A new and mysterious user with the screen name, “ALittleWinchellDoYa” has posted the following clip on YouTube.
I have no idea where he or she found it. I don’t even have this one.
I remember this like it was yesterday.
This is from a show my dad and mom created together. The premise was simple: dad used ventriloquism to torture and confuse small children who didn’t know they were being filmed – like a Candid Camera for kids (so much like it in fact, that he was eventually sued and forced to stop production).
When these scenes were filmed, I had already been on the show for a year, and I knew the drill. I knew when it was my dad talking, and I knew not to let on. In fact, my mother tells a story about shooting a segment with a little boy who started crying uncontrollably. Apparently, I walked right up to him, put my hands on my hips and said, “Jesus Christ, you’re going to ruin the whole bit!”
I was also not supposed to tell anyone that Paul Winchell was my father (I guess I was sort of working as a mole). That’s why I’m so hesitant about identifying myself in the beginning of the clip.
ALittleWinchellDoYa has threatened to post more of these clips in the future, so we’ll just have to see what he or she has up his or her sleeve.
UPDATE: ALittleWinchellDoYa has informed me that this clip comes from a compilation DVD entitled “Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney TV Rarities, Volume 2″. The DVD can be found on the KineVideo web site, which is run by Bruce Simon.
I met Bruce through eBay a few years ago, and he was a very decent and good hearted guy. He has been rescuing Kinescopes and converting them for years, and is largely responsible for video like this even existing. Go take a look at his site and be amazed by his amazing collection.
79 responses so far ↓
1 jasonthegreat // Oct 23, 2007 at 9:38 am
April, you were adorable! Great clip; I hope the person posts more soon.
2 joshpincusiscrying // Oct 23, 2007 at 9:41 am
This clip is awesome. As George McFly put so eloquently… “It’s your density!”
3 Carltonyuk // Oct 23, 2007 at 9:48 am
Both clips excerpted from the DVD titled “Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney TV Rarities, Volume 2″ available from Kinevideo.net
Just some info from the youtube link……
4 John Foley // Oct 23, 2007 at 10:02 am
This is why Bill Funt hates you.
5 Gina // Oct 23, 2007 at 10:25 am
Look at you, flashing your moneymaker.
6 Carltonyuk // Oct 23, 2007 at 10:25 am
I had to do some research him John, not being from the US……….I get it now.
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7 JohnnyBoy // Oct 23, 2007 at 10:40 am
I just figured that out today, that’s whatthe UK in Carltonyuk is.
Not Carlton Yuk as I originally thought
8 Carltonyuk // Oct 23, 2007 at 10:45 am
yep that’s right Johnny…..it’s Carl…..Tony from the UK….although I have to say your suggestion is a bloody good one…..:o)
9 katzinoire // Oct 23, 2007 at 10:57 am
Oh April! How cute are you? Those curls are precious! John was probably grinning like a cheshire cat when he viewed this. Guess you have a #1 fan somewhere!
10 Titanole // Oct 23, 2007 at 12:30 pm
All together now. Awwwwwww.
11 clevelandphil // Oct 23, 2007 at 1:27 pm
April lifts her skirt and flashes her unmentionables. She was the Paris Hilton of the 1950’s.
BTW did she get to keep the toys.
12 Stretch // Oct 23, 2007 at 1:43 pm
umm Phil – April was born in 1961
“HELLO – MCFLY!!”
13 clevelandphil // Oct 23, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Oops. Black and white 50’s shows stretched out to 1966 when shows were in color. So any show like Bewitched or I Dream Of Jeannie that were black and white, is a 1950’s show.
14 Auntie Vera Charles // Oct 23, 2007 at 3:11 pm
I shant say it.
15 pal Jacky // Oct 23, 2007 at 3:32 pm
I think the most frightening thing is your father’s idea that children will accept anything you tell them and then exploting that for amusement.
16 Stretch // Oct 23, 2007 at 3:58 pm
FISH -FISH-FISH-FISH-FISH-FISH-FISH etc ~
17 pal Jacky // Oct 23, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I’m not this stupid. I keep thinking that after ’submit’ I get a chance to proofread. I meant ‘exploited’, of course. Furthermore, I’m I the only one in Southern California tired of all the coverage of the fires? All my favorite Judge shows as well as Jerry Springer and ‘Married with children’ reruns weren’t on again today. Perhaps if any of these newscasts were competent I might feel different. “One dead…one dead… look at flames.. the wind..the wind” I’ve been affected almost as much as any of these people. I woke up with a scratchy throat this morning. Again I suffer in silence. I
18 pal Jacky // Oct 23, 2007 at 4:14 pm
one last thing question. Does the Antivera know I’m allergic to seafood or is he just insane and I’m taking his fish comments too seriously?
