What's My Line? - Suzy Knickerbocker; Ed Sullivan; PANEL: Phyllis Newman, Dick Cavett (Oct 23, 1966)

[@jimc.9465]

Cavett 17:18 "I just had a terrible feeling that the guest is sitting there wondering who I am" 😃

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Suzy Knickerbocker lived to be 98 years old, passing away in 2016.

[@ToddSF]

Dick Cavett was one of the brighter people on U.S. television back in the late 1960's and 1970's. He had an excellent talk show on ABC opposite NBC's "The Tonight Show" and, before he got his own show, he was a writer on the "The Tonight Show" and continued doing that when Johnny Carson became the host. Cavett is a graduate of Yale University, by the way.

[@geoh7777]

That was back when being a graduate of Yale (or Harvard) meant something.

[@williamsecor7745]

Ed not only appeared in this theater on his show they eventually named it after him. It is now the Ed Sullivan Theater.

[@ApexOrion04]

Fun fact Suzy is one of my great great aunts

[@ladyyuna2000]

Amazing people on What's My Line? May they all rest in peace except for Dick Cavett who's still alive and he's (83) years old.

[@mikevanriel7573]

As of 2022, Dick Cavett is still alive.

[@bogieviews]

@@mikevanriel7573 Still 2023, only 86.

[@john81566]

​@@mikevanriel7573 As of May 2024 Dick Cavett is still alive. He's 87 years old.

[@Chris-be1fo]

12:05 Mr Dick Calvert asked “Would it be unusual to give one of these as a wedding present?” John gives him a yes then flips a card “That’s 2 down and 8 to go” No one noticed John’s mistake. Luckily it didn’t make any difference to the outcome.

[@gailsirois7175]

What mistake

[@rmelin13231]

@@gailsirois7175 A "yes" answer doesn't earn a card flip.

[@allmyrattys]

I've been watching these shows too much! When Dick Cavit asked would it be unusual to give as a wedding gift Daly gave him a no. The way he asked it should not be.

[@broughtbackin]

Came here to see if someone else noticed. Mr. Daly has done this a few times over the years and nobody noticed!

[@gilbertotongco1054]

Dorothy and Arlene are simply brilliant and loveable

[@andytaylor5476]

Bennet Cerf is amazing at times. RIP Phyllis Newman 9/19 age 86.

[@soulierinvestments]

I am old enough to have watched and to remember the live broadcast when CBS took this studio and renamed it "The Ed Sullivan Theater" the next year.

[@randysills4418]

Suzy Knickerbocker lived to be 98!

[@VahanNisanian]

"The Ed Sullivan Show" (originally called "Toast of the Town") had a great run for 24 years and over 1,000 episodes from 1948 to 1971. Sullivan died in 1974.

[@Lava1964]

Correct--except it ran for 23 years.

[@Lava1964]

I don't think it had 1,000 episodes. It was in the high 800s, though.

[@VahanNisanian]

Dick Cavett appears again as guest panelist on January 1, 1967 (taped on December 4, 1966), and was a Mystery Guest on the new WML in 1968 and 1974.

[@galileocan]

Dear Suzy - you're the greatest!

[@VahanNisanian]

The last B&W episode of "The Ed Sullivan Show" was taped on August 14, 1965, aired on September 12, and The Beatles were the main attraction that night. There were six weeks worth of color episodes done here in Los Angeles at CBS Television City, while Studio 50 was getting refitted with color equipment.

[@AllenMQuinn]

11:40 How did they not show Bennett and Arlene's reaction!? After all these years of Daly stumping them, their reaction would have been gold.

[@garyzerr8134]

Poignant comment by John Daly when he said we will be starting our 18th year next year when in fact the only thing left of this wonderful class act in the syndicated version to follow was Arlene.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Check out the miniature "disco balls" hanging from Phyllis Newman's ears! 😄

[@MrJoeybabe25]

At about 12:10 Dick says "would it be unusual to give one of these as a wedding present"....he gets a yes, but a card is turned over anyway. Jeepers!

[@chaplainmattsanders4884]

Right!

[@Beson-SE]

The last conestant, mrs Pat Carlsson, was sister of Stirling Moss and married to Swedish rally driver Erik Carlsson (aka "Carlsson on the roof" or "Mr Saab").

