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Comedian Bill Dana, Who Played the Character Jose Jimenez, Dies at 92
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | June 19, 2017 | Mike Barnes

Posted on 06/19/2017 5:26:51 PM PDT by EveningStar

Bill Dana, who created and starred as the earnest character at the center of the "My Name … Jose Jimenez" routine that made him one of America's most beloved comic performers of the 1960s, has died. He was 92.

Dana, who first appeared as Jimenez on The Steve Allen Plymouth Show, where he also worked as an Emmy-nominated head writer, died Thursday at his home in Nashville, Emerson College announced.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Humor; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: billdana; donadams; hollywood; josejimenez; obituary; steveallen; wouldyoubelieve
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To: GreenHornet

And yet so many movies and even network television shows today not only depict but seem to celebrate blatant violence, dangerous sexual promiscuity, torture; any kind of violence or selfishness is ‘OK’.

We’re in ‘Bizzaro’ world.


41 posted on 06/19/2017 7:10:26 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: EveningStar

Would be considered racist / cultural appropriation today, I guess. Libtards have destroyed comedy, other than us laughing at them.


42 posted on 06/19/2017 7:42:14 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: odawg

A Jewish guy doing a Mexican accent ... worked pretty well for Mel Blanc too: Speedy Gonzalez, “Adios, Sr. Pussy Cat! Andalé! Andalé! Riba! Riba!” Who knew that instead of running out of oil a sense of humor would become the scarcest commodity around?


43 posted on 06/19/2017 7:50:21 PM PDT by katana
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To: Gay State Conservative

I loved him in the 60s, too.


44 posted on 06/19/2017 8:30:57 PM PDT by Gigantor (Either the United States respects its Constitution, or there is no need for a United States.)
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To: katana

In the days of video stores, all stores in black neighborhoods had lots of Amos ‘n’ Andy tapes. Mexicans loved Speedy Gonzalez.

It’s the Marxists who gin up the phony outrage.


45 posted on 06/19/2017 8:46:00 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: EveningStar

He wrote the famous Sammy Davis Jr. episode of ‘All in the Family’.


46 posted on 06/19/2017 9:21:15 PM PDT by Borges
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To: EveningStar

R.I.P.

Lots of laughs for Jack Hammer.

He was a funny guy.


47 posted on 06/20/2017 12:18:09 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: EveningStar

I remember it from when I was a kid. Hilarious. And he always had an anxious, self-conscious delivery that made it even better. RIP Jose!!!


48 posted on 06/20/2017 11:03:15 AM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: EveningStar

I remember it from when I was a kid. Hilarious. And he always had an anxious, self-conscious delivery that made it even better. RIP Jose!!!


49 posted on 06/20/2017 11:03:21 AM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: EveningStar; Bender2; KC_Lion; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; ...

Not familiar with this gentleman. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1MOLzFpqrU

This would give the PC police an aneurysm today.


50 posted on 06/20/2017 11:19:20 AM PDT by Impy (End the kritarchy!)
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To: Impy

It shows to go how fascist our culture is today.


51 posted on 06/20/2017 11:28:19 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Impy; KC_Lion; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker

92. A good run.

I vaguely remember reruns of the show when I was little.

No way it would be made today.


52 posted on 06/20/2017 11:36:25 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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