19 bnaivar // Oct 23, 2007 at 4:23 pm
…and who’d of thought that a mere decade later, that sweet, innocent little girl would have armpit hair?
20 phoebefigalilly // Oct 23, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Oh my God…My cold heart is getting all warm and tingly! That is truly adorable and quite a gift!
21 jandu // Oct 23, 2007 at 7:14 pm
sweet…..
You know what? I’d love to have a video of my dad hugging me when I was that age…….thanks for sharing it.
22 pal Jacky // Oct 23, 2007 at 7:23 pm
sorry about that earlier rant. As always, I spoke too soon. The coverage of the fire is really annoying. But, I’ve rediscovered Paul Moyer. What an AssKlown. I can watch and listen to him for days. When, he announced the deathtoll was up to five. He showed his fingers like a child when you ask them their age. Priceless, I hope more die so he has to use his other hand.
23 Doug // Oct 23, 2007 at 7:32 pm
April, you are freakin’ hilarious, even as a little kid. Amazing.
24 Farfel // Oct 23, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Gee, Paul Moyer is still around! How lucky you guys are to have him wallowing in other people’s misery! I suppose LarryLarry Attebery is gone by now. I loved his name so much I couldn’t leave off with just one Larry.
25 MIInsane // Oct 23, 2007 at 8:41 pm
That is, quite possibly, the cutest thing I’ve ever seen!
26 Auntie Vera Charles // Oct 23, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Your dad was such a sweet man.
27 steve // Oct 23, 2007 at 9:06 pm
am I right in thinking that the guy in the middle segment, who talks about children believing anything they’re told, is not in fact April’s father? I think someone hinted at that a few posts back.
and who did the voice of the arm? was that Paul? the comic timing was so great with the kids, and they were very relaxed and natural on camera.
28 steve // Oct 23, 2007 at 9:16 pm
forgot to add: the whole thing’s just completely fucking adorable. and April’s skivvies, twice.
she did get all of her toys; duh. the “crotch/gonna sit here until I figure out how to carry my shit/crotch” sequence at that young age is some seriously nice work, April.
29 gary // Oct 23, 2007 at 10:27 pm
No offense, but I always found your dad’s work disturbing in the same way I found clowns or shopping center Santas disturbing.
But…………….you’ve eclipsed your dad talent wise times a thousand.
I’m so glad to have accidently found your show one Saturday night.
Our daughter had just been born and listening to your show was sort of my wife and I’s Saturday night date night.
Then, of course, KFI canceled you which completely blew.
30 davidhazard71 // Oct 23, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Great Footage indeed. I did not know much of the early stuff of your dad’s career. Due to the fact I was born in 1971, and by that time Hanna Barbera had Dastardly and Muttley, I’ve seen Winnie the Pooh as he was Tigger, , and of course Gargamel on the Smurfs. I’ve seen numerous guest shots on The Lucy Show as well. I’m glad that someone is resuing kinescopes and that TV history is being preserved. That was such a cute video.
David
31 davidhazard71 // Oct 23, 2007 at 11:02 pm
sorry for the typo it is 2am here
32 steve // Oct 23, 2007 at 11:24 pm
my wife and I’s?
33 Andre // Oct 24, 2007 at 12:20 am
Eh? I don’t know. It just doesn’t seem like April when she doesn’t drop the f-bomb.
34 ALittleWinchellDoYa // Oct 24, 2007 at 5:09 am
Here’s the low-down for Steve: (When you get to my advanced age, you forget that there are folks who don’t know Jack Paar.)
The very first clip was an opening to the KABC-TV kandid kiddie videos program produced by her Dad and Mom (Nina Russell). In the next segment, the suave chap who talks about children believing anything they’re told is Jack Paar. The clip was rebroadcast during one of his NBC specials.
The voice and talent behind the nice machine was Paul “the claw” Winchell.
35 Farfel // Oct 24, 2007 at 7:06 am
So, this piece was sent by your dad out to Jack Paar. Jack Paar had left the Tonight Show by 1962. Were you THAT good by age 2? You were absolutely adorable, and the perfect shill for your dad!
36 JohnnyBoy // Oct 24, 2007 at 7:25 am
Jack Paar had a primetime show up til like 1965 or thereabouts
On which he was the first to show The Beatles
37 gary // Oct 24, 2007 at 7:44 am
Steve,
Yeah, I don’t write good.
