What's My Line? - Mayor Richard J. Daley; Carol Morris; Paul Winchell [panel] (Aug 5, 1956)

[@vingotaq777]

This was a lovely episode of WML and Paul Winchell was a top class ventriloquist

[@chachadodds5860]

Great memories. WML, is still just as fun and entertaining as it was when watching the live shows. Thanks for sharing this piece of TV history.

[@moonlightray8493]

Paul Winchell is such a clever and entertaining guest panelist! His puppet flirting with Arlene is adorable and charming, his banter and "conferences" with Jerry are hilarious, and he's quite proficient at playing the game too... Mr. Winchell is quickly becoming one of my favourite picks for fourth panelist, right up there with Steve Allen and Joey Bishop.

[@dovbarleib3256]

I agree. Most of the 4th panelists are duds as far as playing this game. Winchell carefully chooses his questions to analytically prepare himself to limit the possibilities of his next question by eliminating what the guests do NOT do. Very similar to how Dorothy Killgallen plays the game.

[@barthedlund1429]

tony Randal is my favorite 4th contestant

[@robertjean5782]

Unfortunately not happening, Mr .Winchell had many other occupations😊

[@dannydoc1969]

We take it for granted how intelligent and well informed the panel is, but I cannot imagine any celebrities today, knowing, in advance where the Political National Conventions were to be held so far in advance, or have the excellent vocabulary, grammar, poise, and deductive reasoning we witness on this show. Truly a class act.

[@kulturekritik9665]

I've thought about how to create a contemporary version. Anderson Cooper could host. Whoopi Goldberg might be good on the panel. But I think most of the panelists wouldn't be regular "celebrities." They'd need to use writers and critics. Rachel Maddow would be great.

[@Sylvander1911]

Wasn't "so far in advance" the convention was days away.

[@mikelair9144]

Please remember Bennet Cerf was publisher who is always paying attention to the news. As well, Dorothy was top notch reporter. These weren't folks avoiding the press, it was the well informed part of the press.

[@mikelair9144]

@@kulturekritik9665 a CNN version - the guests would be limited

[@robertjean5782]

I agree totally 💯 percent 😊

[@keithhyttinen8275]

I enjoyed it when Mrs. Williams laughed. First time I heard what laughter sounded like by someone born in 1879. It's the same. Oddly enough. LOL

[@EricM_001]

Well said, but give the old girl some credit! At 81 in 1956, she'd have been born in 1875.

[@robertjean5782]

Why do you say oddly?

[@joeblaumer2085]

Wow. Another gem. I enjoy these shows immensely. Thanks for another exquisite post.

[@SDG.12]

wow 81 years young....so she was born in 1875. that's only 4 years after the Franco-Prussian war & Bismarck finally uniting Germany. we were in the early stages of the Gilded Age, Grant was president, Tilden/Hayes was still a year away & Reconstruction yet to be compromised, & Little Bighorn was also a year away! people of the later part of the 19th century who lived through 1950s experienced such dramatic change it's mindboggling

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

+do ht Not to mention she got to see the birth and growth of the telephone, the automobile, movies, etc.

[@SDG.12]

+Beth Di Bartolomeo No doubt!!!! i was just thinking about some historical events around 1875. the technological advancements between 1875 and 1950 is just incredible!!!!!!!!

[@mikegendron3723]

After all that you have mentioned as to her life experiences, what was Bennett (The Pig) Cerf's question "Does she model bathing suits? HeHeHeHe". Not impressed!!!!!!!

[@donnawoodford6641]

My paternal grandfather was born in 1875. He lived into his 90s.

[@igkoigko9950]

@@bethdibartolomeo2042 just as we see the end of telephone (smartphone), movies and television (streaming), ICE cars (electric), and birth of commercial space travel, internet, CRISPR, LIGO and rise of China

[@annakaminski4406]

Always such a pleasure to watch this show.

[@gunnyobos8380]

This show is always a surprise! No matter how often I watch, there’s always someone I enjoy seeing again! And the other guests are interesting and unique. Wonderful to see people who took pride in their jobs!

[@lissettesbloom8223]

People dressed with class. Love this show.

[@ladya1953]

Mrs. Williams looks so much like Tweety's Granny !

[@Rosarium2007]

Faith Adams She does!

[@bettycogswell9851]

She sure does...

