Captain Kangaroo – Backstage Flasher!
[Bob “Captain Kangaroo”] Keeshan, before going on stage, used to flash his sidekick, Hugh “Lumpy” Brannun, aka Mr. Green Jeans.
Morgan writes how one day “Lumpy” responded by taking things a step further.
“Unbeknownst to the little viewers, Cap’n Bob would take it upon himself to take out his ‘weenie,’ put a pencil under it, and wave it at Lumpy,” Morgan reports.
He goes on: “Then the Captain would come through the door, greet everyone, and hang the keys on the key hook. On with the show! So now, at the end of the program (which probably included credits), Bob was backstage reading the final voice-over…(and) during Bob’s final read, Lumpy pulled out his penis and began to pee on Bob’s leg. Thus another pee-on story. HR would never allow this to happen today.”
Eew.
Eew indeed!Keeshan also had a short fuse – but also a generous side to the people who made his show tick:
‘I came back from lunch one day and I noticed he’d gotten angry and annihilated this bird cage, Morgan wrote.
‘I said to a stagehand, “Should we call the ASPCA?” He said, “Don’t worry. It was a plastic canary.’
Despite his tantrums, Morgan said Keeshan was always generous at Christmas time.
‘Each year he would find a hot gift for everyone,’ he wrote. ‘Like a Texas Instruments calculator or a Casio watch.’
To the surprise of many in the public (but few in the broadcast industry, where rumors and tales have circulated for a few decades), Morgan also reveals that legendary newscaster Peter Jennings was, to put it very mildly, a hit with the ladies:
Click here for reuse options!Beloved late ABC anchor Jennings had no problem when it came to women, Morgan wrote in an excerpt obtained by the New York Post.
‘In between wives and girlfriends, he did very well,’ wrote Morgan, who revealed Jennings required the studio to be 48 degrees at all times.
‘He was a good-looking guy – tall, intelligent, well-spoken.’
Morgan recalled one memory when Jennings, who had just recently returned from a trip, was talking about how country singer Barbara Mandrell was ‘naughty’, his smile ‘like the Cheshire cat’.
Copyright 2015 Liberaland
By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
15 responses to Captain Kangaroo – Backstage Flasher!
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William August 9th, 2015 at 15:19
Thanks a lot. Chipping away at all I believed and held dear during my childhood.
whatthe46 August 9th, 2015 at 15:19
cracking up. awe, poor william. you’ll be ok.
rg9rts August 9th, 2015 at 16:43
I wonder was she an inny that became an outie??
Carla Akins August 9th, 2015 at 15:22
It’s okay, he didn’t flash kids – he was just a prankster.
Suzanne McFly August 9th, 2015 at 15:42
I hope the pencil was thrown out after
FatRat August 9th, 2015 at 16:05
Soupy Sales hired a stripper, Bill Cosby serial rapist, Donald Duck OT VIII level Scientologist and the despot King Friday the XIII practiced ius primae noctis. They’re all still better than the Duggars (19 Kids and Counting). lol
(WARNING female nudity) Soupy Sales stripper au naturel.
Soupy Sales Stripper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6f3uN2vVak
http://www.taylormarsh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/B2HXcVMCEAAissP.png
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0e/74/4a/0e744ad348a83de231af2408c8705051.jpg
rg9rts August 9th, 2015 at 16:45
With soupy ….he didn’t know…the crew hired her and when he was doing a white fang Black tooth routine….live…. she dropped her trench coat. No one but the crew saw
FatRat August 9th, 2015 at 16:49
You are absolutley correct. The Youtube video I posted was the recreation done in 1962. I twisted the facts a smidge for brevities sake.
http://www.detroitkidshow.com/naked_soupy.htm
rg9rts August 9th, 2015 at 17:18
He had stars lining up like Jon Stewart …only they would get a pie in the face..
rg9rts August 9th, 2015 at 16:42
Big deal….poor Soupy Sales was flashed while on the air…..nothing new there
azeyote August 9th, 2015 at 20:24
my wife can’t make an apple pie – but she sure can make my banana cream
azeyote August 9th, 2015 at 20:21
what made Tom Terrific?
burqa August 10th, 2015 at 21:53
same thing that made Tom Slick
robert August 10th, 2015 at 20:52
it might have been all in jest until the captain peed on someones leg or a bird cage
that falls under a mental disorder
burqa August 10th, 2015 at 21:53
I always preferred Mr. Greenjeans.
One creepy feature they had on that show was a sort of diorama they had set up. They’d be playing this instrumental music and inside the diorama box were a couple of white-gloved hands. Everything else was black and those damned hands would move around interpreting the music or something. The whole thing was too strange for words and I used to get up and change the channel because I not only disliked it, I found that bit disturbing….