Jay Leno's reboot stunk!I watched the first show,he goaded the players into saying the secret word.

Very bright and self-possessed kid. Do you know anything about his later life?

@@davidhogan7020 He was a good athlete-quarterback on our Pop Warner team, an excellent "A" student all through graduation. I lost touch with him as an adult, but spoke briefly with him a few years ago--don't know what he's up to these days. Still a really good guy.

@@stevenairheart4966 Steven, thanks for taking the time to answer. Sounds as if Rusty had (has) a lot going for him.

I love this! He was great! I've never seen anything quite like this before and he is such a charming young man.

Wish we could get the kids now to get away from video games and outside spinning tops. (Somebody would probably find something unsafe about it)

Who are you texting about ??????

I remember Dayton Allen had done his Groucho impersonation in a Terrytoon Heckle & Jeckle theatrical cartoon in the late 40s or early 50s. In this IGAS appearance, I agee he had the quick wit of Groucho and got plenty of laughs. The panel certainly did detect a difference in the vocal qualities. It's close to the original Groucho though.

Excellent observations and points here, Neil. I think that if...for example, Dayton Allen was doing a stand-up routine on a variety show, and he did his Groucho along with other voices, then I think that his impersonation would have been outstanding. There would be nothing to compare it to. But the panel and we, the audience were too close to it, and had been hearing the "real" Groucho just before this ploy; so then Dayton's Groucho really sounded different...higher pitched and faster-paced than the real Groucho. In retrospect, if Garry would have "framed" it to the panel, perhaps by telling them that Groucho is doing an audio experiment, testing different microphones or some such ruse; then I think it would have thrown them off enough. I think that even Frank Ferrante, who is superb and probably does the best Groucho (I have seen him LIVE); even he would still not 100% fool the panel, because there is always a slight difference. Let's face it...here is only one Groucho! Anyway, this was still fun. Excellent point about Dayton's quickness in ad lobbing character as Groucho. He had a lot of experience also doing several characters on Howdy Doody. Anyway, TV was so different then!

Groucho has his own rules