[@steventrosiek2623]

She sure does

[@steventrosiek2623]

All she needs is the hair pins in her hair

[@spindalis79]

Warner Bros.' Granny would have been modeled after elderly ladies of the time (early 1950s), so it makes sense.

[@magnificentfailure2390]

I will always remain bemused by the idea that Paul Winchell designed and built (with the assistance of Heimlich) the first functional artificial human heart. Ain't life a kick in the head?

[@lauracollins4195]

Magnificent Failure - Paul Winchell a talented inventor! Go figure. :)

[@boognish999]

Not that it makes it so but... "Jarvik denies that any of Winchell's design elements were incorporated into the device he fabricated for humans - the Jarvik-7, which was successfully implanted into Barney Clark in 1982"

[@sbalman]

That has never been substantiated.

[@feraudyh]

He owned 30 patents

[@libertyann439]

A shame we can't see the colors of all those beautiful dresses!

[@smilesfordays]

I can agree for that point for sure. Even technicolor doesn’t quite get it right. 🤗

[@errorsofmodernism9715]

I will bet Bennet Cerf would love to be wearing one of those dresses as well

[@stanmaxkolbe]

@@errorsofmodernism9715 Why? He was married to two women.

[@robertjean5782]

I'm thrilled we get to see them at all, thank you Gary God Bless😊

[@jaysonbiggs8979]

He will always be associated with Chicago '68. I'll never forget seeing it on TV. Hell broke loose inside and outside.

[@robertsvorinich7959]

I remember Daily yelling anti-Semitic comments at the convention. The televised scenes of cops beating protesters and passerbys was shocking to a certain 16 year old.

[@roberthill799]

Yes Daley was a racist swine. He was calling Abe Ribicoff a "dirty Jew" because he denounced the police violence outside, on the streets of Chicago.

[@peternagy-im4be]

What year was that?😊

[@terrihenricks4160]

At 7:20, John Daly said he knew of no city in the country that handled political conventions as well as Chicago. It's a shame the story couldn't have ended right there with 1968 never happening.

[@kennethbutler1343]

I had the same thought!

[@dovbarleib3256]

I blame Abbie Hoffman and Tom Hayden for Chicago 1968

[@stevekru6518]

Dov BarLeib You should blame the Viet Nam war atrocities

[@allanshulstad1783]

Ironic isn't it 😔

[@paulmorin6569]

@@dovbarleib3256 absolutely

[@donnarouse5366]

I was aware of Mr Bennett certification years before I ever watched what's my line. I enjoyed all his books. I have 6 of them. Thoroughly enjoyed them.

[@ToddSF]

Mrs. Williams the model reminds me of Mary See, whose photo appears on the outside of boxes of the excellent chocolates sold by See's Candies.

[@loissimmons6558]

+ToddSF 94109 Just down the road apiece from you, it would seem, at least as far as their HQ is concerned. Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance received on the job training at See's Candies store on La Cienega Blvd. in L.A. in preparation for their famous candy conveyor belt sketch. SNL did a marvelous parody of that sketch, but instead of Lucy and Ethel, they had Gilda Radner play Lucy and used Dan Aykroyd in his stuffed shirt persona in the role typically played by Gale Gordon in later Lucy television series. www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/lucy-a-bomb/n8652?snl=1 See's Candies is currently owned by Berkshire Hathaway, which bought it in 1972. It represented a shift in philosophy by Warren Buffett from solely purchasing undervalued assets to also purchasing quality companies with strong reputations and brand recognition. In 2007, Buffett called See's Candies "the prototype of a dream business." I wonder if it could be said that the company was founded because "Mary See, Mary did."

[@watchman1178]

Imagine being only a few feet away from Miss Universe and you have to be blindfolded. Oh, the humanity!

[@GingerHey]

Mrs. Elizabeth Williams charmed them all!

[@psygn0sis]

Miss Universe Carol Morris is still alive and kicking. (2016)

[@loissimmons6558]

She is still alive in 2017. She happens to be 81, the same age as the second challenger. Alas, I could find no recent picture of her on Google images to compare her appearance with that of Elizabeth Williams. If she's still kicking, maybe the Jets could use her. They need a lot of help.

[@1158scott]

Happy 85 Carol !! GO CAROL !!

