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Updated Put Down The Duckie

BEAR

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ISNorden said:
(I do wonder why the Supreme Court was on the new list, though; convincing all nine justices to take several days off for a taping sounds very difficult.)

Take several days off? Why do you think it would take so long to tape a 5 seconds shot in a song?
 

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The celebrities on the original 1988 celebrity version of Put Down the Duckie are:
* John Candy (as Yosh Schmenge of SCTV)
* Andrea Martin (as Edith Prickley of SCTV)
* The New York Mets (Keith Hernandaz and Mookie Wilson)*
* Jane Curtin (of SNL and Kate and Allie)
* Madeline Kahn
* Joe Williams
* Paul Reubens (as Pee-Wee Herman of Pee-Wee's Playhouse)*
* Ladysmith Black Mambazo
* Wynton Marsalis
* Celia Cruz
* Ihtzak Perlman
* Gordon Jackson and Jean Marsh (as Angus Hudson and Rose Buck of Upstairs Downstairs)
* Paul Simon
* Jeromy Irons
* Pete Seeger*
* Rhea Perlman and Danny Devito
* The New York Giants (Shawn Landeta, Marc Ingram, Carl Nelson, and Carl Banks)*

Key: * These celebrities were replaced July of 1991 when Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman) was arrested. And they replaced it with:

* Robert McNeil
* Gladys Knight and the Pips
* Phil Donahue
* Barbra Walters
 
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