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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: The Uncle Floyd show has a history all it's own aside from featuring Floyd Vivino. I feel that it is an injustice that there is no article about this historic television show. There should be an article about the Uncle Floyd show and it's history and cast members that DOES NOT REDIRECT to Floyd Vivino. The history of the show was written out by cast member Mugsy on his Captain Fork website. How it began with bicycle safty tips for kids and how it became an adult favorite amung senior citizens and punk rockers alike. Floyd Vivino is not the entire show,he is the man who brought the whole cast of charactors together.I hope some one out there agrees that the Uncle Flyd Show absolutly should have an article all it's own. (edit)

Wasn't Captain Lou Albano on the show at least once? he was a bud of Cyndi Lauper; they may have been on together.

[edit] The Mister Frogers-Slot Machine Blooper

Does anybody else remember, in the early 80s, when he was doing "Mister Frogers" ("It's a beautiful day in the ghetto."), and he was trying to do a joke about how you can lose all your money in a slot machine...AND THE SLOT MACHINE HIT THE JACKPOT!

Slot machine hits jackpot

Looney Skip Rooney (already realizing the bit is lost): starts laughing

Uncle Floyd (angrily): "Damn machine. I WON!"

Everybody in the studio: laughs hystericaly

-30- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.136.79.120 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Origins of The Uncle Floyd Show

As a minor correction The Uncle Floyd Show actually first aired on United Artists Columbia Cable of New Jersey on January 29, 1974 then on WBTB-TV starting in November 1974. WBTB-TV was the successor to WWRO which went dark when it's owner Walter Reade Outdoor group went out of business, It was then bought by Ike Blonder and Ben Tongue who revived the station as WBTB, Floyd was able to convince station manager Robert Leach to give him a time slot and the rest as they say was history. By the way as a note several sources including the websites of cast member Mugsy incorrectly identify the station as WBTV which is obviously incorrect and I did speak to Mugsy a few years ago asking him to correct that which he apparently never did and unfortunately with Mugsy's recent death from Cancer it probably will now never be properly corrected. Misterrick 06:57, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Paul Simon Did Appear on the Uncle Floyd Show

I remember seeing Paul Simon on the show around 1982/1983 when it was being syndicated in the Philadelphia/New Jersey area. Paul played an acoustic version of "Slip Sliding Away" (guitar only) that was very different from the original, and I actually learned how to play this arrangement by watching his hands during the performance. I also made a tape-recording of it that is probably long-gone.

On the website "History of the Uncle Floyd Show" (http://members.tripod.com/~mugsy11/synd.html) Mugsy mentioned Paul's appearance on the show, along with a description of his reserved nature as compared to Chubby Checker and Captain Lou Albano. There is also a video "Millennium Madness" (sold at http://members.tripod.com/~mugsy11/videos.html) that contains a clip of Paul in a "Billionaire" sketch".

Given the above information, I suggest that Paul's appearance on the show be added to the Floyd Vivino article. Although the account may be true that Paul was not taken seriously when he first called the show, wishing to appear, it is clear that he did indeed appear sometime afterward.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Comixsurfer (talk • contribs) 2006-08-06

[edit] Joe Bev and Unckle Floyd Will Appear Together for the First Time Since 1981 Feud

Hi gang!

I am Joe Bevilacqua, aka Joe Bev. I will be appearing with Uncle Floyd at the White Wolf Restaurant and Lodge, in Napanoch this Saturday, June 30, at 6:30 pm., as a benefit for Ellenville arts.

Uncle Floyd and I have crossed paths many times in my 35 years in show business. Like Floyd, I started out as a child performer. I got my braces off the day before I first appeared on “The Joe Franklin Show on New York's WOR-TV in 1976. I was seventeen and performed Abbott & Costello's Who's On First? with a friend. We shared the bill with a guy with a song that hit number three on the charts in Philadelphia, and a foul-mouthed ventriloquist and his dummy, Otto Peterson and George.

My career almost ended in the Summer of 1964, while performing at a family picnic when I was three years old. I opened with a rousing rendition of I Want Some Red Roses for a Blue Lady wearing a striped jacket and straw hat. I switched to a derby and imitated both Laurel AND Hardy. Last, I put on a fake rubber nose and crushed my hat onto my head. I was about to do my big finale, as Jimmy Durante, when my Uncle Joe pulled me aside and whispered a suggested minor change in the joke I was about to tell:

I was walking down the street and a man came up to me and said: 'take that banana out of your mouth!' I said, 'That's not a banana! That's my nose! Ah-cha-cha-cha!!'

“You always say it that way,” Uncle Joe offered. “You want a big laugh? Say it this way:

I was walking down the street and a man came up to me and said: 'take that banana out of your mouth!' I said, 'That's not a banana! My pants fell down! Ah-cha-cha-cha!!'

I didn't understand the joke he was making, but I turned to my family and, in my best Jimmy Durante, I said:

I was walking down the street and a man came up to me and said: 'take that banana out of your mouth!' I said, 'That's not a banana! That's my wee-wee! Ah-cha-cha-cha!!'

It got a big laugh but it was the last time I was asked to perform at a family picnic.

Luckily, in 1972, my father's gift of a tape recorder led me into a career not just in comedy and theater but also broadcasting. Two years later, The Uncle Floyd Show premiered on New Jersey UHF television.

I hated the show at first. Somehow, a TV show made a few miles from my home couldn't be any good, I thought.

Then, I saw Floyd Vivino perform live before a highly appreciative audience at the now defunct Bottom Line in New York City. There was no audience on the TV show, just a few giggling cameramen.

Uncle Floyd is a brilliant performer, both as a comedian and musician, but the best way to enjoy him is to see him live and local. I'm not just buttering up the guy because I will be on the same stage with him this Saturday, or because he and I once had a feud that played out in the media.

It started, in 1981, with a little innocent comment I made on the air during the weekly four-hour Sunday morning jazz and comedy radio show I did with Garret Gega for WKNJ-FM in Union New Jersey. Something to the effect of Uncle Floyd stinks! WKNJ's board lit up! The Uncle Floyd fans descended upon me. To be fair, I did also say he was a great piano player.

Soon, there was an I Hate Joe Bev Fan Club. Floyd and his cohorts would frequently rib me on the TV show, and I'd reciprocated on the radio. We performed at many of the same clubs, such Club Bené, but never together. I often went on Floyd rival, Looney Skip Rooney's New Jersey cable TV show, and attacked from another enemy's camp, until Rooney defected and joined the cast of Floyd's show. A picture of Frankenstein hung on the wall of the Uncle Floyd set with the name JOE BEV scrawled under it. Floyd threw darts at it regularly, while a guy in a gorilla suit (Rooney?) interrupted shouting, Me Joe Bev! Me Joe Bev! Ooo! Ooo! Ooo! while throwing banana peals.

Hopefully that won't happen Saturday night at the White Wolf, but if it does, at least I'll know what it feels like to bomb locally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.9.58 (talk • contribs) 2007-06-26

the best part of the show was the drawings when uncle floyd and oogie would read mail and show drawings that viewers sent in

[edit] drawings

the best part of the show was the drawings when uncle floyd and oogie would read mail and show drawings that viewers sent in —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 (talk) 20:42, 27 December 2007 (UTC)