Ernie Kovacs matches wits with Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life, March 31, 1958.
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@lauraalittle11 жыл бұрын
Two cigars? That poor young woman. That aside, these two guys are wonderful together. It's a shame Kovacs didn't live longer. He was amazing. Thanks for this posting!
@scottmoore16144 жыл бұрын
I often think about what kind of amazing career Kovacs would have had, if he’d lived. So very sad! He was so far ahead of his time.
@julienielsen37463 жыл бұрын
Had to live with my dad's smoking when I was a little kid. Didn't think about second hand smoke back in the early 60s.
@13thcentury2 жыл бұрын
2 cigars? Where was hers?
@patfromamboy Жыл бұрын
@@robertlebrini7845 when there was more racism and women were treated like dogs. Heaven for Trump supporters.
@TheBatugan77 Жыл бұрын
That poor woman didn't whine. I miss that.
@voicegirl5555 жыл бұрын
Happy 100th Birthday Ernie Kovacs! You were soooooo funny and so very talented. Gone much too soon.
@MosaicRose995 жыл бұрын
Ernie was one of the best. :)
@terrymaccarrone99277 ай бұрын
The Nirobi Trio Sollifreggio
@luisreyes19638 жыл бұрын
2 of the greatest comedic wits on the same show! It's like seeing a lunar eclipse for the first time! Thanks for the laughs, Ernie Kovacs & Groucho Marx!!
@jubalcalif910015 күн бұрын
I heartily concur !
@ahab34512 жыл бұрын
A lot of people today have forgotten Ernie Kovacs..He was a Television innovator
@nhmooytis7058 Жыл бұрын
I’m old so I remember watching both Ernie and Groucho on TV!
@notvalidcharacters Жыл бұрын
@@nhmooytis7058 I'm so old we had to walk uphill both ways to watch them.
@nhmooytis7058 Жыл бұрын
@@notvalidcharacters I’m so old my babysitter was a velociraptor. I’m lucky to still be here but she was a vegan.
@alilacherruse Жыл бұрын
(to be read in the ghost of Groucho's voice) "Many more people have never even heard of us"
@sojournersblues12 жыл бұрын
This is priceless... My two favorite comedians on the same stage.
@jubalcalif910015 күн бұрын
Yes !
@loiscandler814 Жыл бұрын
Two of my very favorites of all time! Groucho & Ernie together! 🥰🤗 what a lucky lady to be in the presence of those two comedy geniuses! 😊
@franknew9001 Жыл бұрын
She was lucky except for the cigar smoke.
@terrymaccarrone99277 ай бұрын
Smile Folks That's All There Is.
@poetcomic111 жыл бұрын
SO COOL the way they banter and feed each other lines, each with a cigar and a moustache, totally attuned to each other.
@jubalcalif910015 күн бұрын
They were both GREAT ad libbers. Two true icons of comedy.
@ITILII6 жыл бұрын
Groucho and Ernie, 2 guys with mustaches, smoking cigars who were absolutely comedic geniuses.
@Syncopator5 жыл бұрын
Nice one-- didn't know these two comic geniuses got to interact like this-- a real gem. The fact that Ernie saw the secret word while he was in the audience before he got pulled up to sub and then took advantage of it, was priceless...
@jmccracken196311 жыл бұрын
In fact, Sanita Pelkey was born on 20 November 1935 in New York City. She had bit parts in five films: PARTY GIRL (1958), MISSILE TO THE MOON (1958), GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW (1959), A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN (1967), and HELLO, DOLLY! (1969). She was married to Rex Reason for a little over a year (August 1962 to August 1963). She died of cancer in Las Vegas on 15 January 1994 - at the age of only 58.
