Medfencer

I am looking for Madame’s Place 1982 epi’s. I have about 25 of the 75 episodes. YT is little help.
Anyone?!

Count Dooku

whotony

I don’t know what is happening.

ScottShot

Were you ever able to get more of the Madame's Place episodes? I have about 25 also (the first 20 plus a few more), but not many of the later episodes in the series. I ran a fan club for Madame when I was in grade school, based on the show. For me, this show was groundbreaking. Wayland Flowers created a completely believable lead character that carried the show, and yet she was a puppet.

I'd love to hear from other fans, especially if you have episodes you taped at the time!

Count Dooku

Feb 2018: First post, looking for Madame's Place episodes
two years later
Feb 2020: First post, I have Madame's Place episodes

Behold! The beauty of DVDTalk

Tav2367

I've just started to post "Madame's Place" episodes on my YouTube channel, called Tavs Television. I'm not allowed to post a link here until I reach 30 posts, sorry.

I've got 5 more VHS tapes to go through, so I'm going to get them all up in due time. Right now I have about 12 episodes uploaded from 1 VHS tape.
These were recorded off USA Network in 1989-1990, each tape recorded in 6 hour mode.

whotony

What
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Bleep

mike7162

Oh man, I loved that show! After SNL, my local station would run Sha Na Na and Madame's Place back to back(after SCTV). I'm definitely going to check out your YouTube channel!

anonimablus

Great channel with a lot of episodes, on TAVs Television, but I'm looking the episode 33. It would be great if I found it. Thanks

Count Dooku

It's a scientific fact that hardcore Madame's Place fans hibernate 10-11 months out of the year. They awaken from their slumber in late January and go back to sleep no later than mid-March. That's why February is when they do all their Madame's Place watching.

Eric F

What is this show and why have I never seen it?

Nick Danger

Madame was a puppet. She was old and scraggy, wore too much jewelry, and had a raunchy sense of humor. She was quick-witted enough to keep up with Carson and Letterman. Sadly, the puppeteer Waylon Flowers died of AIDS.

Count Dooku

I'd bet good money that David Letterman never had Waylon Flowers and Madame on his show, and I'd bet some money that Madame never did a non-scripted bit.

Nick Danger

I may be wrong about Letterman. The first video I clicked on was unscripted.

Count Dooku

Madame's comeback ("Oh gosh") to the interviewer's spontaneous comment about women showing their roots is comedy gold.

Nick Danger

You've moved the goalposts from "it's all scripted" to "some of the improv isn't funny enough."

I'm not even a fan, but that's silly.

Count Dooku

I thought the implication of my observation was obvious. It was scripted in the sense that the interviewers were asking pre-approved questions that Madame had prepared jokes for. This is not a scandal. This is very common when comedians are interviewed. The interviewers are given talking points to ask about because the comic has a prepared "hunk" on that subject.

And I know the female interviewer actually said, "This isn't scripted." But that just convinces me more that it is.

I was more reacting to the absurdity of this comment
at the idea that Flowers was Bill Burr with a puppet.

But let's take a moment to acknowledge that we have now spent more time thinking about Waylon Flowers and Madame than any other two people will in 2021.

bluebag1290

Has anyone ever found episode 33 of Madame’s Place?

GuessWho

4 posts above arrive in Februarys from 1-post members. WTF?

ScottShot

Wayland Flowers began doing Madame in bars to get people to buy him drinks. You think he was doing that with only scripted material? The man was a genius-- quick-witted and brilliant. Watch Sid Krofft's interview with Terry Fator and they both praise Wayland as "a genius."

Did he have jokes he wrote or re-use? Of course. Every comedian does. But you didn't go on Hollywood Squares with a script. Watch his stuff on Solid Gold. That was adlibbed. That was how he could make the other guests like Bill Cosby and Chevy Chase crack up, drop their jaws and gasp with laughter.

You underestimate his gift because you haven't really experienced it. The man created a fully-formed character in Madame who is still unmatched in her characterization or sense of humor. Seek out more of Wayland's work, Docku. I think you will develop more of an appreciation for his talent.

Count Dooku

The jokes on Hollywood Squares were scripted.