I speak well, though
38 Stretch // Oct 24, 2007 at 8:39 am
So Dumbledorf the Wizard is gay – oh my
Looking back at our childhoods it really wasn’t only Paul Lynde and CN Reilly:
Magilla Gorilla – Wally Gator – Quick Draw Mc Graw, Dr Quest and “Race” Bannon (just travel companions!!). Yogi Bear and his fixation with baskets
The Great Gazoo – talk about a “gay ol time” dum-dums.
Hanna-Barbara was way ahead of their time…
Puts Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy in a whole new light
39 JohnnyBoy // Oct 24, 2007 at 9:55 am
Don’t forget Bert and Ernie !
40 Stretch // Oct 24, 2007 at 10:47 am
Mr. Snuffelupagus is a Top
41 JohnnyBoy // Oct 24, 2007 at 11:09 am
With a trunk like that I should hops so
42 JohnnyBoy // Oct 24, 2007 at 11:09 am
hope so
43 DavidinBerkeley // Oct 24, 2007 at 2:49 pm
From certain angles, Paul Winchell was a darned good-lookin’ man.
Hmmm.
44 DavidinBerkeley // Oct 24, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Hey, Carlton! Not heard from you since the AW Yahoo chatroom, back in the day.
45 Dylan // Oct 24, 2007 at 3:32 pm
I’m not someone who usually tolerates children but I cannot help but exclaim the following: AWWWWWWW
46 ALittleWinchellDoYa // Oct 24, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to YouTube, a little Winchell once again rears her cupie pie head:
Click on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6xo8Sp4JV4
And be sure to stay tuned until the very end for 3-year-old April’s “grand exit”.
47 John Foley // Oct 24, 2007 at 4:56 pm
@DavidinBerkeley-
You haven’t even seen his beefcake photos in the leopard-print bikini briefs.
48 Andre // Oct 24, 2007 at 11:14 pm
ALittleWinchellDoYa-
Oy!
49 jasonthegreat // Oct 25, 2007 at 12:03 am
I love seeing these videos of little April.
April, I wish you’d share with us some more memories of doing these programs.
50 jim // Oct 25, 2007 at 1:29 am
Good stuff.
The yodeling-fetish was yet to come.
But the uniqueness was already alive & well.
51 jasmith31 // Oct 25, 2007 at 1:41 am
Oh my gosh!!!! How freakin’ CUTE you were!!!!
and still are!
52 ubermilf // Oct 25, 2007 at 7:40 am
You’re a star!
53 bnaivar // Oct 25, 2007 at 8:39 am
Has the Screen Actors Guild come after you for back dues for these videos yet?
54 Stretch // Oct 25, 2007 at 10:31 am
Squirtel is the gay Pokeman – because he’s always squirting – ‘natch
55 JohnnyBoy // Oct 25, 2007 at 11:46 am
James of Team Rocket does cross-dress a bit, but that doesn’t mean anything
56 JohnnyBoy // Oct 25, 2007 at 11:52 am
ok, I really didn’t expect to find anything about gay Pokemon, but here ya go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ckP9beHj6g
57 DavidinBerkeley // Oct 25, 2007 at 3:28 pm
JF the bf: I heard about the leopard brief photos in the show where AW talked about seeing them. I’d exorcised the images from my imagination since she mentioned he was in his 70’s when he took them. (urp)
And now you go and bring them up again. I hope you’re not saying someone saved them.
58 adorisday // Oct 25, 2007 at 3:46 pm
OMG. Enchanté.
59 pal Jacky // Oct 25, 2007 at 4:51 pm
As long as we started on pokemon . Here’s a list for the big boys. My problem with the list is I haven’t played that many of the games. Furthermore, they left out Vin diesel’s character in’ Riddick’, Cloud in Final FantasyVII and of course Link from ‘the legend of Zelda’.
http://gaygamer.net/top-20-gayest-video-game-characters/
60 pal Jacky // Oct 25, 2007 at 4:59 pm
another thing about that list. Cybil Bennet from the first ’silent Hill’ could have been a lesbian. However, When the film was made she was turned into a full blown carpet muncher.
61 pal Jacky // Oct 25, 2007 at 5:05 pm
and if vin diesel does anymore video game voiceovers, even if they are from a movie tie in. That character will be gay. ’nuff said.
62 JohnnyBoy // Oct 25, 2007 at 7:21 pm
I see where they’re actually gay rather than, you know, like, watching Dancing With The Stars ghey
63 pal Jacky // Oct 26, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Wanting to watch ‘dancing with the stars’ is a mental illness.. Watching clips on ‘the soup’ doesn’t count. I’m just itchin’ to see what that little troll Joel McCale does with Marie Osmond this week.