@tuxguys8 жыл бұрын
This is pure gold... Kovacs, one of the pioneers of, not just TV, but VIDEO, will die from a tragic car crash in about two years. Kovacs actually had a film career of some note: Groucho mentions "Operation Mad Ball," a favorite Jack Lemmon movie of mine, which was arguably a template for, if not "Sgt. Bilko," then, perhaps, "Hogan's Heroes;" he's also very good, and rather subtle, in a movie with Kirk Douglas and Kim Novak, "Strangers When We Meet." (Incidentally, the "Mr. Goren" he's replacing at the beginning was a world-famous authority on the card game, Bridge, Charles H. Goren.)
@ChristopherUSSmith5 жыл бұрын
Hogan's Heroes was more a humorous Stalag 17.
@ApartmentKing664 жыл бұрын
Actually, Ernie Kovacs had another 4 years left. His car crash was in 1962, and this was 1958.
@seththomas9105 Жыл бұрын
@@ApartmentKing66 Crazy isn't it? Ernie was only 43 when he died in the car crash.
@TheRecordSaver12 жыл бұрын
The girl's name was Sanita Pelkey.. She was a beauty queen and later appeared in some films..
@jubalcalif910015 күн бұрын
She's no Hope Emerson (hubba hubba!) but Ms. Pelkey was indeed one lovely young lady!
@orchardist65298 жыл бұрын
Ernie Kovacs always seemed to be relaxed and therefore could put people around him at ease, a great gift. If you could draw a friendly face it would look like Ernie Kovac.
@andymassingham8 жыл бұрын
There could only have been one, but the world needs another Ernie Kovacs! Rockin the cardigan/jacket look!
@KeithDec254 жыл бұрын
Cigar meets cigar Classic meeting between two quick wits
@suzihoude3 жыл бұрын
i love how they are working off each other without trying to outdo each other.
@BrooklynJackBlue9 жыл бұрын
This is, in my experience, the only time where I can see Groucho working off of someone else at the same level on this game show. Of course he'd been on radio and film and television opposite Jack Benny and Jolson and Hope, and so on and so forth, but I have to say? I'm absolutely charmed by this interaction. Two men who operate on inspiration and improv, and to hear Groucho dish out compliments? It might not be unheard of, but it's certainly to be enjoyed. Thank you for uploading this video!
@theoxley8 жыл бұрын
+Justin Kalman Groucho use to give out compliments all the time...problem was, the recipient of the compliment had a hard time taking him seriously because of his persona. He thought Dan Rowan and Bud Abbot were great straight men. Groucho said that in a comedy team, the straight man was the one who set up the situation....with out that, they had nothing.
@vestibulate6 жыл бұрын
Justin Kalman Kovacs is good, but the only comedian I know who could really keep up with Groucho's unscripted quips was Fred Allen. There are recordings of the two of them riffing on live radio, and it's something to hear.
@feralbluee2 жыл бұрын
so well put - wish i could have said that as well. salud to Ernie Kovacs :)
@radicalross77002 жыл бұрын
Groucho would know. He had several straight men from Zeppo to George Finneman and one straight woman, Margaret Dumont.
@gwenniegirl50 Жыл бұрын
@@radicalross7700 agreed. Margaret Dumont didn’t realize she was the straight woman though. To her, she was acting but never understood the comedy
@BrooklynJackBlue9 жыл бұрын
Good lord, I LOVE watching Groucho and Ernie work off each other with quips! Neither one gives up a joke!
@Celluloidwatcher5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading the video, featuring two comedic giants...Groucho Marx and Ernie Kovacs. We will never see the likes of them again, sadly. But they made people laugh hysterically in the not-so-long ago. Their comedy is timeless.
@jubalcalif910015 күн бұрын
Indeed!
@WhoFlungPoo20246 күн бұрын
What I would have given to be in the audience to see these two comic geniuses alibiing this irreplaceable work. RIP Groucho and Ernie.
@TheRecordSaver12 жыл бұрын
The man who stepped aside to let Kovacs onstage was none other than Contract Bridge guru Charles Goren..
@theoakhills5 жыл бұрын
Yes he popularized and developed the game of "bridge" b.1901....d.1991
@stratocat6911 жыл бұрын
WOW...thought I had seen everything of my 2 favorite comics of all time.Together?...just wow.This is an amazing clip and thank you to the person who posted it.
