In one Honeymooner film, Jackie Gleason and crew are in Britain, and Gleason has written a sketch for a Flaky-Wakey's cereal commercial as part of a requested promotion for the cereal whose contest he won. Norton twice tries to boost his role (incl. an oblique reference to his war limp)and make it a murder thriller, but Kramden has minimized all other roles -except his own ! Norton is to be the butler,who brings in the product and then leave.
As happens consistently often, stage fright seizes Kramden and reduces him to a stuttering,stammering babbler. The others perform the commercial brillaintly.
I can think of a few things related to this. In one Honeymooner film, Jackie Gleason and crew are i
