My interview with Steve Allen - 1999

[@photomanwilliams4147]

I tell this every time I see a Steve Allen interview, but people need to know his kindness. In the late 60;s and early 70's I often was in the studio audience of TV shows. Talk, game, variety shows, I saw them all in the L.A. area. Many East Coast shows would at times do their show as "on location" in LA at times. The sad fact I found, most show host couldn't care less about the people in the studio audience, sure when the camera was on they made it seem they cared but most entered at the start of filming, and exit as soon as the camera were off. Steve Allen was one of the few that would come out before the taping stated, and even stayed for a short time after chatting with his audience when the camera were off. He truly thanked us for being a part, and knew driving, and other struggles it took for us to be there. He was a kind, caring man in real life, not just when the cameras were on.

[@ronsbeerreviewstools4361]

Mr. Steve Allen, one of the best talk show hosts.

[@adrienneszatkowski2471]

I Love Steve Allen! He Brought us Steve and Eydie!!! And He is quite learned from reading and He is awesome when helping other entertainers to achieve success! God Bless you, Steve Allen!

[@ToupeesAndWigs]

Steve Allen, a great talent and so interesting.

[@billyshepard5514]

I sure miss Steve Allen

[@warrenprintz5219]

I really enjoyed this. A nice 12min insight to a great mind.

[@FreihEitner]

A 12 minute insight in a 27 minute video which ends with 15 minutes of freeze frame. If there was a reason for that it escapes me.

[@monzavideo]

Mr Allen is without a doubt a genius. His television work is incredible. There is that one video of him and Steve and Eddy along with Dinah Shore and Sinatra singing This Might Be The Start Of Something Big. They were moving from one studio to another at NBC in Burbank. Around 1959. The camerawork and audio beats anything on the air today.

[@38ddkelly]

Great video, Alison. Steve Allen was such an interesting and articulate gentleman.

[@elizabethholland1565]

Ah, Steve Allen, what a wonderful treat he was in the 1950s when laughter could be so natural and free and not smarmy or always smacking of sexual innuendo. So intelligent, funny and insightful. Thank you Mr. Allen.

[@wackyworldnews]

steve allen is alive again today with this wonderful video upload.

[@rickfarmiloe]

Fascinating stuff! Love Steve Allen, and interesting to get his take on this subject. Great interview!

[@patricebest545]

2023 now! You are remembered Steve Allen! Rip!

[@fcontitwo]

,,,,really loved you Steve :) #thanks R.I.P.

[@tallpaul521]

Great interview with the great Steve Allen. Thank you!

[@kathrynfauble9053]

Excellent interview. It was done in 1999. The interviewer would have had a difficult time showing Steve Allen a video clip of Johnnie Ray’s mystery guest appearance on the What’s My Line episode that aired live on August 22, 1954. Steve Allen made the studio audience laugh when he was blindfolded and it was his turn to question Johnnie. The KZbin upload of the August 22, 1954 telecast contradicts Steve’s claim at 3:50 that he did not appear with Johnnie on What’s My Line. Indeed Steve and Johnnie shared the network television spotlight on 22 August 1954 : European date format. I understand totally why the interviewer (Alison?) did not remind Steve about 22 August 1954. Not only did entertainment options change tremendously between 1954 and 1999, but in 2021 people can share short video clips in ways that were not yet invented as of 1999. Steve Allen passed in 2000 - very sad. We could use him in 2021 to narrate historical documentaries. These days an iPhone camera could capture his facial expressions as he watches a few minutes of a What’s My Line episode or an I’ve Got A Secret.

[@MeenyMcSweeny]

What a cool guy!

[@Shermanbay]

"Is there anything else you would like to add?" "I would like to add 6 and 14, which comes to 20."

[@stewartberger7734]

He was great at that stuff....Amazing guy

[@reedbetweenthelines1385]

Loved this. Thank you.

[@dukeofkbs]

This is great !! How cool you got to have a one on one interview with him !

[@davidrbecken]

A lot of this is so true today.

[@raspycellist]

Thank goodness he's not around to see these days. Because this world has gone radically insane.

[@Surfwriter2]

Steve Allen was a fine man with a finely honed intellect. I both admired him and enjoyed him immensely. His unexpected death on the 30th of December 2000 was a huge loss. I'm wondering how long before his death this interview was recorded?

