"I'll take Paul Lynde." Not so very long ago, a lifetime ago, those words took Americans somewhere wicked. In the '70s, if that sentence was uttered by a contestant on Hollywood Squares, lights would ...

Paul’s Halloween special is a particularly memorable product of this point in his career. The newish president of ABC, Fred Silverman, decided that “there’s something essentially witchy about Paul ...

Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly and Rip Taylor get a cursory mention in a new documentary about queer stand-up, but they were groundbreaking. By Erik Piepenburg In 1987, David Letterman was taping ...