It proves that you are an old retard

what people tend to say, sir?

@@Dexiray Ed Sullivan was quite dour on his show and hardly ever cracked a smile. but - he was a superb showman. :)

@@feralblueeI loved that he loved The Beatles when they came on his show for the first time. He really complimented them. Yes I think he was cool.

Around our house we called it a ‘ Slip and Die ‘

Seriously! They SHOULD make a movie about him!

Michael Szczys - no basic coordination skills at your house? 😂 JK.

@@mena94x3 that made me 😁😳😛

My Mother was always ahead of the game, I remember slip n slide, SuperBall, and Frisbee to name a few, hours of fun with fam and friends.

I agree 100 per cent !! :-)

Definitely!

In fact it was a reeellly big shewwwww.

@@esmeephillips5888 - they always say that, but apparently he only wore a size 9 1/2.

i was laughing my head off. didn’t know he had such a sense of humor!😹. Are you in the entertainment business. ‘No! ‘ Daly’s reactions were wonderful.

I’ve seen many of them, and I’ve never seen a bad or poor episode. This was definitely one of the best.

Will Rothfuss I noticed how the panelists were able to frame questions, but you are right, John Payne was an exceptional player!

You are _so_ right. Makes me wish I could see it in color.

The lady has class.

Bennet Cerf was a gentleman's gentleman. May he rest in peace.

I used to get all emotional and cry while watching "Queen for a Day" episodes. What a tear-jerker of a show!

True. He was to the nation what Flo Ziegfeld was to Broadway: the great launcher of talent and mediator of performance, from ballet to animals doing tricks. He normalized the unfamiliar in times when dozens of millions of Americans watched the same thing at the same time- the king of watercooler TV.

He was so funny! Quite the opposite of how I remember him on his variety show (or is that shew?)

Ed could be a real cut- up when he wanted. I vaguely remember a show where he gave a tour of his home and he was a total comedy act. I think there was one of his shows where John Byner or someone like his was imitating him and they got into competition who could do better Ed Sullivan

I agree. He had a personality..I now know. Quite a show.

@@michaelszczys8316 I remember once he had a guest who imitated him. When the act was over, Ed said, "And now...I DO sound like that!"

@@jackkomisar458 Yes, I think I have seen that one. After the impersonator he went into bringing the next act, " And now..." stopped and said " I do sound like that"

Awesome to know and see this

Hey it's Ed Sullivan's episode. That's when you gotta thank the channel operator for posting theeeeeese wonderful shoooooos. Rilly big shoooo.

And, I'm eternally grateful to Ed, for bringing us The Beatles!

I'd never seen Ed Sullivan like this. Admittedly I was just shy of 2 years old when this was televised, but obviously grew up with Ed Sullivan on CBS every Sunday; and I always saw what most of us remember -- a stiff and somewhat stodgy fellow utterly lacking in a sense of humor. This is a catharsis for me and so very grateful to have seen this. I have a new appreciation for the character and humor of this man.

Recalling his low-key persona as host and contrasting it with his playfulness here, I'm wondering if he dialed back his humor deliberately when introducing the guests on his show in order to focus the audience's attention on their talents rather than his. If so, that reveals an innate modesty that is unusual in the television world.

It was and I didn't know it existed until 2018

Your right!! He was made for this!!

Yes intelligence with handsome face

If that mask scares you have some serious mental issues.

Until I read the description of this video I thought the still was of John Mirick AKA the elephant man

@@donaldleroy6502 it looks more like the 1960s movie of Joseph Merrick than the actual man. The real elephant man had a kind gentle face considering his disfigurement. But yeah that mask is grotesque and horrific

don't worry obama got him

Demon

You got that right. I wish I could bring her back to life.

John Miller yes, the way she looked back then, and not look like Ed Sullivan with that mask

CRAVEN MOREHEAD That's what I mean. I wouldn't want her in her 80s. Especially considering she had Alzheimer's. But she was very pretty bad then.

John Miller yes, she was a classy woman with charm, smart, and quite attractive, a trifecta

I have a crush on Arlene from his era

@e M It is not necessary to insult people on here. Commenters are generally polite here. Errors can be corrected without being nasty.

Still a classic Christmas film.🤩🤩🤩

Yes, love that one and also Sun Valley Serenade!

Thank you! I recognized him but couldn't place my finger on where.