[@preppysocks209]

Stirling Moss was a WML guest in 1959

[@VahanNisanian]

This was a great episode. Great to see it in full, too, besides just the Sullivan segment. The panel would have had a perfect episode, if they hadn't been stumped in Game 4.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Were they taping more shows in this last season? October doesn't seem like the time when the panel would take off.

[@VahanNisanian]

@@MrJoeybabe25 31 live, 16 taped.

[@paulamiles9559]

Lookit that hair! Suzy has a B52.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Most of you probably know that Phyllis Newman was married to the songwriter Adolph Green, who was more than 20 years her senior, for many years. Talk about being spoiled!

[@berwyn58]

and if you recall, Jimmy Carter (as played by Dan Akkroyd) felt that God did not forgive Carter for lusting after Phyllis Newman!

[@tomitstube]

is it just me or is phyllis newman gorgeous?

[@henrywyche]

No, your not gorgeous

[@lilybean835]

It's just you. She's annoying.

[@davidsanderson5918]

tomitstube I don't know but I just find it amusing that she thinks she needs to shout while wearing a blindfold.

[@gailsirois7175]

It's just you

[@robbob1234]

9:42 Phyllis is blinded by the glare of the studio lights reflecting off Suzy's dress.

[@loissimmons6558]

Q. What do the two Mystery Guests have in common besides being MG's on WML? A. At some point in their careers, both of them were newspaper columnists.

[@Beson-SE]

Bennett went to school (PS10 [Public School Nr 10] in Manhattan) with mrs Ed Sullivan and Richard Rodgers (Rodgers & Hammerstein). 19:30

[@davidsanderson5918]

Johan Bengtsson Bennett seemingly spent his entire life hanging around with showbiz people!!

[@VahanNisanian]

On December 10, 1967, Studio 50 was officially renamed "The Ed Sullivan Theater".

[@Beson-SE]

Poor Suzy! Did Phyllis really have to mention (in her question if she was a man) that Suzy didn't get any whistles when enter? :/ 4:02

[@jethro1963]

Never liked Phyllis, as she either looked or acted ditzy, not so much in this appearance or her very early ones, but in most others I found her annoying. Classy save by Arlene as she later commented that Suzy looked as good as the people she wrote about.

[@soulierinvestments]

Yeah. Phyllis could have been more diplomatic.

[@jmccracken1963]

To me, it is quite possible that the production staff may have asked the audience not to "wolf-whistle" when Suzy entered, so that the panel couldn't deduce the sex of the Mystery Guest from same. And she did, indeed, manage to fool the panel for quite a while!

[@princeharming8963]

Johan Bengtsson - I always got the impression from Phyllis that she appeared to think of herself as being just a bit more attractive and cosmopolitan than she actually was.

[@Beson-SE]

I agree with you totally.

[@VahanNisanian]

The only time two of the best Female guest panelists of the post-Dorothy era were seen together. And "Oh, my God!" at Phyllis!

[@soulierinvestments]

"Did you read "Sex and the Single Girl?" "The mystery guest must be wondering who I am." Classic lines. LOL Too bad it never quite worked out to have Gabel / Blyden / Cavett as regular panelists or Suzy / Sue / Jeanne. Phyllis was the most obvious replacement to Dorothy: be interesting to know what reasons kept it from actually happening in 1966.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

I think it was decided no one could replace Dorothy after all these years, and they liked mixing things up a bit with guest panelists.

[@washoe4827]

Ed replied "no"...

[@soulierinvestments]

freeze at 2:44; pan starting at 3:05, pan starting at 25:24 -- the new color cameras can get good close ups of the panelists's faces and readable name plates. It is as if the director has never noticed name plates before now and is enamored of them.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

But videotape pans were still not well done, the faster the pan, the worse the picture. This improved over the years, but even today electronic cameras are still short of film when it comes to movement.

[@neilmidkiff]

@@MrJoeybabe25 And of course we're watching these on KZbin in compressed digital video, so the image quality degradation because of compression artifacts during camera movement is a much bigger issue than anything related to the videotape or the kinescope.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Is a Halloween mask apparel? The dictionary says in it's second definition:"anything that decorates or covers".

[@davidsanderson5918]

Joe Postove Apparel usually refers to clothing. A Halloween mask would come under 'costume'.

[@soulierinvestments]

Technically, Arlene had been a panelist for 16 year plus. Bennett had been a regular panelist for 15 years plus months.

