I was just watching a episode of a 1965 broadcast of The Mike Douglas Show on YouTube with Pinky Lee as one of the guests. He did a great rap dance number from a show he was appearing in around that time. He also proved he was a talented hoofer. I was amazed.

WOW! I had heard of Pinky Lee but was too young to watch him during his early '50s run. I recall when he attempted a comeback in the early '60s, but evidently that was foiled by people who tried to micro manage the show.

Just watching Pinky Lee frenetically dancing, running around, and interacting with the audience, running off between skits and animal performances made me mentally out of breath! He was obviously a master of his craft, and, as another reviewer noted, he was obviously an influence on others. I thought of Soupy Sales immediately!

"The Pinky Lee Show" preserves a wonderful moment in time when TV was live, and what one saw was what one got! And, it took a LOT of skill, and TALENT, to pull it off! All of this is hugely lacking in todays "entertainment" industry!

Thank you, thank you....THANK YOU, Pinky Lee!!!!

Used to make laugh happy as a child. Introduced to his talents in later reruns, but I did not know.

On a Skit in an episode of THE NATIONAL LAMPOON RADIO HOUR, in 1973, a police officer was going thru the effects of a possible suspect, and was naming off his personal effects... Comb, Wallet, contents of wallet, $2, license, membership card: PINKY LEE FAN CLUB... I don't know why, but that idiotic sequence stuck in my head til this day... probably because I had no idea what "Pinky Lee" meant until I just went to Wikipedia and looked up Pinky Lee, and followed the link here.
Someone mentioned in a earlier review, that you have to watch the video "all the way through"; well, I couldn't make it past 1 minute... I found it "extremely disturbing".

Been hearing about Pinky Lee all my life but am just now getting to see him for the first time, and I must say I'm impressed. The performer's energy connects with the viewer with the intensity of a high-wattage Spotlight. He makes Bozo the Clown look like a rest-home entertainer. Watching Pinky, you can see not only origins of Paul Reubens' Pee Wee Herman, but the inspiration for Soupy Sales, Jerry Lewis and Robin Williams. Whether they all saw him or not, Pinky's DNA is identifiable in what they did as well.

There are many out there watching this video having fond memories recalled - I'm just not one of them. That's not quite true - it brings back bad ones. That said, I am thankful to see it now as an adult to understand why this is. I was probably a bit too analytical as a child and I needed to understand "why". Being the type of program that it was, there was little time for the child to process it or have it explained. Either you found the lunacy exciting in its own right or you didn't. I didn't. Still a great look back so 4-Stars.

In 1955 Pincus Leff (a.k.a. Pinky Lee), a former burlesque comic, suffered what legend has ascribed as a heart attack on live TV and collapsed. According to a corrective interview with Lee in Gary Grossman's superb book "Saturday Morning TV," he insists he collapsed from exhaustion and an infection caused by a nasal drip, and fully recovered. Lee was the bane of New York Times columnist Jack Gould as well as parents who thought his hyperkinetic style of entertaining would affect his young viewers. Instead, it gave them (us) memories.

Loved this show as a kid and it's still fun 50+ years later. Just wanted to answer the question of what ever happened to Pinky: he lived well into his 80's (1907-1993), bless his heart! You can get the story here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498035/bio - Big thanks to whoever uploaded this one!

What the producers and performers of this show where thinking was to have an entertaining show for children. Pinky Lee was a former burlesque comic and I have to admire his energy and ability to keep the show moving along! I think it was nice of them to gift children of a children's hospital (not an orphanage) with a doll that was popular with children at the time. I cannot find anything "surreal" about this show and cannot imagine how anyone could unless they simply fail to understand this was a life television show, something the current knockleheads doing TV have no idea how to do, performed on a stage designed for children with a live audience of children.

I had not seen this show since the 1950's. I have wondered what ever happened to him. I was about 6 years old when the show was on TV in 1955. It came on about 2:30 or 3:00 in the afternoon and Howdy Doody came on right after it. I remember sneeking up from afternoon naps to watch it and getting caught one time by my grtandmother. How times have changed, it wouldn't even get on the air these days.

Well?

I honestly think it's better than "I Love Lucy".

Fast paced is an understatement. I would use the word frantic. As a side note, should they really be donating a crying doll to an orphanage ?

Words can not do justice to this bizarre artifact. Make sure to watch the whole thing--it is utterly surreal. It strains the imagination to fathom the intentions of those who produced this thing. What were they thinking?