The Dean Martin Show: The Toupee Skit

[@kathleenmckeithen118]

This may well be the best Dean Martin cracking up and Bob's comebacks were hilarious improvs!! I loved both of these guys and still do!

[@depaola63]

I am now 56 and this was my youth !! LOVED growing up in the classic era I did !! Happy Birthday Dino ...( JUNE 7th, 1917) Newhart was always great too !

[@annfernakerpan6654]

I love Dean in this sketch, it never fails to make me laugh because he just can't hold it together. Thank you Dean for sharing your talent, whether singing, acting or tv, you've left lovely memories of a time when there was no need to shout or curse to raise a laugh. God bless, sorely missed, 25 yrs 25/12/20 xx

[@OldRustySteele]

I saw this live as a teenager on the Dean Martin Show and thought it was hilarious. I’m seeing it in 2023 and still think it’s hilarious. As much as Deano’s laughing, I wonder how much Newhart is ad-libbing!

[@urgdaddy]

This is total ad-lib and genius.

[@chrisbromham2334]

Love it so funny, the brilliant Bob Newhart .

[@JCSAXON]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@fatguypa]

i never gets old. i give dean credit for lasting as long as he did before he lost it.

[@francisalanwormald6328]

NOW 85 I MAY HAVE SEEN LIVE...NO MATTER...TWO FAVES!!!

[@chakani0001]

"I'd like a straight man who didn't laugh" Improvisational genius.

[@jeffhaskins9600]

Bob is the best!!

[@theolamp5312]

You beat me to it.

[@carycomic1954]

Yep! Showbiz legends who were not afraid to break character if it helped the audience laugh all the harder. God bless both these men.

[@pgtmr2713]

Was not expecting it to be this funny. Epic.

[@hyliadreamer]

Ohhh, poor Dean! He never knew what hit him! And it's so much fun to see Bob not quite being able to pull off his usual deadpan delivery. :D

[@Bionic_Fonzie]

I watch this once a week and laugh every time..

[@zacharydickerson1255]

“Everyone quit having cheese dip”

[@RomanAlexander1]

Just wonderful 😊👍 Thanks for this.

[@truckereleven]

thank heavens for youtube. wonderful entertainment

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

"Are you sure u worked with Jerry" Joyous. Could any man stand where Deano is and keep a straight face?

[@mediamannaman]

Dean's reply was just as funny.

[@davidepittiglio8579]

Just beautiful 🌞🌞🌞

[@fever_spike]

"You mind if I use your phone?" "Oh, for Heaven's sake, yeah...!" 😆

[@woodyjagla328]

,,,, very funny !!!!! ,,,,,,,, Legends !!!!!!!!!!!

[@djtridium]

This is a hilarious skit. Comedic genius

[@billwilson5341]

I just finished reading Bob Newhart's book, "I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!". He writes of this skit in the book - mentions Dean's laughing.

[@shellywatson8653]

Comedy Gold! This is the good stuff ♥️

[@NorybDrol82]

We're from Iowa and you see we don't get many hurricanes. Lol!

[@karenjaquish2086]

Can you imagine Bob and Tim Conway in a skit. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Maazzzo]

Thank you for posting this.

[@a.marvincausey5352]

Great bit! There are no entertainers today that could do this. Not even close.

[@JamesSWP]

Dean nearly wet himself laughing here!! So funny

[@martinlewis2279]

Love this. Made me laugh so hard I cried :)

[@luishumbertovega3900]

I suppose Dean could read his cue card but in order to surprise him and generate a spontaneous reaction from him he had no idea of what Bob was going to say, and, yeah, surprised he was !!!

[@txttom74]

GOLD....

[@theddiissccoo]

Dean makes this sketch

[@Brooklyn_Powers]

This is so funny!

[@ghostspectre1861]

This really was comedy gold. Zero profanity. Awesome.

[@christinecrites835]

if he says cheese dip one more time.........hahahaha

[@davidhensley76]

Imagine Tim Conway doing this sketch with Harvey Korman.

