Chortled TV Comic Jackie Gleason last ... suddenly been made a cardinal.” Gleason’s new eminence came as a double helping: his hour-long Saturday night show on CBS was newly rated No. 1 ...

Show opens with Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra playing two numbers including "Struttin' with Some Barbecue". Next up is a Reggie Van Gleason sketch about a wrestling match. Art Carney is the ...

The prodigiously talented Gleason became a TV icon after he joined CBS from DuMont, where his work on `Calvalcade of Stars' had established many of his trademark characters, including Reginald Van ...

Gleason is also known for developing "The Jackie Gleason Show" that consistently had high ratings from the mid-1950s to the 1970s. He also starred in notable films alongside Hollywood heavyweights ...

A close friend of Shor for more than 20 years, Gleason calls him Clamhead. He has long since earned Shor’s highest accolade: “Jackie drinks good.” With the show-biz-sporting crowd that ...