Pat Paulsen

Pat Paulsen was born on Jul 06, 1927 in USA. Pat Paulsen's big-screen debut came with The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour - Season 2 directed by Marty Pasetta in 1967, strarring Self. Pat Paulsen is known for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour directed by Marty Pasetta, Tom Smothers stars as Self - Co-Host and Dick Smothers as Self - Co-Host. The most recent award Pat Paulsen achieved is Primetime Emmy Awards. The upcoming new movie Pat Paulsen plays is Auntie Lee's Meat Pies which will be released on Oct 21, 1992.

Pat Paulsen was a comedian specializing in satire who thrived on television in the late 1960s. The highlight of his career came in the watershed year 1968 when - emulating Gracie Allen''s quixotic 1940 Presidential bid as the Surprise Party candidate - he launched his own campaign for the U.S. presidency on the STAG (Straight Talking American Government) ticket. His campaign started out as a filmed gag run weekly on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," lampooning the pretensions of American politicians. One sequence had Pat making a campaign stop, unfolding the small ladder-stool he used to stand on while speaking to the voters, and addressing an empty rail-yard. Since there was a camera there, it didn't really matter, as Newt Gingrich found out in his own rise in politics in the 1980s, when he made a name for himself addressing speeches to members of the House in an empty chamber. Since it was filmed by Congressional video cameras, it appeared Gingrich was taking on powerful people who were, in reality, not even there. As a politician, Pat Paulsen was ahead of his time.