64 Stretch // Oct 26, 2007 at 4:00 pm
{WORD TO MARIE}
DON”T FORGET TO BREATHE ( Oh Crap!)
65 Stretch // Oct 26, 2007 at 4:04 pm
“was turned into a full blown carpet muncher.”
…but did the carpet match the drapes…?!
As seen on Two and 1/2 Men:
Morgan Fairchild (to Charlie Sheen): Want to hear a riddle?!
Charlie: OK?!
Morgan: What has multiple orgasms and hums…?
(Charlie shrugs)
Morgan: hmmmm Hmmmm Hmmmmm
66 pal Jacky // Oct 26, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Didn’t gwet a chance to see her carpet on the film. But the actress who played cybil did make lots of goo-goo eyes at Radha mitchell. If one remembers that Radha was in ‘pitch black’ the first ‘riddick’ film with Vin Diesel. One remembers that he did not make any goo goo eyes at Radha mitchell, even though she was suppose to be his love interest.
67 JohnnyBoy // Oct 26, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I forget where I heard this, but here goes:
If that kid gets any fatter,
they’ll have to call the show Two and 3/4 Men
68 JohnnyBoy // Oct 26, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I know more about Dancing With The Stars from listening to Stern than I want to know
69 RodRocket // Oct 28, 2007 at 1:48 pm
I love it when I find a long-forgotten box in my memory attic! That was YOU? Hah! I forgot about the father-daughter detail. Your Dad was wicked. No wonder I loved his show….
70 emroki // Oct 30, 2007 at 9:10 am
That’s precious! Even as a little girl, you were sharp and funny.
71 Pookie // Oct 31, 2007 at 8:15 am
Okay, I was here a few days ago and didn’t see this, and it’s dated last week! How do I keep missing these gems?!
You are MARVELOUS!!
Happy Gothday!
Chris
72 Lunesta-moth // Nov 2, 2007 at 11:07 am
10!
73 pal Jacky // Nov 2, 2007 at 4:06 pm
i was listening to Rosanne Cash’s ‘black cadillac’ cd about the death of her father. Its got an audio of child rosanne talking into the mike. It is also very sweet. Of course, she liked her dad and he was Johnney Cash. But nonetheless, its very sweet. The rest of the album is very ponderous and depressing and well ujp to the standarts of angst the Rosanne C. is known for “The wheel goes round….” look dad I sold out to bridgestone.
74 Shannon // Nov 4, 2007 at 1:01 am
Has no one else ever listened to April talk about her father? Sure at the time it was made he was probably affectionate but he fucked with her reality as a child and that’s like putting on clown make-up while a friend is on an acid trip.
Later he abandons her and her mother and the only legacy she has she sells to make money while other siblings she doesn’t know do get some financial benefits. He writes a book and doesn’t mention her.
Daddy dearest?
The fact that she is funny and seems mildly sane is amazing. Most women would have ended up a stripper on the pole.
Yet, she is gracious enough not to piss on the memories that people have of her father.
She is a better person than I…
75 JohnnyBoy // Nov 4, 2007 at 2:42 am
I can’t speak for April, but when all’s said and done, I’m reasonably happy with how I turned out, in spite of the fucked-up craziness that I grew up with from my parents
When my wife pointed out how nice it’d have been if my aunt and uncle (who treat her real well )were her inlaws instead of my parents (who always treated her like crap), I pointed out how undesirable it’d have been if I turned out like my cousins.
76 pal Jacky // Nov 4, 2007 at 11:33 am
I’m watching Hunter Tylo in a real bad Sci-Fi channel epic. It’s an ‘island of Dr. Mauro’ ripoff about genetic engineering people with sharks. She just lost her son in real life. He never was quite right and the report says he had some sort of seizure then fell in the pool and drowned. She won millions in a lawsuit from Aaron spelling over this kid when she was pregnant claiming she didn’t look pregnant. Mull that over. Here’s a tip. Gain more than five lbs if your pregnant.
77 JohnnyBoy // Nov 4, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Something’s up with her, could never quite put my finger on what made me uneasy about her
78 pal Jacky // Nov 4, 2007 at 1:40 pm
that’s easy. She won a big lawsuit because she didn’t look preggers when she was. The child came out a dipshit and finally died because of it. People don’t ever want to speak ill of pregnant women. it is kind of like those barren mothers who let Dr. Frankenstien zap their eggs and then have 10 fetuses growin inside and then claim its god’s will to have all of them. No, That concept of God’s will said you were infertile.
79 JohnnyBoy // Nov 4, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Well, yeah, that in itself is enough …..but I had this feeling the first time I saw her on some commercial….I really knew NOTHING about her….still didn’t until today when i looked it up
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