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(written on three Match Game cards…)
Ah… RIP Mr. Reilly. You helped fill many a boring day off from school when I was ill as a child.
Is that a TV show? I’ve never heard of it!
Paul Lynde may have been the funniest person to have ever lived. Watching the way he would crack up at his own jokes sent me into hysterics (and still does).
RIP CNR 
Loved you, man.
One, I had no idea he was still alive.
Two, I’m suprised that he would only be 76!
I’m guess he and Paul Lynde are having a blast right now.
whoa. he was indeed lucky to get to 76.
i enjoyed his performances on match game. a good guy.
Tom Waits, definitely, whether he had an album to hype or not.
This Reilly guy sounds like a lot of fun. I knew him from that classic X-Files episode, but it sounds like I missed a lot of classic stuff from him.
I knew him as ‘Claymore Gregg’ on The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV show), ‘Horatio J. Hoodoo’ on Lidsville, and from Match Game.
Oh yeah, his Match Game stuff was just hysterical. How he and Gene Rayburn got away with some of the things they said, I’ll never know.
It’s a parody of Baywatch, produced by Howard Stern.
I believe he stated that afterwards, he suffered from anxiety and hated crowds for that very reason. Poor guy.
He was also the “Giddy-up Gourmet” on the short-lived TV series “Arnie.” Reportedly, Graham Kerr was not happy with the character.
I too, am surprised he was only 76. I remember watching him on TV when I was a kid.
How dead is he?
(man, that classic Match Game “response” just doesn’t carry over well in print, does it?)
Anyway, if you can find old eps of Match Game on the Gameshow Network, it’s really worth it. CNR was a trip!
He’ll be missed
He was wonderful. I first saw him on “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” (I was soooo in love with Edward Mulhare), and my family watched him on Match Game all the time. My best memory of him, though, was when we saw him do his one-man show “Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly,” at the Irish Rep theater in Manhattan about 6 years ago. The show was very funny and poignant and he was just mesmerizing. The man could really tell a story.
Along with their less flaming Match Game compatriot, Ricahrd Deacon.
RIP Charles.
I’ll remember Reilly as Jose Chung, because I think that’s the best episode the X-Files ever did, but he actually played a larger role in my childhood as the star of the Rankin-Bass version of The Wind in the Willows. Lord knows how many times I watched that thing!
Same here, except CNR is also the first celebrity I ever remember having nightmares about. I’d be terrified at night when, as Hoodoo from Lidsville, he would chase me in that hat, but then the next day I’d see MatchGame and like him again. Probably symbolic of something but…
It’s a toss-up between “closet” and “rug”.
His last words to me were “Just remember that at the funeral you’ll be approached by a fellow Match Gamer you absolutely trust. He or she will want to set up a meeting to see about a revival. Your safety will be absolutely assured. That Match Gamer is the man who put Reilly and Rayburn in their graves- you will be assassinated.” I’m thinking he meant Dawson.
No news on Brett’s official website, but perhaps there will be when somebody tells her she has one and explains what it is again. There are advertisements for her “One Broad Show”, however.
One of my favorite MatchGame CNR v. Brett moments was from a 90s revival when Brett said about some fill-in-the-blank question that had to do with marriage “Well how the hell should I know? I’ve never been married so I don’t know these things.”
I’m not sure why she said this, but Brett Somers was married and constantly separating from/reuniting with Jack Klugman for many years from the 1950s-1970s. (They’re so close as ex-spouses that they’ve toured together with their one-person shows and appeared together on stage several times since their divorce.)
CNR made a comment “Everybody here knows you’ve been married Brett…”
Brett: Who? Who have I been married too?
CNR: I won’t say his name. I’ll just say that he left you for someone younger, prettier and more feminine. But then Tony left him too and he became a coroner.
Oh, snap!
Paul Lynde’s jokes were totally scripted. In real life he was an alcoholic and somewhat bitter man, apparently.