The fact that it was Arlene Francis was even funnier!

Historic Home Plans True! 😆

These shows were so fun! Jack Benny, captain kangaroo, every other commercial in those days were for cigarettes. I found ones the flintstones did for Winston right here on you tube. The flintstones sold beer. On shows every other commercial was for smokes and everyone on the shows smoked! So many kids from that era grew up smoking including me. Now I'm on oxygen 24/7 and have had lung cancer. My husband had surgery for lung cancer but passed away from lymphoma. That was terrible the way they peddled those things.

daviddratcliffe1 Best straight man there ever was and he knew that any laugh the people around you get makes you look good too. Contrasts that to the later stage hog egoist comics that came along.

Groucho used words better than any other comedian; Jack used silence far better than 90% of comedians can use words.

My opinion. That bit was planned.

We watched jack benny all the time good clean show

The Master of Pregnant Pauses.

I hope it was

Just your average case of the live TV giggles. 😁

That surprised me from Arlene Francis my grandmother I never met.

vxenon67 are you calling Captain Kangaroo an s.o.b?

Lastman Standing ‘

When it first came out I only got the networks and cw it cost $22

Based on stories I've heard about Dish's 'Iron Fist' treatment of customers and employees alike, you'd think a better name for them would be 'Douche TV'!!

@@adamantman3200 I never bit because I have seen it go out at bars that have it when a storm came. I said " No Thanks ! "

@@dagnabbit6187 "DAGNABBIT" is one of my favorite words. I use it all the time, dagnabbit!

are you complaining?

And that true tobacco taste!

Actually most of this was on tape.

Maybe it was his girlfriend, lol!

ruff! ruff!

Mrs. Clean.

Mr. Clean and jerk

ferociousgumby I can't find the song on KZfaq

Thank you. She was splendid. I wish I knew who all the others were.

Heru- deshet I don't think it's Betty White.

No it’s not

Bsrbara Britton of Mr. and Mrs. North fame, I think, with a different hairstyle than usual. That's her voice, though.

Somebody posted that clip as part of a blooper reel, and I asked that same question. Someone answered back that it was Kay Medford.

Neither did he!

Robert Haworth Like when Captain Ron Tracy kicked his butt 3 times in "The Omega Glory"!

These are the original TV bloopers long before Dick Clark and few ever saw them. People really like the stars they grew up watching and you're probably too young to remember most of these people. I love 'em because I'm a geezer and they make me feel like, well, a geezer.

DAVID BADGLEY - pegbars is right - a lot of these are just gag reels, not actual bloopers. Eg. the surprise stripping.

@@Domarius64 Honestly, I thought the Jack-Benny-and-the-stripper clip might have been something real. Notice how he had two guys just offstage with a wheeled piece of wallboard they could haul out as a "screen?" That must have been planned in advance. But the shot with the boobs? That never could have aired, not even by accident. That took forethought, and had it aired it would have been a career-killer for anyone involved.

Very enjoyable in the beginning when even bloopers were cute, people laughing at themselves. Then the language became foul as well as the actors angry and crude and no longer funny or enjoyable to watch.

@@pedmst Too reminiscent of today. 😝😢👎👎

propriety was more important then

People in the 50s were so uptight?! LOL. You can say this with a straight face while more and more "uptight" people nowadays are getting offended or upset about any little thing? Political correctness has made the majority into uptight gits.

When I was a kid in the 50s you couldn't say poopie out loud in mixed company, let alone on t.v., and that's a fact. Reactions to things even a little off-color on television were straight out of the Victorian era. So those shows are humorous to look back on. Today's p.c. culture is more profane by a magnitude of ten, and people are difficult to shock. You can be as filthy or provocative as you want as long as you don't puncture politically sacred cows. The results of doing that at present are scary, not funny. You can lose your job or your bank account.

Did the postmaster general really say that.

"They Both should"

@captmitty Some think Mark Twain did, but Ben was first.

@captmitty Look it up for yourself...