@michaelmapes41197 жыл бұрын
Two of the most funniest moustaches that ever smoked a cigar!
@zensorrow112 жыл бұрын
5:55 classic line "It's dishonost, but since this is counterfeit money, we don't care."
@kyokogodai-ir6hy6 жыл бұрын
This stuff is a blessing!! Thank you so very much for sharing it with us!!
@LeonAllanDavis6 жыл бұрын
"Go over there and sit down and if I don't see you later, I'll get in touch with Edie!" Ernie Kovacs was married to Edie Adams. The blonde is pretty but Edie makes her look like a 6th Grade school kid. Less than four years after this was aired, Kovacs smashed his Corvair station wagon into a light pole and was partially ejected. Not wearing his seat belt. Edie never really got over his death. Kovacs was a special guy.
@RingJando5 жыл бұрын
to each his own - this girl has it!
@davhuf34965 жыл бұрын
Jolene Brand!
@joemancini29884 жыл бұрын
I never got over it, either. TV was never funny again.
@boggy76654 жыл бұрын
I don't think 1961 cars had seat belts, did they? They may have been optional. Did Kovac's car have optional belts? California's first seat belt law took effect January 1, 1964.
@LeonAllanDavis4 жыл бұрын
@@boggy7665 I had a Corvair with seat belts. Also an Austin Healy. A '56 VW. Both had seat belts. I cannot remember having an older car without belts. Back in the day a lot of people didn't wear seat belts even when their cars had them. They believed it was better to be "thrown clear of the wreckage" during an accident. Back in the late 60's I had a friend who never wore his belt. Only pussies wore seat belts, he said. He had an accident at high speed and was impaled on the speed limit sign. Didn't die right away. I always wore my belts. Saved my life three or four times.
@mikec22505 жыл бұрын
Ernie Kovacs was a favorite for many of us in the late 50's. Have a Muriel?
@ChristopherUSSmith5 жыл бұрын
You mean Dutch Masters. :) Edie did Muriel ads. (I know, they were both made by Consolidated Cigar....)
@jubalcalif910015 күн бұрын
How wonderful to see two comedy icons on the same stage! Thanks for sharing this cool clip! It's pretty good quality too!
@auletjohnast036383 жыл бұрын
THE GIRL BESIDE KOVACS WAS SUPER BEAUTIFUL.
@kbchaffin536 жыл бұрын
I was five back then and a big fan of both these guys. I remember Wondering, "Why do comedians have moustaches and smoke cigars?"
@johnnyj01044 жыл бұрын
I can't help think about the smell of that closed studio with all that cigar smoke!
@frankkolton17804 жыл бұрын
Yes, that had to smell wonderful, I appreciate and miss the smell of good cigars too. On my ninetieth birthday I will light up a nice cigar again in celebration, my doctors be damned. It gives me something to look forward to.
@ApartmentKing664 жыл бұрын
@@frankkolton1780 I think it was Woody Allen who said that if he had to give up things he liked in life to live to 100, he wouldn't want to live to 100.
@jmccracken196311 жыл бұрын
This is HILARIOUS!!!!! Thank you very much for sharing this with us!!!!!
@woodledog11 жыл бұрын
Moustache Meets Moustache. Chaos ensues.
@lbcharlie0511 жыл бұрын
If the comedic talents of these two GIANTS could have been bottled and preserved? I hope the 'poor young women' realized what she was a part of at the time, and not worried about those evil cigars. Thanks for posting this gem.
@MsLilyhorse10 жыл бұрын
What a lovely young woman.
@MsLilyhorse10 жыл бұрын
***** Yes. Nice clothes, hair and manners. Lady-like and pleasant. A rarity these days.
@Hagfan7898 жыл бұрын
+MsLilyhorse Very much so..She looks to be good marrying material..A tough find these days.
@BrianBattles7 жыл бұрын
Really? Where do you live?
