Talk:Joe Pyne

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The article says it is controversial whether the exchange with Paul krassner occurred. I saw it. I can picture Krassner's smirk with his quick comeback. I have zero doubt that I saw it. I never heard about it after I saw it until today on Wiki. I suppose I cannot cite myself in the article for authority. Please do not respond with references to false memories. I can picture my black and white small TV screen during this episode and was not shocked by it, more a little turned off by both of them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:1384:41D1:503A:A6B2:E666:2C23 (talk) 20:51, 23 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

Pyne had a regular on his TV show whose main role was to ridicule controversial guests who deserved riducule. Pyne would keep a calm dignified attitude while his assistant would do the nasty work of insulting the guests.

Does anybody remember the name of this assistant? Greensburger 19:50, 25 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

I know that Pyne called this guy "Whiffenpoop", but I can't remember his real stage name. He was bald and short and never exhibited any particular affection for Pyne. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rogermx (talk • contribs) 03:49, 23 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

It was "Ozzie Whiffletree". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.143.173.178 (talk) 23:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

The following blog has the following on Whiffletree: http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_08_05.html

"The best thing about Pyne's TV shows was a local businessman named Ozzie Whiffletree. That, obviously, was not his real name. It was an identity he adopted because he was afraid of reprisals against his family and/or business. He began showing up in Pyne's "dock," where audience members could get up and debate him. Mr. Whiffletree, whom I recall looking like Gavin MacLeod on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, was a Liberal and a good arguer, and he put Pyne in his place a few times, playing Joseph Welch to the host's Joe McCarthy-like rants. Pyne and/or his producers apparently realized it was good television because they made Ozzie a regular on the show, promising to maintain his anonymity. I suspect Pyne came to regret that decision because he was sometimes reduced to stammering insults, and it began to seem like he was trying to make the show run long so there'd be no time for the bald guy. When Pyne's show finally went off the air, I don't think very many people missed him. But a lot of us missed Ozzie Whiffletree." Greensburger (talk) 18:10, 29 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Lester Maddox (the Georgia Governor) walked off Pyne's TV show during an interview broadcast, I believe, in November 1968. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.27.111.134 (talk) 01:19, 29 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

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