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The Pete Puma "tea" bit was an old routine performed by the comedian and singer Frank Fontaine. He was a character actor in a few movies, and was better-known for being a stand-up performer. He sometimes appeared on old-time radio shows like Jack Benney's, as a character voice performer (as did Mel Blank) and later was a regular on the old Jackie Gleason "American Scene" TV variety series. There are YouTube clips of him doing his act out there.

The routine started as a story told by his character "John L. C Sivoney" who later became "Crazy Guggenheim."

"How many lumps you want" has been copied over and over as well.

The voice of Pete Puma was done by Stan Freidberg who was pretty open about having paralleled Fontaine's character.

According to members of Fontaine's family, whom I had the pleasure of knowing many years back, Fontaine and Blanc and other voice actors would often gather at for-the-families holiday parties at the studios and tell the kids stories, and do all of the voices as they told them. One can only imagine.

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