[@MOGGS1942]

Mr. Newhart was top class.

[@ripplecutbuddha]

"Are you sure you worked with Jerry?" (Jerry Lewis, who was a long-time partner with Dean) "Yeah, but our stuff wasn't this funny." Truly timeless.....

[@martinlewis2279]

Loved that part. In my opinion their stuff( Martin and Lewis) was the best. Dean was always laughing when he was working with Jerry. They were more than just partners, they were like brothers.

[@americanswan]

This comment is so funny.

[@depaola63]

Classic Dino ! " our stuff wasn't this funny ! "

[@hyliadreamer]

It was a great touch when he threw that line in! ^.^ I hope Jerry was watching; Bob's a much better comic than Jerry was.

[@garymcaleer6112]

One of Bob's classics. And to think Bob & Don Rickles were best of friends. Talk about the odd couple! :^)

[@MK-xe1zd]

Real talent.

[@VividMac101]

Bob is so awkwardly hilarious. He keeps it together better than Dean in this one too. Dean loses it fairly quickly, which is funny in its own right.

[@lindashelley3635]

VividMac101 Sooner or later Dean ALWAYS lost it, and like you say that was often the funniest part of any sketch!😆

[@orbison]

I was lucky to see the great Mr. Newhart last night in Las Vegas, at the end of the show, he showed a montage of his great career highlights, and he showed this clip. It got just as big a laugh with those of us in the audience as it did back then. Even though I still think the "tape recorder" sketch with Bob and Dean is slightly funnier (The UG-2) This is a very very close second. SNL could only wish that could create this much laughter from breaking character as Dino (and of course, Carol, Tim and Harvey) did.

[@philipclock]

Where can I find the "tape recorder" sketch?

[@MichaelSimmons.]

On KZbin, go to "Dean Martin - Wonderful Television."

[@FlyingT5150]

Funny ,Absolutely Gold!

[@Bionic_Fonzie]

I think at the 4:05 mark, Dean apologizes to Bob for not keeping a straight face..

[@fever_spike]

You're right--he does...you can see him mouth the word "sorry". 😆

[@MrGranfield]

It's obvious that this skit wasn't rehearsed, hence Dean laughing. I could tell Dean was reading cue cards off-camera.

[@markschildberg1667]

Dean didn’t like to rehearse, so they just went for it. Bob knew this bit cold, since he wrote it, so he could roll with anything Dean threw at him.

[@60DJCoop]

Hilarious!

[@RrR34025]

this is the best .... and hmmm amazingly - they didn't have to use cuss words to be FUNNY !

[@Culloden-1745]

I'd like a straight man that doesn't laugh. Priceless.

[@scottmclennan6114]

Deano is just no help to Bob here. Pretty bloody funny though.

[@timphillips3971]

🤣🤣🤣

[@bonniebrown3771]

lol

[@randybyrne4865]

I think the word "Legend", is put out there too often, however, Bob Newhart, (imho), is a Legend.

[@CinematicTechnologies]

I've seen the guy in this skit so many times before, but I can't quite pin a name to the face. Can anyone help me out here?

[@jeh32]

+Ethan Swords The customer returning the toupee is Bob Newhart. The salesman who keeps laughing is Dean Martin.

[@VividMac101]

Ethan Swords Sandy Duncan Jr

[@jazzman1626]

You may have seen Bob Newhart in episodes of “The Big Bang Theory”.

[@mistermindahenziandalasnus3754]

1:33 3:55

[@Scott-gf5tz]

Bob newhart

[@Moore-s5p]

I m glad that men don't have to deal with this anymore

[@JayDee284]

we can all thank Yul Brynner for that ;)

[@billwilson5341]

JayDee284: and Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).

[@Hero-hs4gt]

I'd really like a straight man that didn't laugh 😂

[@urgdaddy]

I'm 73 yo, but that was a very uptight generation and with issues.