You Bet Your Life #54-36 Groucho does an Irish Jig (Secret word 'Smile', May 19, 1955)

[@keithnaylor1981]

The beauty of this show is that for nearly 30 minutes you forget about all your problems!

[@ArcaneWeasel]

The contestants were great but the quick wit of Groucho is unstoppable. What a treasure and delight to watch!!!

[@scottrussell1006]

Groucho proves he was THE BEST every time i watch this show!!!!

[@Eugenecharmer]

The Irish man who sings from the 15th minute of this show is my uncle Sean. So thrilled to see this clip !

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

That's amazing! Is he still alive? I'd love to hear anything he remembers about being on the show.

[@Eugenecharmer]

Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life Yes, he is still alive, and living in Limerick, he is in his mid 80's

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

I hope he has internet access-- I bet he'd get a kick out of seeing this. If not, drop me a private message and I can arrange sending a copy to you. :)

[@gillianandersen251]

Well, your uncle was wonderful! I loved hearing him, and he had this great sense of humor, too! Say hello to him for the Andersen family of America (my husband and sons loved it, too).

[@Michigan25132]

Eugene Cleary He is really great! Adorable too

[@QESPINCETI]

EXCELLENT very entertaining clip. Thank you so much for putting it on KZbin.

[@loriep.9493]

Sean Meaney is my Father and still lives in Limerick Ireland . Thank you for posting this video...it means so very much to me and my family . BTW ..Eugene Cleary is my Cousin.

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

Loretta Pereira Did you see the comment on this video from Eugene Cleary? Mr. Cleary is Sean's uncle. You two must be related!

[@SuperWinterborn]

Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life She seems to have seen it. She wrote he was her cousin. ;)

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

SuperWinterborn I must not have seen the last line. . . .or maybe the comment was edited after the fact to add that note? I don't know.

[@SuperWinterborn]

Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life It was added when I first commented on this video 3 weeks ago. ;)

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

SuperWinterborn Ah, well at least I know then that my reading comprehension skills have not deteriorated *that* badly, then. I didn't want to be too firm about it, but I thought it would have been strange for me to not have noticed that. :)

[@gillianandersen251]

This guy was great! And I absolutely love this show (it always made me smile). But what a lovely singer, and I sure enjoyed hearing him.

[@jeffclement2468]

One of the best episodes. The Irishman especially. So much spirit! 😻

[@danclark3377]

So funny Groucho wearing the Groucho mask! All heart and humor

[@SuperWinterborn]

The Irishman was quite a jolly fellow. Both good at singing, and with quick replys! ;) I wish I had been there. I think the audience had a good time when he was on. :)

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

SuperWinterborn I love his answer when Groucho asks why all Irish singers are tenors: Groucho: "Don't you have any basses in Ireland?" Sean: "Yes, but they're all dead."

[@SuperWinterborn]

Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life Exactly! ;D

[@poetcomic1]

Groucho indirectly brought back a bit of the vaudeville he grew up with: all the irish tenors, novelty dancers etc. he made contestants.

[@martinjones5965]

"How mooch mooney do ya want ta looose" - such a quintessentially Irish sense of humour :) Sean was an absolute delight. His singing was magnificent. He was obviously musically literate, telling band the key. The song he sang was one I listened to as a child on my parent vinyl player. Pure delight to listen to. RIP Sean your joy lives on. He looked really relaxed as he recited all those names ... he must have sung it many times.

[@nyerineu3388]

'will not be able to chew the hard stuff'...Brilliant as always!

[@Michigan25132]

I adore Sean! He's very talented too.

[@abbygirl1993]

OH my....I love him... If I should die before the rest of you, Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone. Nor, when I'm gone, speak in a Sunday voice, But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell. But life goes on, So........ sing as well. Joyce Grenfell

[@davemarr6831]

He was so spontaneous and soooo funny!

[@jimmiedee2315]

Sean Meany, the Irishman, would over the next few years appear as a bit actor in a handful of American TV shows and movies, such as "Medic", "Bat Masterson", and "Wagon Train". He was born in 1927. The lyrics to "Dear Old Donegal" sung by Sean Meany can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Old_Donegal

[@cherylvirden3073]

I love this show. Im looking at repeats ,of repeats! I don't care! I always find something in each one that i missed. So its always enjoyable. This was an exceptionally funny one. Thanks

[@lilyburdis9163]

Sean Meaney is my Father, now deceased I believe and this is the first time I have ever heard his voice and it's amazing and the picture left is my daughter, his granddaughter.

[@chriswhite264]

Lily Burdis I'm sorry to hear about your father. Just from this clip he encapsulated good auld Irish spirit. His memory will live on. Much love from Sligo

[@keithnaylor1981]

After seeing him here you must be feeling so proud. An amazing performance.

