Art Carney Special - "What's My Line?" Spoof with Dick Van Dyke (Dec 4, 1959) RARE CLIP [UPGRADE!]

[@loissimmons6558]

Art Carney was a true comic genius and he shows it here. As for his impersonation of John Daly being spot on, that was especially true of his hand gestures during the conference.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Totally agree. Carney is one of my heros. This was a very well observed and specific take on John, going well beyond simply putting on a hoity toity Midatlantic accent and using big words!

[@jefferygoodman9928]

@What's My Line?@Lois Simmons: As as child when I watched this with my parents they always said that John’s hand gestures were signals to the panel to ask certain questions.

[@lightbearer90292]

@@jefferygoodman9928 really? That's now against the law. Did you see QUIZ SHOW?

[@teresahooks3746]

That was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time!!!😅🤣😂

[@Yeeeooo]

His hand gestures had me laughing so hard I was pointing thinking just that!

[@sarahlynn7894]

That was hilarious! 😂 Dick Van Dyke still here in January 2023 at 97 years old! Amazing!

[@willoughby1888]

"A wooden leg named 'Smith... A wooden leg named 'Smith'... a wooden leg, named... HA!" Sweet and loveable Mary Poppins(Julia Andrews) must have left Dick Van Dyke some decent magic without him even knowing it before she flew away, it would appear. Or it could just be his sweet spirit which has kept him going. I'm 65, aiming for at least 77. But, I'll be thankful if I see any more years than the number 'none'. Every 'next breath' is a sweet gift when you honestly think about it. Every beat of the heart, a worn traumatized and tired heart or a comically happy and tranquil one. Same gifts, different people.

[@graperonto]

As a HUGE fan of WML, I have to say this was pure genius. "Darlene" wearing a necklace in the shape of a club instead of Arlene's famous heart... their inflections were PERFECT.

[@ericmaine]

I love "Darlene's fall after she takes her mask off.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Perfect imitation of John Daly, as well as of Arlene. Hilarious!

[@ifbpeanut]

This made me laugh so much! That Arlene Francis impersonation was spot-on!

[@darleneofthetallpines5742]

I love when Darlene falls out of her chair! Thanks so much for posting this clip!

[@SteveLittleLivesHere]

Yes Garrett is great in this!

[@goosewhisperer6275]

Yes! I loved the whole thing, but my favorite part was Darlene, falling out of her chair. :)

[@appledoreman]

After viewing around 200 "real" episodes (all on KZbin, of course), this is a real treat, brilliantly done. Thanks for posting.

[@RayNDeere]

The snubbed Panelist is William Pierson, who played the part of Marko the Mailman in the play and movie Stalag 17 and later played Dean Travers of the culinary school on Three's Company

[@ifbpeanut]

"Shapiro, Shapiro, Shapiro...." Stalag 17 is one of my favorite movies.

[@dreamquesttv]

"Two girls?" - Dean Travers

[@lorilori3]

This is one of the best spoofs ever, and hilarious no matter how many times I've watched it. Thank you for posting this updated version WML!

[@WhatsMyLine]

Glad you enjoyed it-- thanks for the comment, lori lori!

[@witherblaze]

Could someone do me a favor and give me the lines for the "Are you on Broadway" bit?

[@Lampshade51]

Carney nailed John Charles Daly perfectly. The long, long explanation about Broadway theaters with lots of linguistic acrobatics like Daly would do was absolutely brilliant and hilarious!

[@paperbackonly8438]

The best part is that it actually makes sense doesn't it? "Broadway usually means the theater but it also exhibits other forms of art, in which sense the answer is maybe."

[@Paul71H]

Amazingly good parody! They did a great job of exaggerating and poking good-natured fun at many aspects of the show -- John Daly's loquacity, the mystery guest's disguised voice, the type of questions asked (are you on Broadway, movie opening on Broadway, etc.), Arlene Francis's voice and mannerisms, John Daly's conferences, and more. Just a really great parody. Saturday Night Live (from any era you want to choose) couldn't have done better.

[@serpentines6356]

Very fun clip! Did not know about these spoofs at all! These are great for any younger people studying film, and TV personalities.

[@44032]

Art and Dick. Two great comic geniuses.

[@nuwavedave]

Brilliant satire performed by two of America's most-beloved artistic geniuses.

[@jamielunsford1]

Simply brilliant!

