What's My Line? - John Sellers; Phil Silvers; Joey Bishop [panel] (Jun 4, 1961)

[@StaciArdmore]

That entire exchange between Joey and John, during the college diploma guy was one of the greatest I've seen on this show!

[@sagarsaxena6318]

"..from a pamphlet to a great institution" damn that's a great line and high praise.

[@Rstlnep2]

I would like to thank the uploader of this series. Great job. I had a serious fall and have been watching from 1955 up to this show I had started from the beginning before that. I am a different David Evans from someone else that comments on videos too. I used to say things about volume. No more problems. Thanks again for these great shows.

[@WhatsMyLine]

+David Evans I'm very glad these shows have provided some comfort after being injured-- I hope you're recovering!

[@Rstlnep2]

+What's My Line? Yes I am recovering slowly surely.

[@AstralPixie]

I love Sgt. Bilko!! "You know you're in the crossword puzzle of TV Guide?"

[@soulierinvestments]

RE: Silvers’s baby born May 27, 1961, none other than CATHY SILVERS. An American actress and author, and the daughter of actor/comedian Phil Silvers. She is best known for her role as boy-crazy teenager Jenny Piccalo in later seasons of the TV sitcom “Happy Days.” RE: Do Re Mi. Ran on Broadway for 400 performances. Not bad for a musical about juke boxes.

[@savethetpc6406]

And now-a-days we have jukebox musicals! (I'll go hide now before somebody calls me "Mr. Cerf." ;) )

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Phil Silvers had five daughters, all born when he was 45 and older.

[@SD-it9ne]

I find Joey Bishop hilarious!

[@preppysocks209]

Once I heard a street musician playing "Nancy (With the Laughing Face." I asked him if he knew who wrote the lyrics to that song and he correctly replied, "Phil Silvers." I was surprised he knew and commented that it seemed strange that a guy like Phil Silvers would have written a lyric like that. The street musician replied that in his experience, people who are talented in one area are often talented in another.

[@redhed515]

Dorothy was so smart.

[@glennhoddle10]

Totally agree. Classy and elegant too.

[@brentgambrell]

That she was. Her death was a tragedy.

[@drumbum3.142]

Don't Mean to be a Rude Little Porcupine in saying this, And I Hope I'm Wrong; but I wonder if at times she was helped

[@halkahn5035]

As a reporter, Dorothy was a terrific listener and an incisive questioner.

[@accomplice55]

@@drumbum3.142 She wasn't. She was trained as an investigative reporter.

[@michaeldanello3966]

Arlene Francis' introduction of Joey Bishop refers to his upcoming filming of a movie Badlands. The title was changed to Sergeants 3 and was the 2nd and last film to star all 5 members of the Rat Pack: Sinatra, Dino, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr and Joey Bishop. The 1st was Oceans 11. Shortly thereafter Sinatra had a falling out with Lawford (long story). Sammy Davis was taught speed gun draws and other tricks by Rodd Redwing an Indian Hollywood trainer in guns and bows & arrows. Redwing was one of the fastest guns that ever lived and had appeared as a mystery guest on an earlier WML. Davis became so adept that he incorporated it in his act. Interestingly John Wayne encouraged Davis to become proficient with a gun and actually lent him his own old battered hat that he had worn in many of his westerns directed by John Ford. The hat was large for Davis and the Rat Packers kept pulling the hat down over Davis' head and saying "Wayne, huh?"

[@tjbnyc76]

Considering how frequently Joey Bishop appeared on the WML panel, and his close association with Frank Sinatra, one wonders how he diplomatically juggled his friendships with both the Charmain and Dorothy Kilgallen, who shared a mutual loathing.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Was he actually friends with Dorothy, though? Weren't they just colleagues on a TV show?