[@dotsywotsy18]

I’m confused, you believe he has passed away? Other family members wrote that he lives in Limerick

[@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653]

@@dotsywotsy18 that posting was 6 years ago. This one was 3. He may have died between those times.

[@scottlahti1252]

"Dad dammed up the Greening Branch" - priceless!

[@scottrussell1006]

is that King Henry the 8th you use as your i.d. Scott? Great pic!

[@scottlahti1252]

@@scottrussell1006 It's just me eating some chicken - or the result of a Google Image search on "laughton" "henry" and "gif". That 1933 movie is, of course, a must-see.

[@keithnaylor1981]

The best contestant based show ever seen on tv, mainly due to the brilliance of Groucho Marx. (We missed out on this gem in the UK)

[@Code3forever]

Regardless of who he is the father of or uncle of, he has a great voice.

[@vova47]

As i have had a chance to notice many times before the musicians in the band are very good and can follow anyone as the case of a piano player here.

[@joeambrose3260]

No shit, Sherlock

[@paulfrith1815]

Neal sir groucho no matter what time it is you make me laugh so much it hurts even after all these years. Depression mental health problems watch groucho. Who needs a doctor. 😂

[@papagen00]

Why should industries settle in Michigan? What's wrong with California? "Oh there's nothing wrong with California." That's what you think! 🤣 Love this guy.

[@michaellewter8671]

Loved the occasional times when Groucho danced for whatever reason..

[@al4berry]

The lady with five girls was so cute!

[@joeambrose3260]

Grow up

[@RRW1982]

Her smile alone was prize-winning. And with five little girls!

[@brandonk8948]

​@@joeambrose3260get lost😏

[@AlterMann57]

I know that Groucho was living in California, but he never lost his New York City sarcasm. That's one of the things that made him the best comedian on the planet. He was brilliant, but I've read about his private life and it's sad to know that he suffered so much.

[@eamonhannon1103]

Fantastic entertainment .

[@LaurenceMily-ik9lk]

EXCELLENT ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@moorek1967]

Vaudeville needs to make a comeback.

[@joeambrose3260]

Wel get off your fanny and make it happen Mr. Mouth !

[@AuroraCornejo-w2r]

So much enjoy laughing his so witty

[@JSB1882]

Groucho was so quick - he's like 65 in this show and his dance was like when he danced around in the movies.

[@bobbywimsy6741]

Dave La Violette And Ole Big MacDonald Trumpler can't even rise from the golden tweet bowl without Me-lane-duh's help. Can you imagine da Trump on Groucho"s show? The parodical possibilities are endless with such a figure as T, a veritable, to use a Biblical phrase, "song of the drunkards", or should I say, dotards.

[@scottrussell1006]

He was extraordinary!

[@kengodnavec634]

In bad taste Bob....no one comes here for those post or ideas.

[@jessewolf6806]

Moves like Jagger. Or vice-versa!?!

[@ElmwoodParkHulk]

I knew one of the Gerber babies pictured on the label .

[@joeambrose3260]

I call BS. Post birth certs

[@marymarysmarket3508]

Joe is the neighborhood grouch.

[@bernieweber4663]

Funny how they never aged though. Always the same as the years eent by. Strange.

[@randysills4418]

Joe Ambrose always is the naysayer...

[@robertewing3114]

As great as the singer was Groucho still out-classed him by being more Irish than the Irishman himself - a great day for the Irish!

[@mcctravel]

This is God’s Country .... Only God can afford to live here 😂

[@seriouslyyoujest1771]

57 in 1955. It’s kinda sad to think most of these people are no longer here.

[@barbieblue2213]

Love ❤️ ☘️ Irish wonderful people!Love leprechauns and 🧚‍♂️ fairies too and pot of gold at end of rainbows 🌈and potatoes 🥔and every one of God’s Irish Saints as there are many

[@m42037]

Lol Groucho's right about Michigan getting frostbite i live in Michigan our winter's are horrible 4 months! And Detroit is a cesspool ghetto now

[@searchingforlostatoms7191]

We have heat in our houses now. You'd be amazed

[@NathanStuart-g4i]

Things have changed.

[@daleemr]

Groucho, what a wonderful fellow! So funny! Love him. None like him now and so sad. Today he would be charged with sex crimes for kissing the young girls on his show. We need to go back to this time when men loved women and it was ok.

[@Lisaj4431]

No we don't want to go back, idiot

[@donaldpype7018]

Michigan the Great Lake State. You won't be disappointed

[@earlegavin5931]

Groucho's band always comes through.i hope Groucho use some connections to help Sean out and find work.

[@libertynow4047]

Sean was an actor. Check out IMDB.

[@stevep-iv4pq]

Groucho was sarcastic, brilliant and witty.

[@scottthorning3963]

Boy, has the world changed...And not for the better

[@morgunstyles7253]

5:03 i wish groucho asked him who the was the baby in the picture. (Which my not have been a thing back then)

[@DreamCather147]

Hooray for Captain Spalding. I was eight years at this time!