[@DarylReeceJames]

@@1158scott you beat me to it 😂

[@IceSkater8491]

She is still alive in 2023.

[@PalaniRides]

Still alive as of July of 2024. :)

[@teddytodorova]

15:21 After Jerry asks Would you like to go out with me after the show Arlene says: I AM your date. Although it cannot be easily heard so sweet of her to say it. She is totally into their "relationship".

[@RichardHannay]

Paul Winchell is the voice of Tigger right though the late ‘90s! I never knew!

[@Fush1234]

So fast. It’s amazing how quick they are.

[@nankerphelge3771]

Carol Morris from Ottumwa, Iowa was stunning and charming too!

[@paulmorin6569]

She went out with radar o reilly

[@Marcel_Audubon]

she sure has an Iowa hairdo

[@robertjean5782]

😊

[@Bonobanos]

i wonder what else miss universe was trying to say before she left

[@robertjean5782]

She mentioned she has signed a contract with universal pictures😊

[@chriskozik2573]

Yes, a C L A S S Act (as per @dannydoc) all around! And Miss Universe, Carol Morris, also!... beauty-truly-*and also graceful, charming and well-spoken! Year after year, intelligent, well-informed, interesting, respectful and witty-even sometimes downright funny-and so well-dressed too: the panel and moderator and contestants. What other show ever could top that? It's not nostalgia for the past (never watched WML till I got a smart phone); it's about missing this kind of QUALITY entertainment on today's TV and media! So great, too, that they have so many episodes to watch (17 years in the original BW series, my favorite)!

[@sansacro007]

My how beauty context contestants have changed. They were once biological women!

[@JanetM-ro6xc]

Such fun with Jerry Mahoney participating!

[@algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116]

Mr. Mayor, in 12 years your Chicago Convention Honeymoon will end.

[@4seeableTV]

Lame

[@dovbarleib3256]

The Crook of Cook

[@peternagy-im4be]

As does everything

[@brucekrause2801]

So good to see Mayor Daley. Best Mayor Chicago ever had.

[@callmeonkeshiasphone]

U didn’t like mayor Ogden??!!

[@robertsvorinich7959]

I'm sure corrupt politicians and the mob will agree with you. Lol

[@brucekrause2801]

@@callmeonkeshiasphone I was born in 50. I need to research Ogden.

[@brucekrause2801]

@@robertsvorinich7959I'm sure they would. The famous Daley machine .

[@roberthill799]

