Marty Allen passes
Bobo sends us the sad news that comedian Marty Allen (born Morton David Alpern) passed at the age of 95 yesterday from pneumonia complications.
He served in Italy during World War II. According to Wiki;
He was stationed in Italy where he attained the rank of sergeant and earned a Soldier’s Medal for his bravery during a fire which happened while a plane was being refueled. His heroism also earned him a full-dress parade.
Category: We Remember
Hello dere!
It may be repeated by all. For those of you who don’t know, Allen was a regular on TV in the 60s/70s and always used “Hello dere!” (pronounced dare)as his calling card. In addition to WW II Army service, he visited wounded troops stateside 1968-72.
ya beat me tuit
No, no, no. I would love to see it as many times as folks want to type it. I just happened to be first.
On a boring midwatch on Yankee Station in the early 70’s,someone would periodically get on the radio circuit and say “Hello dere”. After a few instances of this, some senior officer got on the line and gave a long harrangue about circuit discipline, etc. After a long pause some wiseacre went on the line and said “who dat?”. I almost fell over laughing
That’s funny as hell.
Rest in peace Mr. Allen. Thanks for the laughs.
Marty Allen: “Hello, dere.”
St. Peter: “Hello, yourself. Welcome to the show. I’d say go out and kill ’em, but everyone here has already died their allotted once.”
RIP
Way back when I was in high school I worked at the coffee shop in the Sahara Hotel as a busboy. One evening Marty Allen went back behind the partition were did this and that and started fixing himself a sandwich. I told him to take a hike. Didn’t know he was a star… He gave read me the riot act in two languages, almost got me fired, and then he than after finishing his meal Marty left me a very impressive tip ($$$) before he headed back to his show.
Rest easy, Marty and thank you for the many smiles I’ve enjoyed while recalling our meeting.
Hello dere!
Got to see him in a small venue once. A superbly funny man.
Rest in Peace.
From the Hollywood Squares:
Peter Marshall: Marty, you’re from Pittsburgh, right?
Marty Allen: Pittsburgh, yeah.
PM: Well, what does a guy from Philadelphia dunk his pretzel in?
MA: A girl from New Jersey!
Thanks for the laughs, Mr. Allen. I’m sure you got a rousing “Hello dere!” when you got to the Pearly Gates.
That troll hair!
Funny guy on all the late nite shows.
Rest in peace brother.
Saw this guy with his entourage of Vegas show girls while they were entertaining Bethesda Naval Hospital 68. They were eating in the cafeteria across from some badly burned wounded. I have since learned while Marty serving WW2, rescued a crew from a burning plane being refueled by driving away the fuel truck and putting out the flames, rolling on them with his body. He had an affinity for burn victims.
Salute