[@Yeeeooo]

I've spent the last month watching all these old episodes; this was fantastic. Well paced, great jokes, great impressions. Really shows what a great talent they all were.

[@puppystampede9268]

Thanks so much for posting this! The timing between Art Carney and Dick Van Dyke is wonderful to see! I love the joke that "Stone" wasn't disguising his voice, after all. I'm guessing Art Carney was a huge WML fan.

[@MICHGO1]

SO MANY GUESTS LIKE BETTE DAVIS DIDN'T DO A VERY GOOD JOB OF DISGUISING THEIR VOICES.

[@Lava1964]

Art Carney was a mystery guest several times and had worked with John Daly on radio in the 1940s.

[@goosewhisperer6275]

@@Lava1964 Thank you for that information; I wasn't aware of that.

[@marycleary7810]

Yes and one of the best mystery guests

[@MICHGO1]

SPOT ON. ESPECIALLY "AND ARE YOU STAYING AT MY HOUSE?". SEEMED LIKE THEY ALL KNEW EACH OTHER AND THE PRODUCERS DIDN'T WORK VERY HARD TO GET MYSTERY GUESTS.

[@389383]

Famous people know famous people. They should have gotten four schlubs from the audience and they would rarely find the answer.

[@emmabradford137]

Arlene and Bennett were next-door neighbors, and they often had her husband, Mr. Gabel, on the WML panel.

[@christopherdunne7848]

Carney had Daly down pat! And, Stone's real voice was a funny surprise.

[@freeguy77]

Art and Dick! What a fabulous talent each was, and a joy to see them together here! Art never got to show on "The Honeymooners" his other rarely-seen talent: a highly-skilled verbal and visual impersonator! Not to mention he could do dramatic roles, as his Oscar-winning turn for Best Actor as 'Harry" in "Harry and Tonto" (rel. Aug. 12, 1974), winning in the 1975 Oscars broadcast. Jackie Gleason gave him a very large percentage of the success of "The Honeymooners" which shows how classy a big star Jackie was to do that for Art. Dick is easily the most versatile actor who could do comedy, drama, sing, dance,, mime, do some impressions, and succeed in theater, nightclubs, Broadway (a Tony for "Bye, Bye Birdie' 1960), films, and television, winning 3 Emmy's for "The Dick Van Dyke Show." He also received a Grammy Award in 1964, along with Julie Andrews, for his performance on the soundtrack to Mary Poppins. There is hardly anything he can't do well to entertain! There are barely any individual in Hollywood today who has one-tenth the talent of either of these two esteemed entertainers, and far less with both together!

[@roll3d6]

Art had a fantastic impression of John Charles Daly! mannerisms, accent, diction...just fantastic!

[@GAILandROD]

This is total halarious!

[@williamsircin6025]

This is so, SO close to the real WML.

[@rolom3]

Oh my god everything about this is soooo accurate I can’t get over it 😂

[@Molly-kv5si]

*bangs heads* was that a yes or a no, John? 😂😂

[@rmelin13231]

David Doyle - a perfect impersonation of Cerf. They were all great! This is classic.

[@stevefowler1787]

Art Carney really was a talent...as I young kid in the 60's all I remember was him being on the Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason.

[@vasp99]

AMAZING , I never dreamed that WML had such a sense of humor about itself !

[@MICHGO1]

THIS WAS INDEPENDENT OF WHAT'S MY LINE.

[@nancypotts6257]

Spot. On. Perfection!

[@cubematrixstudio7605]

This is pure gold!

[@scotnick59]

Great to see Dick a few years before his immortal sitcom was running

[@catherinemelnyk]

What a great spoof!

[@AstralPixie]

To recap your recap: Carney - John Charles Daly, Betty Garrett's Arlene Francis, Gloria Vanderbilt (as Dorothy Kilgallen) and David Doyle (as Bennett Cerf)

[@taraxacum]

Thanks. Their impersonations were great.

[@randysills4418]

Betty Garrett was a lovely lady. I helped her with an account at a bank and she was so nice!

[@randysills4418]

Gloria Vanderbilt was Anderson Cooper's mother...

[@twc8356]

David Doyle was the perfect Bennet Cerf

[@twc8356]

@@randysills4418 Betty was hilarious in the movie “on the Town” chasing Frank Sinatra

[@DavidLari]

A few days after this spoof aired, Art Carney appeared on the real WML as the celebrity mystery guest, and duplicated some of the 'small conference' bit on the real show. He and John Daly were good friends and colleagues.