[@Beson-SE]

About John's conferences; I am sure John strived to have a nice breath, but what if one of the contestants smelled like a sewer? I am very sensitive to bad breath myself. After some conferences you can see John almost throw his head from the person. Did they give each contestant a Läkerol (Yeah Swedish!) or Ricola before they entered? It's a yucky question but I am curious. [Since Jules Montenier and his Stopette was sponsor for many years I won't even mention what they did if the contestants had BO...]

[@robbob1234]

All the men smelled like cigarettes, coffee, and cologne. Later in the day there would be alcohol as well!

[@VahanNisanian]

Sitcom-wise, the only sitcom I can think of that was taped at "The Ed Sullivan Theater" was "Kate & Allie" (1984-1989).

[@nataliedelagrandiere4022]

The Ed Sullivan show was my favorite. I didn't know any of the other people at the time. Now I like seeing some of the interviews by Dick Cavett.

[@randylovering24]

The last season of what's my line was a great try but with out Dorothy it was not the same

[@gailsirois7175]

Nope..it wasn't..was a miss

[@soulierinvestments]

11:26 -- only Danny Kaye's 1960 satire of John Daly's interperative semantics is more funny than Dick Cavett's here. And in that sequence, I think John gave Dick an incorrect no.

[@loissimmons6558]

+soulierinvestments In regard to the segment where the product was Halloween masks, Dick asked if the product would be unusual to give as a wedding gift. John actually gave it a yes but then flipped the card over anyway. Dick being a newcomer to the panel just let the card flip stand. No doubt Arlene (who was fierce in battling card flips), Bennett, Dorothy and many of the more frequent guest panelists would have immediately protested that they had received a yes and John would have sheepishly given some excuse or simply pretended that he was trying to get one past them.

[@ejej6934]

They should have had Top Gigio as a mystery guest on the same show.

[@FlockOfHawks]

10:00 Kacourek = Koocerek ???

[@galileocan]

Did you catch Suzy refer to John as "Mr. Cerf"?

[@Scot913319]

Yeah, but Bennett was asking the question about the meow. She just happened to turn to John, for some reason.

[@VahanNisanian]

The reason WML moved to Studio 50 in September 1966 was because Studio 52 was not big enough for the additional lighting needed. It must have been a challenge to strike Sullivan's set in an hour and a half in favor of WML's set. Was this the reason they did this episode of WML, along with the next one, on Monday, because they were having Ed Sullivan as Mystery Guest?

[@MrJoeybabe25]

You would think if Ed was a MG, it would be better to do it on Sunday. All Ed would have to do is sit in dressing room, alone, thinking that he really is good looking.

[@loissimmons6558]

+Vahan Nisanian I think you answered your own question. It was difficult enough to strike the "Ed Sullivan Show" set in time for the 10:30 PM (Eastern time) start of WML. It would be that much harder to strike it in time for an extra WML to be pre-recorded. And some sets for Sullivan must have been more difficult to strike than others. Besides, if the show was being preempted some weeks and the WML crew didn't need to come in on Sunday, any other day of the week would have been just as good for the WML crew and on stage personalities to appear. It wasn't like they were being asked to come in twice. The main problem that Monday caused compared to Sunday would be booking current Broadway stars as Mystery Guests. The Broadway theaters were dark on Sunday evenings (as John Daly would often mention when he thanked Broadway stars for appearing on their evening off), but there were performances on Monday evening.

[@soulierinvestments]

Ed Sullivan started his variety show in 1948, so it would be darned interesting to know the date of his first kinescope. He was as an impresario a great judge of talent and new talent; his program from 1948 to 1971 was like Who's Who of Showbiznia in that era. Shrewd producer, too. For 2 examples: his program went to color in September 1965, a full year before WML did. He alsoroutinely videotaped his 1960s archive, BandW and color. The Sullivan Trust has kept a tight leash on the show's copywrites. Hardly any of it shows up on KZbin, but a lot of it has turned up on DVD.

[@loissimmons6558]

Ah Showbiznia ... a quaint little town, just this side of Altoona.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

There's a Sullivan channel on youtube, run by whoever owns the Sullivan show.

