Hear hear

Really. 😞 💔

I was a child in 1963 and I can't believe how far our culture has fallen.

This Lovely Goofball Has/Had a WONDERFUL, if Not GORGEOUS Cameo in the Equally Wonderful Wild Wild West tv show

The more I see Phyllis the more I like her.. Her smile and candid nature stole my heart.

He was a one-of-a-kind comic genius. Even more beloved in Britain than the U.S.

Kirk Barkley Well I'm from Britain and he's irritating the hell out of me here.

Dave Sanderson Most likely, Danny could have Taken your misery and transformed you, to laughing. He was one of a kind.

Me too.

You’d just feel more fed up with what is happening in our country today. Be grateful 😊

"Encomium" became a bit of a running gag on You Bet Your Life for a few weeks when Groucho mispronounced in it in this show: You Bet Your Life #53-23 Spunky old lady vs. Groucho (Secret word 'Clock', Feb 18, 1954)

Joe Postove You can tell by the audience's reception how much Danny Kaye was loved. I loved him too and miss him to this day!

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juan aguirre Well said. ???

juan aguirre Perhaps you meant 8jkdr< :::lkloit2, huh?

He was my Great Grandfather.

@@joshuafehr301 --How interesting! Did you find this video by accident, or did you and the whole family know about it beforehand? I'd love to hear your story! :D

Thanks for sharing!

Danny Kaye was not a leading man.

Thank you for the back story!!

As can be seen in another episode, the chalkboard isn't a board at all, but a scroll that is rolled upward after each contestant to reveal a "clean" portion for the next contestant. I presume the scroll was fully cleaned before the airing of the next episode. Just imagine if they had retained the scroll and just affixed a new one each week. With all those celebrity signatures, the things would be worth millions.

It made me think of Chico Marx in "Duck Soup" misunderstanding the word and saying "I'll take some ... A nice, cold glass eliminate."

+Neil Midkiff Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot. But don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

RosieMoonshine I'd like to raid her closet.

Me too

Me too. I bet she was so much fun to hang with...

It would not be tea.....lol...

They are difficult to grow in most places. My home town of Suffern is one of the few exceptions. Most people have heard of Suffern succotash, I'm sure. Otherwise, the best way to get succotash to thrive is by grafting one of the shoots of an existing plant onto a tofu bush.

I'm now 62 years and I've yet to encounter a succotash anywhere, any time. If I ever met one, I didn't recognize it.

Pay no attention to the man behind behind the curtain. So glad you're enjoying the shows. :)

I can't believe I'm less senile than I was last year, but my father in law kept Hadicol behind the bar, not Geritol. Hadicol was another popular health tonic of the time, with an especially high ethanol content. Forgive me, Geritol, it's not easy to put ethanol into tablet form.

Phyllis sounded a little ditzy, but actually she was smart and good at this game.

You’re not getting older, you’re getting better.

He came across as a major league jerk in his young days

I don't associate prestige with that egomaniac

Bennett was really into elimination.

Never watched Sylvester the Cat?

Lois Simmons That succotash, was suffering.

I had to google it to get the joke (I’m British) 🤣

When they publicly announce Dorothy was in the hospital for this and that... It was usually to dry out from her alcohol addiction.

Yes! I've often wondered about this myself, not to mention how rarely he mispronounces any of the names. My guess is that he went over the contestants' names carefully before every show so he didn't really need to rely on reading what they scribbled. Thinking about the times he offers all kinds of information about the contestants at the end of a round (rather than just letting the contestants speak for themselves, as he so rarely did), he must have had regular briefing sessions with the producers beforehand.

What's My Line? True...I have seen him kinda stumble on the names a few times though so it makes me wonder. Seems like I remember him asking, "Hmmmm....is it {such and such}?" before, though don't ask me what episode that was. Lol

DebbieFaubion Two possible explanations I can see for that which wouldn't contradict his rehearsing the names beforehand: (1) he was so smooth at his job, he wanted to create the *impression* of reading the names as they were written, even though he really knew the info independently already. So on that basis, he would slowly pronounce the syllables as they were written out to make it feel real for the audience. (2) despite this, sometimes he probably just stumbled, either misspeaking, or momentarily not remembering how to pronounce a name, because he was human. But I don't think he was really reading the names on the spot. There are just too many instances where the names really are written indecipherably or could be pronounced so many different ways but John almost always gets it right the first time. One show I watched recently, the contestant signed in using Japanese characters and John *still* read and pronounced it right on the first try! I think it was just for show. It's similar, on a much smaller scale, to how Groucho could make fully pre-scripted jokes on You Bet Your Life sound like purely ad lib material.

DebbieFaubion really? You don't think he knows who's coming on the show??

Because he has them on the cards in front of him on the desk.

Thank you-- I didn't even realize! KZfaq doesn't make it easy to see a count of how many videos have been posted publicly. When you're logged in as a channel owner, you can only see easily how many videos are uploaded in total, including all the ones uploaded in advanced and scheduled to be made public later. The only way I know of to check on how many videos are public is to log out of the account and see what the page looks like. There have been a couple of folks in particular who have been staggeringly generous in sharing their collections just to help out with this effort, but. . . sometimes I'm asked not to make any public acknowledgement, or believe me, I'd be giving to be credit where it's so due! ;)

The general view is that once the niceties has been observed they thought it best not to bring her up. There was suspicion surrounding her death and the murky world of the mob could have tainted the show.