I suggest you read "Boss" by Mike Royko. The city was run efficiently under Daley but was disgustingly corrupt. And his cops were brutal pigs.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Comments on prior version of this video: Galileocan g 1 year ago You can tell how good an actress Arlene is, since she really makes you believe that she isn't really vomiting inside by having to fake smooches and romance with that God awful puppet. She should have demanded a raise immediately for having such humiliating things to have to perform What's My Line? 1 year ago She must be a great actress, because I thought she was legitimately having fun here, not vomiting inside. But that's just me. Dixie Alexander 1 year ago +What's My Line? I agree with you. Arlene had a great sense of humor. Dixie Alexander 1 year ago If you want vomit inside the mouth watch any WML with Hal Block. Stephanie McCoy 1 year ago I believe she didn't think any of it. Besides, she always tell Paul to bring out his puppet out from underneath the desk. She was laid back like that. John Waller 8 months ago Somehow, I cannot see Arlene (or Dorothy) doing something like this because they were told to... Johan Gustafsson 5 months ago I think he is quite funny. =) David Von Pein 1 year ago (edited) This is a fun episode. Miss Universe for 1956, an 81-year-old model who was having a ball, the famous Mayor of Chicago, and to cap off the fun, a guy who "counts mosquitoes". (That's an occupation that we're not likely to see again on WML for a long time.) :-) David Von Pein 9 months ago 3.bp.blogspot.com/-qeUjkqRHk7Y/U7nG1URtxpI/AAAAAAAA1qo/_5cetkkVxc8/s1600/WML-8-5-56.png Johan Bengtsson 8 months ago Are the American Mayors as well known today as they seemed to be in the 50's? Mnm Gee 6 months ago Mayor Guiliani, Mayor Bloomberg, Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, etc etc etc Pygiana 10 months ago Has anyone else noticed that when a contestant starts writing on the blackboard a man in the audience nearly always guffaws. It sounds like the same laugh every time. It often sounds very inappropriate. In this episode the laugh came just as the old lady appeared. I wonder if this laugher was a regular member of the audience, a sort of 'warm up' guy. Johan Bengtsson 8 months ago Yes I have heard him in almost every episode. As you say, he could be a 'warm up guy' or someone else from the staff. He sounds drunk. :/ daisyflowerrose2005 1 year ago mosquitoes are animals Johan Gustafsson 5 months ago +Ryszard Pajak What technicalities? Insects are animals. What's My Line? 5 months ago For some reason, on WML John AND the panelists generally took the word "animal" to be a synonym for "mammal". It's quite silly, really. Johan Bengtsson 8 months ago (edited) Paul Winchell rhymed 'Italian' with 'Kilgallian' when introducing Dorothy. Witty. :) 1:25 Later John said "Miss Killgillien" and Dorothy responded with "Thank you mr Dialey". :) 13:29 juliansinger 1 year ago Oh, lord, dummies. Salacious dummies, of course. What-ever. What's My Line? 1 year ago (edited) I, too was not familiar with Winchell (other than reading about him) before seeing him on WML. But when I looked up some of his work, I was pretty impressed. Jeff Vaughn 10 months ago Unlike Edgar Bergen, Winchell is a very accomplished ventriloquist. mrpuniverse2 9 months ago Ottumwa Iowa where miss Universe was originally from is the town MASH character Radar O"Riley said to have come from She married a Texas Oil Millionaire 45 years her senior had two children with him after he died she remarried still lives in Texas As of the year 2014, she was the only Miss Iowa USA to win the Miss USA crown. She is still active in the Miss Iowa USA pageant joed596 5 months ago thanks very much :-) The Amish Umpire 6 months ago This is not the first constant form ottuwnua. bornbillsmith 1 year ago This must have been before the 1954 Democratic convention. Daly states that Chicago handles conventions better than any town. I wonder how he felt after the 1968 convention. John Waller 8 months ago The convention was in 1956.... geoff brenneman 1 year ago mayor daley one of the most corrupt politicians of all time ZoneFighter1 1 year ago After our current president.

[@loissimmons6558]

+mrpuniverse2 Small correction to your biographical info on Miss Universe, Carol Morris: Ed "Buzz" Burke, the wealthy Texas oil man she wed was 45 years old (22 years older than her), not 45 years older than her. data.desmoinesregister.com/famous-iowans/carol-morris

[@timothydouglas7949]

Hillary did not become our president!!

[@sansacro007]

@@timothydouglas7949 Lol

[@sansacro007]

geoff brenneman 1 year ago mayor daley one of the most corrupt politicians of all time When it comes to most politicians, I guess that is a distinction without much of a difference.

[@princeharming8963]

John gave too much information with the mayor when he said ".... page one of a 'specific' paper... " Should have just let them keep asking 'yes or no' questions.

[@manuelaffonso2191]

On many occasions, John gives away vital information, leading one of the panelists to figure it out.

[@robertjean5782]

After watching over 260 so far, I agree he does help the panel without thinking! 😅

[@Rosey01222]

The 1956 Democratic Convention being held in Chicago. Little did they know how the city would demonstrate their hospitality during the Democratic Convention 13 years into the future. The Democratic Convention of 1968.

[@robertjean5782]

The one happening their 3rd week of August 2024 are slated to have a chaotic scene!!😮

[@shirtless6934]

7:20 That may have been true in 1956, but it was not in 1968.

[@alanaguilar7855]

Que linda hasta su voz de mi Carol Morris

[@Firebirds4ever]

Mayor Daley would be rolling in his grave if he knew what the Chicago of 2022 was like

[@andreaplummer3841]

It was safer when Al Capone ran that city.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

​@@andreaplummer3841 l Capone never ran Chicago, dearie

[@robertjean5782]

Definitely and going to be worse when the dems have their convention 2024 😢

[@robertjean5782]

​@andreaplummer3841😢

[@algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116]

To Miss Universe, Bennett exclaims, "Plug Over!" Yet, mentions Coca Cola every chance he gets. #Cerfing Wikipedia posts a movie credit for Miss Morris, "Crazy Love" starring Jeff Chandler, which an IMDB search reveals never happened. The Spanish version doesn't make the same mistake, but alas it gets her birth date wrong. No, Carol never made it in Hollywood, nevertheless, she did find love and strike oil in Texas.