[@jamesfeldman4234]

Frank Sinatra was one of the most interesting and complex people in all of show business history, and yes, he did have several high-profile feuds with a number of people, including Dorothy Kilgallen. And it's true that loyalty was something that was extremely important to him. But his feelings about Dorothy did not rise to the level of "the friend of my enemy is my enemy" and he did not demand or even want that his friends cut off ties with Dorothy. So, Sinatra would have had no problem with a close friend like Phil Silvers, who also co-wrote one of the best songs in the Sinatra Songbook, "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)," having a friendly relationship with Dorothy. The same was true of other close friends, such as Kirk Douglas. But for an example of where the principle of "the friend of my enemy is my enemy" would apply to Sinatra, I'd cite columnist Lee Mortimer.

[@kenhenderson1762]

@@WhatsMyLine Although he was good friends with Bennett, Sinatra refused to go on WML until Dorothy was dead.

[@RonGerstein]

​@kenhenderson1762 With his then wife, Mia Farrow Sinatra, as the MG.

[@tomitstube]

took some research to figure out why joey bishop figured out jockey john sellers from a 7th place finish at the belmont rather than winning the kentucky derby... "carry back" had already won the first two legs of the triple crown, and the belmont was the mostly widely anticipated race of all three.

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

I was a teenager and watched the Kentucky Derby on our old black and white television and rooted for carry back because he was the best looking steed on the track!

[@tomitstube]

how about the days of "alternate sponsors"...? my favorite black and white show. love joey bishop's dead pan dry sense of humor and timing.

[@anneroy4560]

I like how when Arlene takes her blindfold off she adjusts her false eyelashes ... the one made by the once contestant.

[@christopherisin]

She adjusts her eyelash at 7:27... just fyi, because I had to look for it ;-)

[@soulierinvestments]

RE: Dorothy solving pickles practically all by her self. She may have remembered a sequence two years before involving another pickle packer. The questioning of that sequence got terribly complicated; Bennett and John exchanged pissed-off words; some of the questioning made John nauseous; the panel got lost in space and generated huge laughs anyway.

[@savethetpc6406]

I was glad to see Dorothy at the top of her game in this round! I was annoyed with John Daly in this episode, though. First he didn't even flip all the cards for the pickle lady who came all the way from Australia and only won $5 -- I know she wasn't in New York just for WML -- but still! Then he wasted all the diploma-maker's time with that one question -- and I think he was completely wrong in his assessment of the answer too. He should have just let Mr. Rosen's "no" stand and let the questioning continue.

[@jvcomedy]

SaveThe TPC I don't recall exactly when, but there is a point in time during the run of WML that all contestants got the $50 whether they made it through all 10 questions or not. The cards he flipped became nothing more than a prop to keep track of where they were in the game. I suspect that even though John didn't flip the cards that this lady was still given the $50.

[@TheBraveIntrovert]

soulierinvestments Well actually when Dorothy said "Well where am I?" Bennett said "pickles". Then Dorothy went on to ask like 7 more questions. That's partly what made Dorothy annoying to me. When she knows the answer she still continues with her questioning unnecessarily.

[@soulierinvestments]

Yeah verily. She could be the genius of hogged screen time.

[@savethetpc6406]

Purple Capricorn Good catch! If you listen closely, you can indeed hear Bennett say "pickles" at about 13:00. In this case, though, even though she asked a lot of questions, it only took 40 seconds for her to get through all of them to get to the pickle question. I think we can forgive her that, and I also think she was smart to ask enough questions to be sure that she would not be off base if she guessed pickles.

[@soulierinvestments]

RE: Arlene's introduction of Joey Bishop. The WML panel did not mention Utah much over the years. Kanab Utah -- then as now -- is a small town in South Utah red rock country. In the 1950s and 1960s, many Hollywood companies used it as a western movie and western TV filming location. Considering how sophisticated Sinatra, Bishop, and Martin were -- and big city sophisticates to boot -- Kanab must have bored them dry.

[@preppysocks209]

literally dry. So much of Utah, especially then, did not allow liquor sales.