@jmshaw3576 жыл бұрын
amen, brother!
@NoctilucentArts6 жыл бұрын
That's a sexy young burlesque girl named Sanita Pelkey - google her - yowza!! She knew how to strip.
@MosaicRose998 жыл бұрын
I love the look on their faces as Ernie first approaches in the beginning. They look star stuck. :)
@FIREBRAND38 Жыл бұрын
I'll say Ernie Kovacs had children. A few years before this episode aired he had just recovered his two daughters after they'd been kidnapped by his ex-wife.
@daveconleyportfolio51926 жыл бұрын
Strangely enough, what made these two greats really click was ... George Fenneman! Somebody needed to be the straight man for this kind of pairing, and Fenneman's intrusive restatements of the obvious made him an ideal whipping boy.
@bobthetvfan5 жыл бұрын
If you're referring to his constant reminders of how many they have right or wrong, remember that the show also aired on radio so it would have been necessary for the listening audience to know how they were doing. As for being a "whipping boy," Fenneman never minded at all; about the only thing that could rile him would be for someone to say something derogatory about Groucho.
@PRR540611 жыл бұрын
The two funniest men who ever delivered a response. Kovacs was my idol, but Groucho, Chico, and Harpo, were in a class of their own. No swearing, just funny juxtaposition. We have fallen so far from humor.
@LenHummelChannel8 жыл бұрын
classic and absurdist in every sense of the word. two geniuses at what they did and loved. thanks.
@billyshepard55145 жыл бұрын
Kovacs lost control of his Chevrolet Corvair station wagon while turning quickly and crashed into a power pole at the corner of Wilshire and "Big" Santa Monica Boulevards in Beverly Hills. He was thrown halfway out the passenger side and died almost instantly from chest and head injuries.[128] A photographer managed to arrive moments later, and images of Kovacs dead appeared in newspapers across the United States
@kathyvarela2215 Жыл бұрын
I recently saw an interview with one of Ernies daughter. She. Said that it appeared as he was focusing more on lighting a cigar.Plus she said that he was very tired. When they described the accident about how he died.Sounds so grizzly way to die.No seat belt
@davidmorley16063 жыл бұрын
We need comedians like these today
@mickeymousebiker111 жыл бұрын
Steven Van Zandt (The Underground Garage) sent me here. Thank you, Steven, for your tribute to Ernie Kovacs and The Marx Brothers. Where has our world gone since this show first aired? I dedicate this video to my pop, who, like Ernie Kovacs, left this world all-too-soon. My pop and I liked Ernie Kovacs and The Marx Bros.
@JJJBRICE4 жыл бұрын
He drove Edie Adams flimsy Corvair home after a party a party and lost control . That was a man protecting his own .
@theolamp53126 жыл бұрын
2 of the top comedians of all time. They were both able to shoot of the hip with great success.
@steveperry134418 күн бұрын
i used to watch ernie kovacs' offbeat zany show as a kid and felt a loss when he left us so soon, always watched groucho too and still do.
@michaelg.golden732720 күн бұрын
I wish they had more get togethers. Two geniuses of comedy.
@d.l.l.65787 ай бұрын
Amazing they could smoke cigars inside a tv studio and no one seems to mind. Those things smell to high heaven.
@EugeneHeck10 жыл бұрын
At 1:36 Groucho gets in a plug for Operation Mad Ball (Columbia Pictures 1957). It's included in "The Jack Lemmon Film Collection", a 6-disk set of DVDs. Per liner notes: "In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer." Kovacs played the officer.
@GUITARTIME20247 жыл бұрын
this classy lady is wonderful. take note, screaming millenial tatoo trainwrecks.
@bobtaylor1704 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, a woman like that is probably beyond reclamation.
@stevebutler8124 жыл бұрын
She actually had a somewhat odd life, sadly. www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/323/Sanita+Pelkey/index.html
@josephcostello6954 жыл бұрын
GuitarGuy the train wrecks of today don’t have the time or the common sense to check this out. People had a bit more decorum back in the day.
