Does anyone have a link to the clip where Jackie does a custard pie demonstration on a guy stooge only to be hit in the face with pies by a load of ladies afterwards? ...and if so please can they post it? I think it was posted on here a few years back.

Here is the start....would be good to see the whole skit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TrtFhe-aew

he did the skit at least 2 times, there is color and b&W version.
also maybe his idea? see below quote from
http://www.oocities.org/gctz1one/pied/100best.html

"Jackie is on stage when several different showgirls come out and smash 15 pies into Jackie's face. Intriguingly, Jackie was one of only two comedians of his day (Milton Berle was the other) to maintain creative control of his TV program from start to finish. I wonder if this scene was Jackie's idea."

Many thanks to both of the above UMD members for their posts (I've been away and only just noticed them)

Good to get more info, pics and clips on this wonderful routine.

I didn't realize he did the bit twice. You can tell because the background curtain is different; it isn't that one tape was color and the other was in B&W.

Gleason did repeat bits a lot.

The black dancer was Duke Ellington's granddaughter, and a biography of Gleason suggested he was a total prig to her.

Still can't find the name of the nerd sidekick.