[@joshjacobs3906]

man this was funny lol....never seen it before.......had to google to realize Betty Garrett was on Laverne & Shirley

[@jefferygoodman9928]

@josh jacobs: She was in “All in the Family” before L and S. During the McCarthy era her husband was blacklisted and she had trouble finding work.

[@StrawberryFunNtheSun]

Hilarious!!! I had no idea that Art Carney was so versatile and talented! That private conference between him and Dick van Dyke was perfect! And the imitations of Dorothy, Arlene, and Bennett were spot on!!! Just curious- - - today this would be a Saturday Night Live skit- - - in what venue was this made?

[@ifbpeanut]

True, it would be a Saturday Night Live skit, except clean.

[@lauracollins4195]

Krissy Krygiel Evans - Art Carney had his own television variety show from 1959-1960. This is a skit from that show. What a talented man. :)

[@389383]

@@ifbpeanut In the SNL version Dick and Art would have made out.

[@JDAbelRN]

@@ifbpeanut clean AND FUNNY, unlike SNL OF today.

[@geniusmchaggis]

ART CARNEY WAS A GENIUS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. His seemingly extemporaneous rendition of a JD rant was 200 IQ. It made sense...it was exact... it was perfectly put. if he memorised a script it was genius. if he invented it himself it was 300 IQ. NORTON!

[@carolv8450]

Simply Mahvelous!

[@albertardiscohn4900]

love all my KZbin subscriptions!!!

[@mylifeisaparty]

The fact they parodied the silence during the name signing LMFAO

[@reneshay889]

Excellent! Wish there was more!

[@darkbagel69]

This is awesome. Are there full episodes of Art's specials anywhere on the interwebs?

[@jennifersiagian]

what a trip super Talent was then and we can still enjoy today..

[@no_handle_required]

This is excellent

[@mehboobkm2018]

We need more of these!

[@marycleary7810]

This is awesome !

[@dekelanson5280]

The guy playing Bennet Cerf really cracked me up.

[@vanceox]

David Doyle, who portrayed Bosley on the “Charley’s Angels” TV series

[@robertpolityka8464]

Excellent parody!

[@Karen-nn6kg]

This is stunningly on point! The personations are uncanny! David Doyle from Charlie's Angles as Bennett Cerf! This is nothing short of brilliant! Also, I wonder why Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Carl Reiner or anyone from The Dick Van Dyke Show never appeared on What's My Line?

[@blitzburghbilly7813]

HOW IZ IT, THAT THIS IZ NOT RAN MORE OFTEN ON (YT) TIMELINES 🤔 ..... A (HILARIOUS "CLASSIC") RIGHT HERE. ( KNUCKLE👊🏽BUMP ) What's My Line ? .....

[@paulsmith2577]

Superb

[@sdkelmaruecan2907]

I think the WML spoof in "101 Dalmatians" should also be part of your library, don't you think?

[@ifbpeanut]

Yes! What's My Crime!

[@joemackey1950]

@@ifbpeanut There was a skit from the early '50s called "What's my Racket?" that is hilarious since the panel is practically told what the guest does and they could never get it. Saw it somewhere on UT some time ago. WML is my favourite panel show and been watching the shows from 1950 and up to 1965 now.

[@ifbpeanut]

@@joemackey1950 I would love to see that! I'll have to look it up!

[@FeggyMin]

sooo hilarious hahahaha love this!

[@bloodgrss]

Had missed this wonderful skit before now; so funny! An example, in a 'simpler' and more careful time, of great comedic satire and spoof with very talented people and great writers. For the many naysayers below who lament the 'lack' of such talent today, that is not true. Just as rose colored glasses make people forget the majority of dated or poor comedy in those far off days, there are many brilliant comic minds performing today amongst the bad. you lament. For example, for all it's misfires, SNL sketches and political spoofs can be hysterical in this uploads manner, like the 2016 campaigns and debates, with Kate McKinnon, Larry David, and Alec Baldwin, and the brilliant Jeopardy parody's with Will Ferrell, etc.