[@savethetpc6406]

Given what Ed Sullivan wore during his first WML Mystery Guest appearance, I'm wondering if it was *not* a coincidence that he was now on the same episode as the Halloween mask-maker! i1.ytimg.com/vi/jvEV8zGMNRo/hqdefault.jpg

[@VahanNisanian]

SaveThe TPC It was not his first. He was on before in 1950, an episode that no longer exists. The episode with him wearing the mask was only his second appearance. www.tv.com/shows/whats-my-line/episode-23-92540/

[@savethetpc6406]

***** I stand corrected. I meant his Sept. 14, 1958 appearance.

[@soulierinvestments]

And that 1958 appearance is one of the most funny mystery guest sequences of the 1950s.

[@ChuckMehle]

Suzy Knickerbocker was once Married to my Dad, Roger Mehle.

[@soulierinvestments]

Thanx haven this sponsor didn't sponsor WML in the days of Hal Block. I hate to think what sort of jingle he would have come up with for it.

[@loissimmons6558]

And then there was the time that Archie asked Edith to bring him Kaopectate and she brought him Milk of Magnesia instead ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zn3PdnmHoL17h5Y

[@RonGerstein]

The mask lady would have been married 58 years now if there was no divorce or death since she got married on 10/30/66.

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Phyllis Newman was a great panelist

[@broughtbackin]

She was the WORST, most irritating panelist ever. Her voice is like running nails down a chalkboard. YUCK

[@Steve27775]

Pat Moss-Carlsson died in 2008 at the age of 73.

[@Steff2929again]

Steve27775 Her husband, Erik Carlsson, mentioned in the show, died 27 May 2015.

[@efesgirl999]

Suzy Knickerbocker will be NINETY-ONE on April 21st~!!!

[@biondanishgenomeinstitute8193]

Daly makes a mistake at 12:00 and noone protests ..

[@49yt]

Dick Cavett is active today at age 78. He is going to play himself in a play. www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-dick-cavett-mccarthy-hellman-play-20141118-story.html Also he has a book out with forward by Jimmy Fallon. www.amazon.com/Brief-Encounters-Conversations-Moments-Assorted/dp/0805099778 ....more... And he was a guest on the CBS late night show Feb. 13, 2015 "The Late Late Show" which can be found online at CBS.com

[@savethetpc6406]

Funny to see Dick Cavett as a young man with short hair -- and a relative unknown at that. I remember him best as he looked in the 1970s, I guess: ronbenningtoninterviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/dick_cavett_435x290.jpg. (I'm not actually sure when that photo/screenshot was taken, but that's the way I usually think of Dick Cavett.) Also interesting that he said he watched WML as a boy. He was born in 1936, so I guess he meant as a teenaged boy. He was clever and humorous here, as always. I loved his trying to outdo John Daly in the confusing language department! (11:27)

[@Beson-SE]

SaveThe TPC He was an excellent guest panelist. The best for a very long time. He asked funny and unexpectent questions. Made witty remarks with a stooneface (I don't like persons who laughs at their own jokes) and had a subtle star quality. He could have been a very good actor. I never saw his own Show but I regret it now if he was like this. :)

[@49yt]

Johan Bengtsson Unless it is blocked in your country, there are quite a few interviews by Dick Cavett on KZbin. With people like Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Richard Burton, Bob Hope, Carol Burnett, George Harrison.

[@Beson-SE]

49yt Sounds great! I will search for them and take a look.

[@Beson-SE]

49yt Wonderful! Nice to see him be honoured like that. :)

[@JJJBRICE]

Phyllis Newman's question to Ed Sullivan at 16:15 and his response would be more scandalous to us here in 2019.

[@libertyann439]

Suzy was the best columnist AFTER Dorothy.

[@chuckendweiss4849]

liberty Ann ONLY

[@hopelewis5650]

10:09 around here is pronounced KoCOURek.

[@larryteren5054]

why did john flip the card when the lady said "yes" on dick cavett's question?

[@WhatsMyLine]

It was a boo boo. I didn't notice it myself until I saw someone else pointing it out, too.

[@druidbros]

Maybe John was flustered that Mr Cavett beat him at his own game.