@skullbleu81663 жыл бұрын
Been a fan of kovacs and Groucho since I was a kid - am happily covered in ink, so, go figure. Take refuge in your pointless stereotyping.
@dakotab2913 жыл бұрын
My god, right! I wish women were still like this
@ElectrologyNow3 жыл бұрын
Oh, that poor woman ... between TWO cigars! She probably "tossed it" after the show.
@kali366511 ай бұрын
Cut the segue to this classic appearance. The original contestant was Charles Goren, the master Bridge player. After a few riffs with Groucho, he announced that he would step down for a substitute player who turned out to be Ernie Kovacs. Fenneman quickly slipped in, "Well, if Ernie Kovacs is coming on stage, we'd better go to commercial while we have the chance!" Which is why, at the end, Ernie started screaming out the Secret Woid since he was in the audience when it was called out earlier. Groucho: "It's dishonest, but since this is counterfeit money, we don't care." 🤣🤣 Two comic geniuses on the same stage. Fantastic.
@csu35245 жыл бұрын
Rip Kovacs only 42 and died in an accident.
@jubalcalif910015 күн бұрын
Sad but true. He lost control of his Corvair station wagon & crashed into a pole on the rainy January streets of Los Angeles.
@Monkofmagnesia12 жыл бұрын
Two of my heroes together! Thanks for posting this.
@robertdiotalevi288211 жыл бұрын
"Who is this President, Jim Clinton?" Ernie meant "Bill!"
@bobthetvfan5 жыл бұрын
I pointed out above that Jim Clinton owned a men's clothing store in Los Angeles, and the joke is funnier now because we have had a President named Clinton. If Ernie had indeed said "Bill," all of us who have seen this clip would probably drop dead of shock at Ernie's foresight.
@voodoo493 жыл бұрын
@@bobthetvfan Thanks for jogging my memory. I grew up in the Valley in the 50's & 60's, and now I remember his commercials on TV, along with Vic Tanney, Earl Scheib , Cal Worthington & Ralph Williams.
@suziemills22016 жыл бұрын
The good old days
@medievalman717 жыл бұрын
Ernie Kovacs smoked cigars and drank beer on television. Standards and Practices would be apoplectic!
@garryferrington8112 жыл бұрын
People were more laid back about some things then. Not about others. You see how everyone wears a jacket and tie, while the ladies have full makeup. You can't enjoy a good cigar anymore, but you can dress like a slob.
@ajjackson15264 жыл бұрын
Only a few years later Kovacs would be killed in a car wreck. sad
@ExMachina70 Жыл бұрын
Groucho and Moustache could have been a comedy duo of the eons. They worked so well off each other I found it to be amazing. Edit Admittedly, I'm going this play by play but I laughed so hard as Groucho did at his comment. I KNEW these two had chemistry together and I know I'm not the first to see it, but it's great to see what we all can at least appreciate the moment they both had together.
@fromthesidelines12 жыл бұрын
The March 31st air date was the RADIO version of the show [Mondays, 8:05-8:30pm(et)]- slightly different from the TV soundtrack in that it was a 25 minute show, and some exchanges had to be eliminated for "time". April 3rd was the TV edition [Thursdays, 8-8:30pm(et)], with Lever Brothers [Pepsodent, Wisk] as sponsor, as the back wall illustrates...
@gordonmorris63592 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Ernie's movies were great.
@yvonnewright35273 жыл бұрын
Groucho was a wonderful man.
@MoonMonkeyMCM24 күн бұрын
Love them both so much.
@richardbuchanan712423 күн бұрын
It's gratifying to see someone who could actually keep up with Groucho.
@thecursor17 жыл бұрын
Oh this isn't just a battle of wits, it's a comedy slugfest.
@tonybmusic11666 күн бұрын
When I was a kid I faithfully watched him on TV and in every single movie he was in. I remember when he sick and tired of playing military brass in movies and took out a full page ad in variety (I think) telling Hollywood to stop. Steve Allen’s tonight show was national and used to get away with stealing Ernie’s material from his local New York show. The guy was a comedic genius and his character Percy Dovetonsils was even featured in Mad magazine.