@captmitty Look "Dummy" I will not debate this with a person who has not studied enough to understand the quote. “Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.” ― Thomas Jefferson

im1who84u squeezing bosoms?

0.16 is even funnier. Not sure that a Christian right corresponds to a Jewish practice.

He probably meant a Christian "rite", but it's not, it's a Jewish one.

that's what I thought. I'm from Oklahoma. they're US citizens.

It shouldn't have gone over then.

Just in case no one got back to you by now: Tom Terrific's dog was Mighty Manfred.

And look at you now!

Maybe, maybe not. The Flintstones was geared largely towards adults, even though it was animated.

fonso1030 So that was Arlene Francis at 02:24 the arpege girl? My eyes are not good, and the video is unclear, but that voice stood alone. Funny how some stand out...with a far nicer tone than most...and her voice certainly did stand out.

jUSTpLAINbRAD that’s her, and yes, I agree, everything about Arlene stood out, she was a class act!

Gerry Nightingale May is absolutely hilarious in the Woody Allen film Small Time Crooks.

Nichols directed The Graduate, Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood, Biloxi Blues, Working Girl, The Birdcage, and Primary Colors. May directed The Heartbreak Kid and (ahem) Ishtar, and wrote Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Tootsie and Labyrinth.

@@dadoctah *Thanks, 'Captain Obvious'*

hebneh don’t be one of those guys

Yes, should have used a screwdriver. Might have saved some embarrassment.

It appeared to be a Ring Nail (the ridges keep it from wiggling loose).

noisepuppet I was watching this, and as soon as I saw 14:57 to 15:40 I checked to see if this was your video.

Fancy seeing you here! Big fan of your work by the way.

Donna Manning 😂😂

The clip was fitness show hostess Debbie Drake. The song was an audio clip of Mr. Greenjeans from Captain Kangaroo singing a song entitled "Spread Your Tail".

Arlene Francis was on every show she could get on! Got tired of seeing her!

Green Man I didn’t get it either!

Yeah, what the f....k?!

He was breaking up with laughter during the commercial.

I think Linkletter began to realize the patter was a little silly and tongue-twisting as written, found it ever-funnier, figured he might as well milk it and make the ad that much more memorable.

From a woman yet!

Oh my god!!!

@Songs Mirth- It's so sad how far this has gone these days. I'm glad my parents did not cuss. The only time I ever heard my mother use the F- word was when she was getting dementia, and heard my sister''s boyfriend use it on the phone when she was talking to my sister. Then she repeated it to me. Yipes !

@Songs Mirth I grew up in Bible Belt South Suburbia and you heard Damn but not GD. Mothers usually said shit fire ! It was get the hell out of here . That was about it . Beat the snot out of you was acceptable among kids but kids were not allowed to curse and would metaphorically or literally get that proverbial bar of soap if they did. Candy Ass for a wimp was used by the men. It disappeared but made a comeback in the 21 Century. Still there was nastiness like farting and laughing at it and society got coarsened but I remember reading a Stephen King story called The Body which was made into a movie Stand By Me . I liked both but the excessive swearing from that time period -------- I actually found King's rendering of the dialogue from that era ( mid to late 50s) to be apocryphal because, yes, there were holy terror bullies back then but nobody swore like that !

@@deltatango5765 : You're romanticizing about the 50s/60s. Playboy mag started in the 50s and the women's lib movement started in the 60s. Those decades weren't very innocent.

robert landoni jr Fraudian Slip maybe, maybe not!

That s actually not Arlene Francis but Betsy Somethingorother....she was also on candid camera for a time

@rob glinka You are referring to Betsy Palmer there on the “I’ve Got A Secret” clip. They are referring to Arlene Francis in the Arpege perfume commercial clip where she shockingly says s*it.

She’s so elegant and sexy then... “SHIT!” Lol Pretty surprised you see her like that.

@@friendofdorothy9376, Betsy Palmer was unique. I think she died recently.

No surprise. Her first movie role was in "Murders in the Rue Morgue", where she played a character billed only as "woman of the street".