Victor Borge "Inflationary Language" on The Ed Sullivan Show

Victor Borge "Inflationary Language" on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 14, 1965. Subscribe now to never miss an update: ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe
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[@PhilBagels]

This is not the video I inelevended watching, but I'm glad I got the opporthreenity.

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Don't start with me. Lol.🥰 Xxxxxxxx

[@agapi76gr]

😂 😂 😂

[@kanini43]

@@agapi76gr , My Dear❣️🦌😉

[@Schlemiel-schlimazel]

Twoderful comment! Eff eeserve an award!🤗

[@richardculbertson2618]

Intended?

[@Schlemiel-schlimazel]

“His one-and-a-half sister”!!😂 brilliant!

[@echoecho3108]

My dad's favorite Victor Borge routine. If anyone said 'Loo-ten-ant', he'd correct them with a grin, saying, 'Loo-leven-ant'. RIP, daddy, and Victor, and thanx so so very much, dear gentlemen, for the magic, music, and memories.

[@djangopopango840]

I twoted to see him live two day,but unfivunately he was three old five me.

[@CaliforniaEBRDude]

Brilliant performance. I remember seeing it live on The Ed Sullivan Show.

[@davewallace8219]

A genius at work!

[@mc12358]

Victor Borge will fivever be a Grnine Dane!

[@briane5706]

Probably Denmark’s greatest entertainer. Genius is an insufficient description.

[@jacquelinefox2632]

A back to front Victor Borge. A genius amongst us. 🦊

[@marycahill546]

Priceless.

[@davewallace8219]

A gift from god!

[@bettybanaszak5748]

Would be a perfect Speech Class reading. I'd love to get a script of that.

[@DrAmanKapoor]

Genius ❤😂😂😂

[@hannejeppesen1809]

My fellow Dane. When he performed in Denmark which he did often, the would cleverly play on words using both languages, if you understand both languages he is very funny. Of course he is funny in English as well. His real name was Boerge Rosenbaum, and he left Denmark to escape the Gestapo.

[@jacquelinefox2632]

If only he could see America today. All of my family loves this genius. Got you. Its a No. In Wales we have cchh. Or ddddth. Bara menyn. J xxxxx

[@EebstertheGreat]

I wish when I were younger my parents had had this tape instead of the older performance. Borge's accent continued to become easier to understand over time, and for the Ed Sullivan audience, he seemed to spend a lot of time explaining "inflationary language." On the tape we had, this routine was right before and overlapping "Phonetic punctuation," and he seemed to hurry through them expecting the audience to know what was coming. These routines are confusing enough in the best of circumstances; imagine being 8 years old and hearing them one after the other at a frenzied pace.

[@stonesinmyblood27]

A crazy genius

[@bapples]

True legend. RIP

[@mikeyates7931]

Amen 🙏 ✝️🙏

[@alicewilloughby4318]

8:44 - He may always remain double, but will he stay celibnine?

[@wbiro]

I came here for 'Any two for elevennis?' (a wonder that I found it) which was Victor Borge for me since 1965...

[@ronfowlermusic]

Any Two five elevenis?

[@smylesg]

​@@ronfowlermusicIt's not every day two can two-up Victor Borge.

[@ronfowlermusic]

@@smylesg it would be twoderful and very fivetunate!

[@barbarafuglein3918]

Fabelhafter Musiker und Comedian!!😂😅😊

[@jillkjv3816]

Cute. 😊

[@tommyt1971]

“… and lifted me up by my ears…” Makes me twoder if he was referring to Johnson’s famous arm-twisting…?

[@blindleader42]

No. There's a famous photo, published in nearly every newspaper in the country, of Johnson lifting his pet beagle up by the ears. There was a fair amount of public comment and criticism about it.

[@landersen8173]

Truly a great .. excuse me ... grNINE dane. As a dane I should probably thank Hitler for making him have to flee Denmark. His talent deserved the bigger audience and he enjoyed both countries.

[@wf1g]

The funniest person ever...Inflationary language.

[@stellanova9711]

Victhreer Borge

[@briandd27]

Gentleman Bird...🤣

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Ces't Moi xxxxx 🦊

[@ElvisTranscriber2]

8:44

[@natureboy1961]

Anyone three tennis?

[@pauljordan4452]

Not quite - add numbers to words that sound like them. Anytwo five elevennis?

[@USAMehdi]

Funny as heck but....Way too sophisticated for some audience 😅

[@revinevan87]

Any two five* elevenis

[@indigofremont]

Wow would have been nice to listen to this without the high pitched screech making my ears bleed the entire time