@monsterzero96076 жыл бұрын
NAME! NAME! NAME! NAME!
@vanceblosser215522 күн бұрын
I was 7 years old when he died. I was terribly saddened to hear of his death.
@robertszvetics2106 жыл бұрын
never mind fennniman
@darryle-ov4oy Жыл бұрын
The show blessed today a😊is priceless 😅
@kurtnmia11 жыл бұрын
TV used to be so good.
@lucycatism12 жыл бұрын
I am half Hungarian, thanks to my Mom. His last name is pronounced "kovach"
@jaywar698 жыл бұрын
Great clip. Ernie was a cool cat as was Groucho! Sanita Pelkey is the young beautiful girl. I swear she must have been a relative to Rachel McAdams.
@feralbluee2 жыл бұрын
Ernie Kovacs was wonderful. why? why? why? sometimes life is just too sad. poor Edie. devastation doesn’t even start to cover it. great show!! :) 😋
@GUITARTIME20247 жыл бұрын
Kovaks died not long after this was filmed. Car accident in LA.
@larryaldrich435113 күн бұрын
Ernie was a great guy. He left us way too early.
@katlynlykstad58104 жыл бұрын
You have one right. -thanks. You bet. 🤣🤣🤣 hahaha
@ksteiger7 жыл бұрын
I love the 1950s hottie!
@cardinalsfan81822 жыл бұрын
2 absolute comedy legends!!!
@Daniel-nf8pp5 жыл бұрын
People had higher standards of respectable and moral behavior. The whole world has changed.
@ChristopherUSSmith5 жыл бұрын
And trysts are more quickly exposed now than 60 years ago too.
@SleepyBoBos5 жыл бұрын
Yes, the way Ernie treated that girl as an object is a perfect example of that.
@philipm069 жыл бұрын
Just seen 'Bell Book and Candle' (1959) - and thought, who is this guy?
@stevenj9970 Жыл бұрын
Two GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ckom00074 жыл бұрын
Two heaters at the same time? Lucky they didn’t have smoke detectors back then!
@stephenperretti8847 Жыл бұрын
I remember the photos of his death on thrthe front page of the newspaper. It was so painful. I watched his TV shows.
@thepollywog111 жыл бұрын
I don't smoke, but most of my life was spent next to smokers. At work, in bars, my parents, my friends. Cigs, cigars, pipes, quebabs (roll yer owns). One uncle even smoked a hookah. You just coughed and put up with it. I like it so much better now.
@NellsStuff4 жыл бұрын
I believe Kovacs smoked Havanas... but don't quote me on that... Notice how quiet he could be when not quite "on", too?
@madogblue6 жыл бұрын
Poor girl sandwiched between 2 walls of smoke. Can you imagine walking up next to someone 1 foot away and lighting up a cigar?
@johnnyb92189 жыл бұрын
The pretty girl has beautiful manners. Not like some cheap girls today in leotards & tats. I'm young & I probably sound old fashioned but women just seemed so much nicer back then.
@BrianBattles7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, sure.
@jmshaw3576 жыл бұрын
here here
@davidfarley72856 жыл бұрын
Sanita Pelkey, model, showgirl, actress (GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW). The original radio version of this episode has a lot more of her being utterly charming.
@MarkRoberts-bj2me6 жыл бұрын
@ Johnno Women were much nicer back then. People in general were much nicer back then. The 50's, although panned these days as being conformist and boring, was actually a golden decade America experienced after the War. Ike was in the White House , a man could go to his job and his wife stay home, drugs were not a problem, and students were safe in school. How do I know, I was a kid in the 50's.
@pneulancer6 жыл бұрын
Mark Roberts Though I was a kid during the 1980's I agree that, on balance there seems to be more civility than now. I find intelligent, literate and well mannered women far more attractive than the tattooed, foul mouthed ones I see today.
