Billy Eichner to play gay TV icon Paul Lynde in film biopic

for some reason I thought Lynde was also the actor who played Marlo Thomas’s boyfriend on That Girl, but the internet says it was another guy. did that guy trip anyone else’s gaydar?

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Ted Bessell? Nah. (not that I’m very good at that sort of thing)

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paul lynde said lots of things on Hollywood Squares that even now make me gasp and howl. like this one:

the delivery makes it, but for those who don’t want/need to watch a youtube link, it goes like this:

Q: According to Amy Vanderbilt, do you tip in a motel the same as you would in a hotel?

Paul [incredulously]: for a HALF AN HOUR??

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His individual skits on the “Donnie and Marie Show” were extremely unfunny and painful to watch. That’s the only place I really know him from. Maybe he didn’t write them (I have no idea) but they are awful. Other than that, I don’t know much about him.

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