[@dianemacintyre5890]

Steve Allen died on October 30th 2000

[@mpeindms]

I remember Steve when his show was just a local NYC show on NBC. And due to his intelligence and comedic skills,the show expanded with "the man on the street" sketches when he added Don Knotts and 3 or 4 others whose names I forget but were equally funny and all of whom discussed that day's events with Steve. Later on, when Jack Paar replaced Steve Allen on the Tonight Show, Jack became a even bigger star than Steve. Still later, Johnny Carson replaced Jack and the show became bigger still

[@timfaracy754]

Kilgallon is said to have died on the night of the famous November 1965 New York power blackout, so her death was not reported as much as it may have had the blackout not happened. She was remembered on the next What's My Line show that Sunday.

[@jonteboe]

excellent

[@StatelessPerson]

The redoubtable Allen is interviewed regarding Dorothy Kilgallen (1913-1965 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Kilgallen), New York newspaper columnist, with whom he shared the "What's My Line" game show panel for 2 years. Last 12 minutes of this video are blank.

[@sfgooner70]

Alison, were you doing a docu on Dorothy? I'd be interested in seeing that. From what I've read from Cerf's oral history interview I would gather that Dorothy wasn't that close to the others on the show because of her column and her politics. There is a book that came out recently that tries to say her death wasn't accidental, but I don't find that kind of conjecture interesting. I'm more interested about how she was, and was perceived of while she was alive.

[@CavanaughsWebseries]

i laughed aloud when he was asked if there was anything he wanted to add... He goes 6 + 14 hahahahah

[@adanibarra1453]

I feel like he’s not saying everything that he knows. He’s holding back.

[@Nay-kp6uu]

The Joy of Cooking Steve Allen

[@imperialfreek]

great interview, Alison...

[@jimlaguardia8185]

Steve is talking about Dorothy Kilgallen, who was murdered because of her investigation of the JFK murder.

[@goobersonguns5412]

Are you related to Al Martino ?

[@ApartmentKing66]

Probably her dad.

[@mushmorant9253]

Is this interview about Dorothy Kilgallen or Steve Allen? It sounds like the interviewer is more interested in the former.

[@tommy1gtr]

wonder what Allen would think of the "flat-earth" conspiracy believers of today LOL!

[@squidfartz]

That was excellent. Nice interview -I've never seen him speak about Dorothy like this.

[@edhuber3557]

4 minutes in before we get a first name to go with the oft-repeated 'she'. And then doubles down by interviewing and pressing Steve Allen on topic (i.e. Kennedy connection, her death, conspiracy) that he repeatedly confesses to know little about. And not much good can be said about the 2nd half of the video. What a terrible post.

[@chrisn7259]

Save was a devout Catholic and he makes fun of cult religions!

[@blueticecho]

Steve who ?

[@dianemacintyre5890]

I would like to think he would have laughed

[@brainsareus]

love and respect Steve,but Astrology is not nonsense,nor is it cultic. you were a brilliant man,but, you don't know what the hell you're talking about,here.

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

brainsareus Astrology works by observing the movement of the celestial bodies in relation to the earth. However, the position of those stars has changed in relation to the earth since the Astrological system was developed. Even if astrology wasn't garbage, everyone is still reading it wrong.

[@brainsareus]

***** if you knew what you were talking about,you'd know that Astrology takes into account those self same motions[progressions]; so,the dismissiveness of your premise,is tacitly absurd.

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

brainsareus Ok. And in which university did they discover these new calculations?

[@CBCycles]

@@TheBigMclargehuge exactly, it has shifted since it was developed

[@DesiluTrek]

Wow, it's as if he's still here today talking about the wacko right wing.

[@NoelG702]

DesiluTrek His wife was a Republican. The Democrats have moved far far to the left. Republicans have hardly moved at all since the 1980's.

[@NoelG702]

And Steve might of been a Democrat but he wasn't as far left as the dems are today. He was a classical liberal, not a leftist.

[@NoelG702]

And he was a Christian, moron.

[@BOT-hy5co]

I just realized that Steve Allen was hilarious, and so smart.

[@gallery7596]

@@NoelG702Trump's endorsing Qanon. Now that's moving.