America has lost a television pioneer,
and through reruns of beloved part of the Pixel 11
family,
we're talking about Alice from the Honeymooners.
Actress Joyce Randolph is dead,
passing away in New York,
the last surviving honeymooner cast performer performing with Jackie Gleason,
who played Ralph Clarendon, Art Carney,
who played Ed Norton, and Audrey Meadows,
who played Alice. She was Trixie.
Excuse me.
Between us, hint around always to face the camera,
because when he turns profile Brother,
he's the biggest thing on television.
All right, Picks, Elevens own Katie Tong interviewed Joyce Randolph
a decade ago.
Listen to this. Is there one quality that you attribute
to its longevity?
I think because it was funny,
clean, clean and funny. We would do it once.
And then we'd all Jackie would disappear and his dressing
room,
and we all went to Audrey's dressing room.
And ran the lines over and over with her manager,
reading in Jackie's words. And that's how we got through
it.
Randolph was born in Detroit.
She made her way to New York,
hired for the show when Jackie Gleason saw her in
a chewing gum commercial.
She later said she never expected the show to make
TV history.
Joyce Randolph, 99 years old.