[@Banks-gd1in]

I thought it was very rude that he said plug over.

[@richardness4411]

I think what he says is "Plug-ola", which was a major concern for games and quiz shows in the 1950s. He might have been warning John and the contestant to be careful about FCC rules.

[@alanaguilar7855]

Amo a Carol Morris para mi una o la miss más.hermosa de todas me enamoré desde que la vi jeje aunque se que ahora ya tiene más de 80

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

Since when are mosquitos not animals??

[@lala-gj4oo]

i lovrd mrs williams.

[@rucksackzen]

Charles Barison became a dentist and died in Florida in 2018.

[@rucksackzen]

True.

[@lopa2828]

So a mosquito counter became a teeth counter at the later period of his life. So good..

[@sophiemorrison9820]

I find myself googling many contestants out of my own curiosity to see if they're still living and bios.

[@CassiaMdB]

Carol Morris is absolutely gorgeous! 😍

[@terencedove5047]

Introducing "Miss Kilgillian" and "Mr. Doiley"...

[@AaronHahnStudios]

Check out the Dress on Carol Morris. Dazzling!

[@El_Ophelia]

Bennett Cerf was such a cad, asking Miss Williams if she modeled bathing suits and then guffawed at what he thinks is such a clever remark.

[@kristabrewer9363]

@Mark Richardson Hal Block was just plain RUDE!! Bennet's great

[@JanetM-ro6xc]

Cad for sure. Sexual harassment....wobbling on the line. He had no boundaries.

[@robertjean5782]

​@@kristabrewer9363What Hal said was very acceptable 70 years ago 😊

[@robertjean5782]

​@@JanetM-ro6xc😮

[@MMMarvelous]

Carol Morris was from Ottumwa, Iowa. I wonder if she was the girl who dumped Radar on M*A*S*H in Season 1, Episode 14? They were almost the same age. Ha! Oh yeah - Bennett Cerf was known for being a pompous ass, no surprise there folks, but he played this game better than anyone & was a very smart & successful man.

[@robertjean5782]

Cerf spoke like Elmer Fudd😅

[@MMMarvelous]

@@robertjean5782 Ha! I've read that Cerf had a cross between a Mid-Atlantic accent (think of that uppercrust lockjaw accent of Thurston Howell the 3rd in Gilligan's Island or Miss Jane Hathway in The Beverly Hillbillies) and a typical New York 1950's slow Long Island/Brooklyn accent.

[@miketheyunggod2534]

i wonder if mrs. williams is still alive.

[@andreaplummer3841]

She was 81 in 1956...that would mean she would have been 144 at the time you commented and 147 when I responded. Not impossible, but I have a feeling we would have heard of her being the oldest woman in the world.

[@313SilverPhantom]

Miss Kilgllian..poor john :-D

[@kennethbutler1343]

Daly gave it away on the newspaper question by saying "In the past week"...

[@Widda68]

SHARP EYE. I believe the LOONEY TUNES cartoonists drrew TWEETY,s granny after seeing her on this episode of WML. SINCE she was a commercial model . Mrs. Williams signed a contract with Warner Brothers Looney Tunes producers to sit and pose for the cartoonists, to use as Tweety's granny. She got 2200 to pose as well as a residuals clause.

[@andreaplummer3841]

They nailed it for sure.

[@sleepylagoon1310]

Richard J. Daley ?????

[@joncheskin]

Carol Morris looks a lot like Elizabeth Taylor, but frankly Elizabeth Taylor has more charisma.

[@jsmariani4180]

Apparently if you are famous, people applaud and admire you. Corruption? Who cares?

[@feraudyh]

John Charles Daly no relation to Richard Daly. The former's show was weekly, but the latter was in front of the public almost daily.

[@richardrice8076]

Also it's mayor Daley not Daly so obviously they're not related.

[@contrarian8870]

"Counts mosquitos" - "Does your work have anything to do with kids or animals?" "No". How are mosquitos not animals?

[@shrillbert]

They had a very narrow definition of animals. If it was a fish, insect, or bird, it didn't count, don't ask me why.