[@oscarbeltran4833]

druidbros .l Ben

[@VahanNisanian]

Other game shows that called The Ed Sullivan Theater home besides "What's My Line?" (1966-1971) "The Big Payoff" (some CBS episodes) "By Popular Demand" (1950) "Musical Chairs" (1975) "Pass the Buck" (1978) "Password" (some CBS episodes) "Shoot for the Stars" (1977; some episodes) "Sing it Again" (1950-1951) "The $10,000 Pyramid" (1973-1974; November 1973 at CBS Television City Studio 31 in Hollywood, California) "Wheel of Fortune" (1952-1953; unrelated to the better known 1975-Present program)

[@MrJoeybabe25]

How old is that studio, Vahan? Was it ever used for radio?

[@VahanNisanian]

Joe Postove It was first built in 1927. Don't know about Radio.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

***** Was it built by CBS? If so, almost certainly radio was produced there.

[@VahanNisanian]

Joe Postove en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Sullivan_Theater#First_66_years

[@MrJoeybabe25]

***** According to the Wiki article (by the way, thanks Vahan, great copy) Merv Griffin also originated his first syndicated show from the theater. Since Merv's show started in 1965 and according to TV.com went to color August 24, 1967, I wonder if both color and black and white productions came from the studio. However that date for Merv moving to color seems rather late to me. CBS acquired the studio in 1936 and hosted lots of radio from it, including the premiere of " Major Bowes Amateur Hour".

[@VahanNisanian]

Recorded on Monday October 17, 1966, along with the next episode. And no, that is not a typo on the date.

[@soulierinvestments]

freeze at 3:42 -- WML 1966 had some fine female game players, though truth be told this one was my favorite possibility to fill Dorothy's chair.

[@savethetpc6406]

I like some guest panelists better than others (neither Suzy nor Phyllis is among my favorites, actually), but I think G-T made the right choice in not attempting to find a permanent replacement "to fill Dorothy's chair." I'm sure that there were many in the contemporary television audience who, like me, were not enough enamored with any one of the guest panelists to want to see that person every week. Mixing up that panel position with a variety of guest panelists, as they had been doing with the second male panel position for many years, made the show more interesting and perhaps drew fans of each celebrity panelist to the show for his/her episodes. It may also have prevented people who actually disliked any one particular panelist from giving up on the show.

[@soulierinvestments]

Then there is the issue -- by 1966, it must have been hard to get stars to make permanent commitments to any one TV show.

[@VahanNisanian]

Here is what preempted "What's My Line?" for the next two weeks: www.tv.com/shows/whats-my-line/preempted-week-22-of-25-98356/ www.tv.com/shows/whats-my-line/preempted-week-23-of-25-98357/

[@savethetpc6406]

For those who don't feel like clicking the links: Oct. 30th = "a news special devoted to Lyndon Johnson's trip to Asia" Nov. 6th = "a news special devoted to Tuesday's mid-term elections"

[@zacharydunlap-tunnage2220]

SaveThe TPC Thanks!

[@savethetpc6406]

Zachary Dunlap-Tunnage You're welcome! :)

[@loissimmons6558]

More and more we see WML being kicked to the curb, a sign that the plug will be pulled soon.

[@richatlarge462]

@@loissimmons6558 I knew things would be heading south when I saw that the 1966-67 KZbin grouping had only 74 episodes.

[@hairyscotman]

my goodness, Dick Cavett looks 14, here....

[@Beson-SE]

Ed Sullivan - Now there's a man to be starstruck over!

[@savethetpc6406]

Johan Bengtsson I'm always amazed by how funny Ed is in his WML appearances! He never came across as having much of a sense of humor on his own show.

[@Beson-SE]

SaveThe TPC Before I heard his voice for the first time I thought he was going to sound like Lurch. :)

[@savethetpc6406]

Johan Bengtsson You rannngg? ;)

[@Beson-SE]

SaveThe TPC More or less so.... :)

[@loissimmons6558]

+SaveThe TPC I wonder if he was too nervous to be intentionally funny when it was his own show. The stories of his various types of misspeaking are legendary and plentiful. Others however note that he had a poor memory and his struggles to remember names would interfere with his delivery. There is even some evidence that he was beginning to suffer from dementia near the end of his run on television. Coupled with his stiff and hunched posture, it would make him appear to be humorless and clueless. But Sullivan was fiercely protective of his brand. That was the one way to get on his bad side as some rock groups and individual performers like Bo Diddley and Buddy Holly found out if they went against Sullivan in terms of lyrics changes or song choice. However when he was on WML, Sullivan didn't have the pressure of protecting his brand or remembering the names of the performers he was introducing. Therefore he could be himself. Additional evidence of his sense of humor is that he actively encouraged certain entertainers, especially Will Jordan, to do impressions of him right on his show. And something I just learned was that he filled in for Red Skelton one time on Red's show and performed Red's part in all the sketches. It's actually somewhat ironic considering the line of one of the non-celebrity guests: on 9/14/58, Ed showed his intentional comedic side by wearing a rubber mask during his turn as Mystery Guest on WML.