[@JDAbelRN]

I disagree strongly. Comedy today, like SNL, is over the top and really not funny in the slightest way. The so called political skits are not in the least funny nor smart, unless you belong to a certain political belief system currently in vogue. Truly horrible and not funny. SNL IS Poorly written and acted, and I believe future generations will find them quite unentertaining

[@bloodgrss]

​@@JDAbelRN Well J, I am not one to defend the quality of most of SNL-which through all its years has missed more than hit. But, sorry, at their best the political skits are a highlight of humor-whatever side you are on. As for 'future' generations; compare the timeless comedy of I Love Lucy, with the dozens of other 50's and 60's sitcoms that tried hard to be that (I Married Joan a particularly mind stunting comedic bomb that has lost any small bit of humor it might once have had) and we are confronted with the fact that humor is completely personal to us all, and contemporary humor ages fast. There are luckily a few comic talents and geniuses in every era, so I stand by my original statement wholeheartedly, and must take issue, not with your right to state opinion, but with your blanket dismissal of all that is modern in comedy today. It may be bad to you, just ain't so to a lot of the rest of us...

[@buzzsinned1294]

Hell of funny...

[@TylerDeBoy]

Joke on the end 😂. They were in the same plane lmfao

[@FreihEitner]

Fairly spot-on. :-)

[@ALANLACORTEBRITO]

COOL THAT TV SHOW

[@jburma]

0:40 "Judging from the huuuuge applaaause" So perfect.

[@lennypearl]

Here's the WML episode where Art Carney was a Mystery Guest after this aired, and John asked him to repeat that long line about Broadway! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpvUkKSgrdZ9pLc

[@joseh3564]

SNL should take notes. This is funny, without being mean spirited.

[@4seeableTV]

I wonder what the real WML participants thought of it? I think they would've enjoyed it.

[@lennypearl]

When Art Carney was a Mystery Guest after this aired, John asked him to repeat that long line about Broadway. The panel loved it! Here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpvUkKSgrdZ9pLc

[@FreihEitner]

@@lennypearl The real What's My Line episode is what brought me to this spoof. I've been binge watching WML for the past few weeks.

[@DarbyAlexanderFarms]

I'm in tears! Haha

[@annamarielorenzo2730]

i couldnt breathe i laughed soooo hard!

[@lissettesbloom8223]

This was a funny spoof.

[@maryoliver3868]

hilarious

[@witherblaze]

Could someone transcribe Jon's 6 page maybe on "Are you on Broadway?"

[@juliehuston8609]

"Panel, I believe you asked the question 'is our mystery guest on Broadway?'. Well, If we are to use the term 'Broadway' in its strict heretofore accepted generic sense, that is a projection of a legitimate creation emanating from behind the proscenium arch of a structure devoted strictly to the presentation of dramatis vehiculatus, but juxtaposed to this semantically, the phrase 'Broadway' conjures also a conglomeration of structures offering entertainments of various varieties in the more popular form of artistic endeavor. Therefore, I believe that the fairest and most correct answer to your question would be a firm maybe, wouldn't you agree?" That took a lot of rewinding to transcribe!

[@witherblaze]

@@juliehuston8609 thanks!

[@stellaa302]

Are they mocking What's My Line?

[@psygn0sis]

LOL.

[@bobloblaw9679]

fake dorothy in a tiara lol

[@nandofigueira2005]

hahahaha very funny

[@gregorszurnicki41]

2019 n nothing comes close in comedy today.

[@altavivo]

Why did they call Dick Van Dyke Stone Martin?

[@ifbpeanut]

There was a very popular actor back then named Rock Hudson. He really did play the He-Man, brute types. They used the name Stone because stones and rocks are basically the same thing, and Martin because it was a generic name similar to Hudson. In other words, he was parodying Rock Hudson.

[@altavivo]

@@ifbpeanut Thank You. I didn't know that.

[@ifbpeanut]

@@altavivo no problem!

[@maraflore]

i think he should have been called Stone ,,,,wait for it ...Mason lol

[@karenmallonee3867]

🤣

[@jakehobbs]

Did he ever do an actual what’s my line? If not, why?

[@FreihEitner]

Yes, there are some links elsewhere in these comments to at least one Art Carney appearance on the real What's My Line. One of those is what led me to this spoof.

[@jakehobbs]

I meant dick van dyke sorry!!

[@davidarcudi230]

Not far from a real episode

[@geraldkatz7986]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@thebookdoc.writing.and.editing]

that was really fucking weird.

[@KCGeno]

Love this! Now I have to read the comments, to find out who was on the panel.