Alice Ghostley.”
https://mikecane.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/that-funny-that-nasty-that-charming-man/