[@robertjean5782]

Insects,bugs😊

[@CrystalTwinStar]

This one was funny! Ha ha

[@wildboar7473]

She does help her Employers.... give out too many clues, Panel is sharp, many Contestant should research their job before these appearances.

[@wallaceb9120]

All American girl....what a concept

[@allanshulstad1783]

Can't help looking at John Daly s forehead creases

[@robertjean5782]

And his toupee 😊

[@jorgeservellon8078]

Super

[@TheCometHunter]

Someone forgot to tell Paul Winchell that this was "What's My Line?" and not "The Jerry Mahoney Show"!

[@CzechMirco]

This is typical for ventriloquists, they are so selfabsorbed that they drown every show in their verbal diarrhea. I think it has something to do with having to think for two, you simply can't stop jabbering. The same happened in british panel show QI with Nina Conti.

[@Sylvander1911]

Not as bad as a certain Mr Marx

[@thediamonddog95]

You just can't make people satisfied.

[@robertjean5782]

Send Winchell an email complaint😅

[@curtisbutt2266]

Kathy Butt -- Love John Daly. A real class act!

[@BaldJean]

Mosquitoes belong to the animal kingdom.

[@stanmaxkolbe]

I was thinking the Insect kingdom?

[@lopa2828]

No insect Kingdom

[@FlockOfHawks]

@@stanmaxkolbe insects are animals

[@beadyeyedbrat]

I don't usually like dummies but I love Jerry and Paul.

[@FlavioGirl]

aww paul winchell had to put his dummy away for questioning :D

[@trghudson]

They should have asked "are you a criminal?"

[@davidarcudi230]

The mafia arrives again. Damn Daley

[@Ingentiy]

He sure reminds me of Al Capone. He probably would have seen Daley as a competitive threat.

[@commandoxy]

The 'dummy' gives me the creeps. Remember the dummy in the film, 'Magic'?

[@jerrylee8261]

Me, too. Don't like those dummies but like Paul a lot. Very intelligent man.

[@geraldkatz7986]

Jerry Mahoney came first. It's precisely because of his popularity that horror movie dolls are made to look like him as an homage and parody.

[@robertjean5782]

Send Winchell an email complaint😅

[@Karen-nn6kg]

The Democratic National Convention is again here in Chicago in August.

[@juliansinger]

I see I commented on this one a year or so ago. Don't remember anything about it, so I think Arlene flirting with Jerry drove me off. I'm still mildly creeped out by dummies, but when I stop watching and just listen while doing something else, the humor can get through. (So clearly, Edgar Bergen would have been perfect for me.) I wish, alas, that Mrs. Williams had a less popular name, because I can't find a thing on her, and she's a pistol.

[@DennisAlexander-c2h]

I always enjoyed ,pulp fiction .

[@markxxx21]

Once again John gives it away by saying 'We won't tell you our guest's hometown' which would immediately clue the panel to ask about the town.

[@WConn100]

Dorothy was looking particularly foxy tonight.

[@chriswesterfield2042]

Back in the day when people were nice and civil.

[@janetwilliams7665]

It's very suspicious to me that Bennet got right off onto politics with the mayor. Normally he goes straight to entertainment.

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

it was an election year & the audience's reception was lukewarm thereby indicating someone who was not an entertainer

[@gbrumburgh]

Not really. The man didnt disguise his voice. Often that indicates sports or politics. Since the convention was happening at the time, it led him on the path.

[@robertjean5782]

​@@gbrumburghExactly 😊

[@dovbarleib3256]

The Crook of Cook Co.

[@user-lq8ci4tt8x]

Gosh, did anyone else notice a distinct similarity in the faces of the “2 Dalies?”

[@esemibrando]

Do you model Swimsuits ? SMH

[@robertjean5782]

It was a joke😊

[@felixcat4346]

John Daly said "No city handles conventions better than Chicago." When your wrong, your wrong. How un-prophetic.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

And when "your" wrong, you're wrong.

[@preppysocks209]

To this day, Chicago has held the most political conventions, all more than 50 years ago, in part due to the large number of rail connections and in part, relatedly, to its relatively central location. As of 1956, John's statement was perfectly correct. No one could have foreseen 1968. Chicago has not held a presidential nominating convention since then, and given that Illinois is now a deep blue state (whereas it was the ultimate swing state between 1920 and 1996, voting for the winner every time but once), and the memories of 1968, it is unlikely to host another such convention anytime soon.