[@setenzashadowpriest8264]

George introduces Pauline Ruby as "Mrs. Wade Ruby." I wonder if she is the wife of the English Professor "Wade Ruby" from episode 55-39? Their Southern accents certainly match.

[@joeambrose3260]

No one gives a phuck

[@salcampanella6638]

AMEN

[@QESPINCETI]

Mr Gerber had the correct answer... SHAME ON GROUCHO !!! :-)

[@v.salles5643]

Honestly I couldn't understand the name of the song sang by the irish guy,anyone can say the name of the song pls ?

[@bryanogrady3146]

it's 'dear old donegal' ..... also recorded by Bing Crosby

[@Eugenecharmer]

Dear Old Donegal

[@henningandersen9027]

How did the studio-audience select a contestant? Did some of them stand up and say: Choose me, please?

[@papagen00]

dang american girls married young in those days and had 8 or 9 kids.

[@beebeel6285]

Wondering what year this was?

[@louisep5178]

May 19 1955

[@marymarysmarket3508]

On the end of film credits, it says 1961.

[@moonlanding-69]

57...looked 67. Sheree North b.1932 d.2005. She was the second coming of Marilyn Monroe.

[@retrorex]

Greeting Fish Pond, Arkansas is not on the Arkansas map. Neither is North Viole or South Viole. Is she making these towns up, or did they merely cease to exist?

[@scottlahti1252]

retrorex Greenings Lake, North Bayou and South Bayou, I recently discovered after many searches at Google, are all in the area of Camden, Arkansas.

[@moorek1967]

+retrorex Probably unincorporated places.They probably merged at some time since, there is a Viola, Arkansas. With her accent, she pronounced it as what you heard instead of how it is really spelled.

[@scottlahti1252]

+moorek1967 Viola, Arkansas is in Fulton County, along the northern edge of the state just east of center. Greenings Lake, Greenings Lake Dam, and Two Bayous (after North and South, I presume) Church, on the other hand, are near the southern end of the state, in Bragg Township, in Ouachita County, just outside Camden. What some hear as "North Viol" and "South Viol" is the contestant rendering "North Bayou" and "South Bayou" - you can see and hear her rendering the "B" sound. See also: www.google.com/search?num=100&newwindow=1&q=%22greening+fish+pond%22+%22camden%22&oq=%22greening+fish+pond%22+%22camden%22

[@moorek1967]

Scott Lahti Oh I see, that makes sense. I did hear something but couldn't make it out. Thank you for understanding the Arkansas dialect.

[@beebeel6285]

Cat on hot tin roof....1955

[@pfflyer3381]

21:20+, Kobe was the original site of the 2nd atomic bomb. But was charged do to weather.

[@jazzmanchgo]

Too bad we can't really see Groucho's legs and feet while he dances, though . . .

[@joeambrose3260]

Weirdo

[@H76Pro]

they had a 100 and bet a 100 so that was 200 they bet 90 and lost so it should been 110 not a 100. just doing the math :)

[@greglauer]

The rules had it where they won the money they selected for each right answer but a wrong answer cut their money in half instead of losing the bet. I've seen a couple episodes before they took on this format and in one of those, NONE of the contestants qualified to come back for the big question.

[@elgubero]

Andromeda They lose half of their total winnings thus far if they answer wrong, regardless how much the question asked was worth.

[@marymarysmarket3508]

I have watched all the published episodes and Fenneman made numerous mathematical errors

[@mattmexor2882]

@@greglauer Under those rules, if I'm thinking about it right, the second coupled played the game wrong. You should always go down the ladder. So they shouldn't have gone from 70 to 80. If they wanted to do an 80 they should have done it first. The natural human tendency is probably to get more bold after a success and shy away after a failure but that's the exact wrong thing to do in this situation.

[@greglauer]

@@mattmexor2882 Now that I think about it, I believe you're right. That never even crossed my mind. Thanks!

[@ericgoldfarb4870]

47 more like 57

[@amirhanif4928]

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[@searchingforlostatoms7191]

Trouble hilariously became entangled in a time warp because cattle rustlers remained landlocked

[@MikeyJMJ]

Troublesome and the books are very nice to have in my day and a great way of making the most of your life with the most beautiful ones and you have a good time and your life will be an eye opener

[@rgarlinyc]

That Fenneman, really nice guy, but honestly, all the lights are on and no one's home.🤣

[@Walterwhiterocks]

And just how would you know that ? What a dumb comment.

[@al4berry]

He had to be on his toes to keep up with Groucho, who often through a curve in the TV show formatting!

[@joeambrose3260]

And what does your resume look like, Einstein ?

[@eamonhannon1103]

As I recall Fenneman was involved in buying the rights to the show at some stage