@@gilliankew this episode is from March 1963. Dorothy was still alive and so was President Kennedy.

"Encomium" is the word in question. It is defined as, "A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly".

He is a jerk.

I was wondering if it was in reference To another time he was the mystery guest

danny kaye signed in as AH in addition to his own name...

I yelled that out too---just as if it might change something.

I was wondering whether it was Johnny's first appearance since taking over "Tonight". Glad to see him back. And Phyllis too, who always brings a youthful spark to the show.

Reluctant Dragon I think I may have made a comment a while back to the effect that I didn't think there were any more WML shows with Carson after he took over the Tonight Show, but at the time I didn't have this episode. I think I was foolishly only looking at the list of shows I actually had copies of at the time.

What's My Line? This show is Johnny Carson's last appearance on WML. And, Reluctant Dragon, it is indeed the first and only time he appeared after taking over the Tonight Show.

Joe Postove - Poor assumption, I assure you it wasn't about the money. If you know a little about Johnny Carson in his early years, including up to the time of this airing, you will know that Johnny was pretty insecure about his popularity and notoriety, even though he had landed the Tonight Show gig. Getting a spot on the WML panel was certainly considered prestigious at the time, and Johnny wasn't about to pass up the opportunity to boost his image. Definitely not about the bucks.

And just recently, someone else was speculating that WML must have had someone on staff just to do wolf whistles. He was certain he could tell it was the same person doing the whistles in every show.

Ha!

H Smith Pardon? I have no idea at this point what video I made this comment on, but I completely agree with you as to John going over the names in advance, and made the exact same point as you, citing the cases where he "read" a name off the blackboard that was written out in Japanese or Chinese. I just don't see the connection here to the point Joe was making about the wolf whistling. :)

H Smith Oh, I've done that before. It can happen to anyone, don't sweat it!

In an early episode, John Daley did stop to tell the audience not to whistle because it played havoc with the sound levels. I guess he gave up after that!

"Meet" is a 17th century word with the meaning today of "suitable". To mention a well-known example that illustrates the meaning, the King James Version of the Bible (1611) describes Eve as a "help meet" for Adam, meaning suitable for him. "Meet and proper" means that a thing is fitting, appropriate, etc. "Meet and proper" is still used in conversation on occasion (I know the expression from having heard it in conversation), but it is especially used in the legal system, I gather. John Daly displays some familiarity with the language of the courts. In the Woody Allen mystery guest appearance, to avoid giving away too much information at one point, Daly follows his brief and cryptic response with the statement, "beyond that, 'the deponent sayeth not,'" which is legal language.

+Joe Postove He was probably an Episcopalian. The old Prayer Book contained the congregational response, "It is meet and right so to do," as a part of the Eucharistic Prayer's "sursum corda." Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. Cong: It is meet and right so to do. Priest: It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty...etc.

" ... he is an Episcopalian ..." (The Warren County Observer, November 18, 1960, in an article reprinted from The New York Times)

Was it missing due to the assembly of the 25th anniversary special? If it was, was the missing footage shown during said 25th anniversary special?

Possibly another one of the bits lost due to the editing of these films for the WML at 25 special.

What's My Line? If you get the special, and the missing footage is there, I would love to see a version of this episode with the missing footage put back in.

***** We must have posted our replies at the exact same time, Vahan. I've been provided a copy of the WML at 25 special and I've found that a lot of the missing bits I expected to see aren't there. I think what must have happened is that a lot of bits were excised for possible use in the special, but ultimately weren't used after all in the final cut (they had a lot of trouble narrowing down the clips from 17 years of shows). I think some of these bits that may have been cast aside from the special close to airing never got spliced back into the original films, and since they weren't used in the special, they're presumably gone forever. Just speculating, though.

Is the 25th anniversary online? Are you able to post it. I haven't seen it since it aired.

I'm 56. 😀😀

Agree...obnoxious.

No he doesn't actually.

"Handsome" used to be a term meaning "good looking" - it was used on a few old time tv shows.

OMG get over your self. Once he opened his trap they would have known who he was. He was there to shill for his upcoming set at the Zeigfield had a good time playing the crowd .Sometimes you purists just do not get it. The show (especially the mystery guest) was more for the entertainment value. Danny's entrance was perhaps the best ever.

you've been told, bobby !

See his 1961 appearance and that’ll answer the question for you

THEN GO THE FUCK TO HELL YOU WORTHLESS PIECEC OF SHIT! WHO CARES WHAT AN IDIOT LIKE YOU THINKS IF YOU CAN ONLY INSULT SOMEONE LIKE DANNY KAYE WITHOUT GIVING S REASON WHY. COVID WAS MADE FOR MISCREANTS LIKE YOU.

poor davey... poor, poor davey.

@@johnpickford4222 John, John what's wrong? Get your booster.

I agree. He was an obnoxious egomaniac.