[@richardrice8076]

​@preppysocks209 at least not until 2024😉. but since that comment is 3 years old, point made. regardless of my smart alecky comment.

[@robertjean5782]

​@preppysocks209 Wrong dems convention their 8-20-2024 😅

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

MAYOR OF CHICAGO MODEL COUNTS MOSQUITOES

[@peternagy-im4be]

Please remove this complete and utter troll from the comments section. Unfortunately today's awful society is full of pathetic losers intent on ruining other people's enjoyment of social media.

[@kristabrewer9363]

I am so SICK of that DUMMY!!! (as I'm sure John must have been) Maybe that's why the never had him back

[@robertjean5782]

Winchell had many things going on including an artificial heart patent 😊

[@robertjean5782]

Send him an email complaint😅

[@beccawiley6684]

Gads, I hate Jerry Mahoney. I wish it was just Paul Winchell alone.

[@kristabrewer9363]

THANK YOU!!

[@robertjean5782]

​@@kristabrewer9363ya don't have to watch 😅

[@erichanson426]

I'm just so sick of comedians in general on this show that waste precious air time trying to be funny.

[@peternagy-im4be]

Mostly completely unfunny.

[@thesweeples3266]

Then why do either of you continue to watch…. For opportunities to make negative comments?

[@robertjean5782]

​@thesweeples3266 Totally agree, I tell some to send email complaint😅

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

I imagine the hair of John Daly, Bennett Cerf and Mayor Daley smelled like petroleum.

[@sansacro007]

Vitalis! Reminds me of my dad, a WWII military vet. RIP

[@robertjean5782]

Daly had a toupee😊

[@boataxe4605]

Do you own a machine?

[@Fush1234]

I think the fella with the dummy is a dummy himself

[@robertjean5782]

He had patented the artificial heart, which saved thousands of people lives😊

[@debrareisdorf309]

That ventriloquist dummy is weird.

[@peternagy-im4be]

And not particularly funny.

[@appnzllr]

Paul Winchell destroys the show

[@kristabrewer9363]

She's a MODEL?? She must be 80 YEARS OLD!

[@accomplice55]

And 80-year-old women don't wear clothing?

[@MoiAussi18]

And not just clothing. Might be a scene, for example, with a family in which she plays the grandmother. The possibilities are endless.

[@robertjean5782]

81 as Daly said😊

[@robertjean5782]

​@@accomplice55😅

[@markshere100]

What a crook Daly was.

[@dox78]

Mark Shere Daly the moderator or Daley the mayor? :-P

[@kristabrewer9363]

I don't get why somebody ALWAYS has to like every comment made on youtube, even when they're dumb :(. If you don't like John Daly, don't watch him

[@richardrice8076]

Still a better mayor than the 2 most recent 🤡's.

[@robertjean5782]

​@kristabrewer933 Exactly they're from another era😅

[@robbycan]

Paul Winchell is a funny guy and very talented, but that dummy routine creeps me out.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Wonderful edition apart from once again the cringing dialogue between Arlene and Dorothy and that block of wood.

[@simeonbaumel7293]

Miss Universe? I'll bet the Klingons or Romulans didn't vote for her.

[@c.weltscheff5970]

creepy how the host insisted on holding guests' hands, especially the ladies.

[@sophiemorrison9820]

I believe I've seen almost every episode. Daly holds the hands of contestants to get them to stay in the camera shot.

[@robertjean5782]

​@@sophiemorrison9820Exactly😊

[@markxxx21]

College man doesn't know that a mosquito is an animal??? No wonder America lost its way

[@robertjean5782]

Apparently you don't know ither insect 😅

[@janetwilliams7665]

It's very suspicious to me that Bennet got right off onto politics with the mayor. Normally he goes straight to entertainment.

[@juliansinger]

+Janet Williams 1956 was, as Mr. Saiyan notes, an election year, and the Convention season was right around the corner. As in, starting in a week or so. And also, the way they applauded -- not hugely vociferous, respectful, and no whistling -- didn't indicate someone entertainment-focused or beautiful (So no, no cheating.)

[@markxxx21]

Because John keeps throwing clues, in this case, "we won't give you the home town" which would lead to asking about the town, and away from entertainment.