Jackie Gleason : skit where Jackie says 'you're a nice man'

skit where Jackie says 'you're a nice man'

Jackie does tasks in this kit according to instructions from this man (??). At the
end of each task he comes up to him and says "you're a nice man". I don't
know if this is a Honeymooners skit or something else or something earlier.
Anybody have any idea?? Thanks!

Re: skit where Jackie says 'you're a nice man'

The character was called Fenwick Babbitt.

Re: skit where Jackie says 'you're a nice man'

I always got him and "the Poor Soul" confused...

(To err is human, to forgive, canine...)

Re: skit where Jackie says 'you're a nice man'

As Ungerreese noted already, the character is Fenwick Babbitt. This was not from the Honeymooners, however. Fenwick Babbitt was a reoccurring character on the Jackie Gleason Show (along with other characters like Reggie van Gleason III, the Poor Soul, Charlie Bratton the Loudmouth, Joe the Bartender, and Rudy the Repairman, among others). Jackie did numerous Fenwick Babbitt skits, and "you're a nice man" was alway the character's catchphrase.

Re: skit where Jackie says 'you're a nice man'

Is 7 years later too late to answer? Fenwick Babbitt was the Poor Soul. In some skits he said "You're a nice man". Other skits were in pantomime. The background music in the silent sketches was always "Tenderly".

Re: skit where Jackie says 'you're a nice man'

No, they're separate characters. In the lost Honeymooners Xmas show where Jackie appears as all his characters one by one, both Fenwick and the PS show up.

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I didn't see that show and can't comment but, throughout the run of the Jackie Gleason Show, they were the same. Can you cite any differences between the allegedly two different characters?

Re: skit where Jackie says 'you're a nice man'

Like the Poor Soul, Fenwick did not have a mean bone in his body and he was very naive. Unlike the Poor Soul he was not pantomime, so he was the one who said "you're a nice man." The Poor Soul never said a word, he was more like a Chaplin character and Jackie relied on physical comedy for that character. He later did a Poor Soul like character in his movie Gigot. Neither character could really catch a break and you did tend to feel sorry for them. In the Christmas episode Fenwick and the Poor Soul both appear.

Re: skit where Jackie says 'you're a nice man'

To me, they were the same character only some skits he talked and some skits he didn't.

Re: skit where Jackie says 'you're a nice man'

Well, the skits he spoke in were the Fenwick skits and in the Poor Soul skits he played a mute. The Poor Soul skits were more heart-breaking than the Fenwick skits, I thought.
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