@caddothegreat3 жыл бұрын
Great entertainment !
@andymassingham7 ай бұрын
The film Groucho referees to is Operation Mad Ball, which was Ernie’s first big film. He co-stars with Jack Lemmon. It’s free on KZbin. He would have gone on to a very interesting movie career had fate not intervened.
@rodneygolden27962 жыл бұрын
Truly a scribe for the Tribe 👍😊 Shalom. L'chaim.
@NewMusicWeekly11 жыл бұрын
The hourglass joke was in this very episode, about the woman seen in this clip mentioning that she wore an hourglass dress for her job.
@jeffersonianideal10 жыл бұрын
A three record set called "The Three Funniest Hours In The History Of Radio!" was released in 1977 by Nostalgia Lane. Taking up one entire side was the extracted audio track of this You Bet Your Life episode. The part (at the 0:38 mark) where Ernie Kovacs and Groucho discuss smoking cigars was edited out of the LP version. No doubt it had to do with the ban, seven years earlier of tobacco ads on radio and television. Inserted where a normal television spot would be was a public service announcement by Fred MacMurray for the American Cancer Society. It was part of the "Fight Cancer With a Checkup and a Check" campaign. Political correctness in its infancy.
@fromthesidelines9 жыл бұрын
That was the March 31, 1958 radio edition. By that time, both radio and TV editions were edited differently to emphasize more verbal exchanges on radio, and visual images on the TV show.....and there was also the fact the radio version aired for 25 minutes [Mondays, 8:05-8:30pm(et), after five minutes of "NBC NEWS ON THE HOUR"] instead of the half-hour on TV [Thursdays, 8-8:30pm(et)].
@jeffersonianideal9 жыл бұрын
Barry I. Grauman My suspicion is the Fred MacMurray PSA for the American Cancer Society was not originally part of the radio or television version. I base this on the way the spot sounds and was constructed. However, I can not be certain.
@jeffersonianideal8 жыл бұрын
+jeffersonianideal Also noteworthy, Fred MacMurray acquired the bulk of his stardom after 1958. He did not become a household word as a television star until 1960, following the airing of the sitcom "My Three Sons".
@kenlieck77568 жыл бұрын
Well, MacMurray was enough of a household name in 1940 that Captain Marvel ("Shazam!") was modeled on him!
@jeffersonianideal8 жыл бұрын
The resemblance is truly striking.
@laurencesiegel93623 жыл бұрын
What a lovely girl! Sanita Pelkey.
@jubalcalif910015 күн бұрын
She was no Marie Dressler (yummy!) but Sanita was indeed one beautiful young lady!
@tammyunger2893 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@4403212 жыл бұрын
April 3, 1958. Ouite a comic summit. As AMB points out below, their comedy was different but their comic personas were similar. Too bad they didn't do more together.
@ghostrider-ek8gu Жыл бұрын
Genius meets genius
@jubalcalif910015 күн бұрын
You got THAT right !!
@beausie-woesieherewegoesie25482 жыл бұрын
Remember when gameshows we're unaffected and the contestants clueless? Neither do I!
@johnmitchelljr4 жыл бұрын
What can you say about so great. Thank you.
@bobthetvfan Жыл бұрын
For a real piece of genius in programming, from 1959-61 Groucho's show was on 10-10:30 Thursday nights on NBC; Kovacs' "Take A Good Look" followed on ABC from 10:30-11. Since there are a number of TAGL episodes on KZbin, you might want to catch an episode of it after watching Groucho. The format, if you don't know what it is, requires the panel (usually Edie, Hans Conried, and Cesar Romero) to identify someone who had been in the news either recently or years ago. Ernie and a troupe of actors provide the clues through short skits. I don't think they're meant to be much help, but Cesar is especially good at coming up with the right answers. Just enjoy Ernie's brand of humor and pay particular attention to the commercials for his sponsor, Dutch Masters cigars (appropriately); they ought to be considered classics.