[@jamesl9371]

Wow 😮 Phil was popular with the audience

[@leslie1947]

I find it very strange why many contestants are given all the $50 dollars while others are not. Especially people like the lady from Australia. Usually contestants from that far away are given the full prize.

[@RonGerstein]

All regular contestants receive $50, no matter what is shown.

[@wcwindom56]

Dorothy is lookig so much better here

[@gailsirois7175]

Disagree... hate that foo foo hair

[@hcombs0104]

@@gailsirois7175 I'm not crazy about that look, either. It made her look too matronly.

[@juliansinger]

Phil Silvers seems to be paying tribute to the twins in dotting his i's. (14:57) Probably I am imagining it. But since I was enjoying his utter disregard about being guessed, I think I shall decide it is so, and be charmed.

[@loissimmons6558]

+juliansinger Good catch. I was wondering why he would put an umlaut over each "i" when it happens to be one of the vowels that doesn't take an umlaut. Of course with a comedian, you can never tell.

[@kennethlatham3133]

@@loissimmons6558 Actually, the Italian word "aïoli" has an umlaut over the first "I". In fact, my keyboard is obviously equipped with the choice of an "î".

[@loissimmons6558]

@@kennethlatham3133 Thanks. I am only familiar with umlauts in German. This is one of my first lessons in Italian.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

JOCKEY (WINNER OF KENTUCKY DERBY) PICKLE MANUFACTURER (People with no neck always stand out to me). MAKES COLLEGE DIPLOMAS 🤪

[@juliansinger]

It seems entirely possible that Mrs. Neistet was married to a gent named Jacob, who died in 1958. She had one kid with him, and later married someone else named Lee, and had a few more kids, and for some reason died in Los Angeles in 2012. Why Los Angeles? Why indeed.

[@RonGerstein]

Phil Silvers could not wear his glasses in the movie, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," since in ancient Rome, glasses were not invented yet.

[@tomgraves6463]

John Daly was a candidate for early blooper reel. He didn't say it properly. 13:57

[@pjparkwood9277]

There's a colored photograph of a house at 2.32.

[@accomplice55]

Part of an ad from when this show was on the Game Show network.

[@gbrumburgh]

For the first contestant, it looks like Dorothy decided to get rid of her problematic white mask and trade it in for a black mask similar to the other players. She occasionally had difficulty untying her white mask. However, she used the white mask again for mystery guest Phil Silvers.

[@giathomas8844]

I in the nursing home

[@kristabrewer9363]

WOOOW! Both of those contestants only had 5 dollars and John never flipped the cards over for either one of them. Will wonder's never cease!! Can I assume that the producers FINALLY talked to John about flipping over those stupid cards?! since both contestants only had 5 dollars

[@robbob1234]

It's all for show. All contestants were paid $50 regardless of how far they went during the game.

[@augerontgen8240]

Watch the amazing racing horse carry-bag "eating up" the other horses in the final stretch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3m4nJx9o5uoppI

[@ericgordon6975]

remarkable!

[@oc2phish07]

What a truly awful suit Sellers was wearing.

[@margittasaager7238]

Horseracing....the most egotistical and cruelest sport that human beings indulge in. That and Bullfights!!

[@geraldkatz7986]

I can feel your anger. Let the hate flow through you.

[@margittasaager7238]

@@geraldkatz7986 Not hate...... massive dissappointment. Having faith that we learn through mistakes. Sadly, up till this day, history repeats itself.

[@markcornish2519]

Boxing?

[@margittasaager7238]

@@markcornish2519 That's not difficult to answer yourself.

[@rafaelramirez1507]

@@markcornish2519 boxing !? 🤔.... bozo 🤡

[@armyvet4081]

francis could not shut her mouth

[@billcouch8308]

What a cool guy!

[@markxxx21]

What's up with Bishop? He seems to be talking monotone like a robot.

[@robertdiotalevi2882]

Markxxx, that was his whole act, very much like Steven Wright or Jackie Vernon.