[@pauledelsteinstudiogallery6397]

Who is SUZY KNICKERBOCKER?

[@davidsanderson5918]

Paul Edelstein Studio & Gallery Society columnist. Whatever that is.

[@kristabrewer6736]

She was on the Panel 2 weeks ago!

[@kristabrewer6736]

no she wasn't on the panel 2 weeks ago; I just looked at the date. I typed in Jan 23, and when the one who made Halloween masks came on, I looked at the date and it gave me OCT 23!

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Is Ed wearing a Yarmica?

[@VahanNisanian]

Joe Postove What's a "Yamica"?

[@519djw6]

***** I think he meant "yarmulka."

[@VahanNisanian]

519DJW In that case, I don't see one on Ed Sullivan's head.

[@WhatsMyLine]

***** Seeing as Ed Sullivan was Irish, I'm assuming Joe was making a joke.

[@VahanNisanian]

Well then, good one, Joe Postove.

[@arbyfatbuckle1733]

the young lady that made masks seemed like a very sweet young lady.

[@neilmidkiff]

I'm not usually this catty, but I'm up late with a headache, so excuse my bluntness. Suzy Knickerbocker is clearly sharp at playing the game and seems likely to have been a good columnist, but I don't find her at all appealing as a TV personality. She rarely smiles, in fact, more often looks either sour or uncomfortable at being there. Her hair and makeup seem overdone, and do not go well with her facial features. She lets the pitch of her voice fall in nearly every sentence, making her sound unenthusiastic. Although she's not quite this terrible, I can't help being reminded of the story about the report on someone's Hollywood test: "she has the ideal face for radio and a perfect voice for silent films."

[@neilmidkiff]

After seeing the Dec. 25 episode where Suzy is surprised by her son home on leave from submarine duty, I agree with the commenters to that program that she seems a great deal more personable under the influence of genuine emotion. So maybe what I'm reacting negatively to is an act, where she thinks she needs to be serious and businesslike (trying to follow in Dorothy's footsteps, maybe?) to gain a permanent seat on the panel. Whatever the motivation, it still doesn't work for me.

[@loissimmons6558]

+Neil Midkiff It sounds like the WML powers that be were leaning towards Suzy and trying to find any way they could to make her more warm, fuzzy and acceptable to the audience, but nothing really worked.

[@JIMRYAN-DESIGNER]

Always was glad to see Suzy on the panel. She was a NY sociallite as well as an entertainment reporter. She was very fashionable with great style.

[@jmw9904]

Even on this show, why does the audience clap like they got the correct answer even when it's not the right answer?

[@Beson-SE]

Bennett's Weekly Pun/Joke: John, you haven't one of these masks [Halloween mask] on have you tonight? :) 24:50

[@FlockOfHawks]

upon first reading this line , i missed the [n/Jo] . . . how appropriate 😎

[@libertyann439]

I grew up with a neighbor named Ed Sullivan. It wasn't this guy.

[@presto709]

Dick Cavett stole the show.

[@taraxacum]

Dick Cavett asked if it would be unusual to give the product as a wedding present and the guest nodded yes, but John gave him a no. Oblivious or what?

[@rogerpropes7129]

Ed Sullivan may well have been nicer than he seemed.

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

Cavett, the class smart-***

[@VahanNisanian]

John Lennon on "The Dick Cavett Show". kzbin.info?q=John+Lennon+dick+cavett

[@lilybean835]

It's also so sad to see them patter around in the beginning, including excessive introductions and gabbing, and that poor third contestant is rushed through the game and ushered off in sixty seconds. They never did seem to stop doing that. Along with having to share a chair I find that so disconcerting.

[@davidsanderson5918]

Lily Bean They'll still have got their appearance fee though.

[@moderne-ist1612]

I thought Sullivan was hilarious!!