34th street

I have a notion to second that emotion !! :-)

Which is wonderfully ironic given his popular reputation for how wooden and inexpressive he was.

He wasn't real thrilled with Payne solving it so fast. 4:55

@@pmccoy8924 to be fair to John Payne he did start them down the right path but he is not the one who sang out Ed Sullivan's name

Dorothy's reaction was more subdued. I wonder if Ed had already taken his mask off by the time she took hers off.

Brendan Richards you are remarkably perceptive! I wondered why Dorothy did not react. I think you provided the answer!

Ya. The Beatles for one ❤️💞💕🌹🌍🌎

@@marshamariner7897 -Da Beatles,Who dat? The Rolling Stones Baby.

Elvis !!!

What was that mask? I’ve seen it worn on The Andy Griffith Show and other media from this time period.

That mask also made an appearance on the Dick Van Dyke show.

He wrote his name on the board

@@brendalovesmariah Although he could have signed in with an "X" while wearing that mask - just a thought 😊

@@brendalovesmariah forgot about the name on the board!

-😂

.and then discarded in land-fills a year later

@@2340Vegas Flush yourself.

I wanted to see Ed Sullivan's appearance. But when when they showed us who Spud was it blew my mind !!! WHAMO WAS THE BEST !!! BUT I MUST SAY ED DID TOO !!!

You're right about that. Plastic manufacturing should have been discontinued 100 years ago. It ramped up in the 1950's and has only gotten worse with people ordering everything online instead of shopping in person.

Or even John Daly. 🤵‍♂️

It's impossible for anyone who wasn't around in 1958 to imagine the intensity of the hula hoop fad that year; over a hundred million were sold in 1958-59. Considering that the prior questioning had established that it could be thought of as, but was not really a sport, the hula hoop was by far the most topical recreational item on the market at the time. If this had been 1962, the same line of questioning might have led to guessing yo-yos.

@@neilmidkiff and what year was the slinky popular?

@@zorroonmilkavitch1840 Wikipedia says that 100 million were sold in the first two years; it's not clear whether it was 1945-46 or 1946-47. Before my time. There was a marketing peak in 1962 when a television ad campaign introduced a musical jingle about it. I remember being given one about that time, but I had thought it was something new then.

@@neilmidkiff sounds like you've got your hand on the pulse of all these good thing sounds like you were either a collector or what?

@@zorroonmilkavitch1840 Mostly just someone who does a bit of online research. I do have pretty good memories of being a kid in the late 50s and into the 60s, too.

I saw Mr. Sullivan once in New York, near the end of his life. He was sitting alone on a park bench in front of the General Motors building on Fifth Avenue. I looked at him and waved. He looked at me and waved back with a big smile on his face. I like to think that I as a pretty young woman brought a moment of joy when he was still alive but not far away from death. He seemed to be grateful to be alive I soon realized not that long afterward.

Had no idea just how much of a sense of humor Ed had. The mask was just perfectly hilarious!

SHOWS that entertainment CAN BE funny A.N.D. wholesome; it does not have to below brow

-If the walls are that thin You best move Out.

If you want another big laugh, run a search for The Best Contestant Ever on What's My Line. It's a hoot!

You should have heard me last night when I came across the dentist episode of carol Burnett show

@@auggie803 I wouldn't dare. There's not enough joy or love so NO ONE WILL STIFLE MY LAUGHTER AND JOY. THOUGH I MUST ADMIT TO SNORTING LIKE A RHINO WHEN I LAUGH.

Check out GOVERNMENT training films from WWII on KZfaq which are quite excellent, with John Payne featured.

stwads Check him out in the wonderful family film “miracle on 34th St.“. It shows all of his best characteristics : Humor, compassion, intelligence.

He was a matinee idol of the 40’s turned TV Star of the 50’s and 60’s he starred in his own Western ...........🦘🐎

@@bravehome4276 That is a wonderful movie. But although he was good on WML, I found him to be the weakest player in that whole film. So many other actors could have played that role better, IMHO, and I never cared for him when he played boxers and such in other films. I found him to be stiff, dull, and not very emotionally expressive. Can't argue with taste.

@stwads - He and Anne Shirley were married in the early 40's but later divorced after having a boy and a girl. She stated that there was some mental abuse on his part. So sad. I did like him in Sun Valley Serenade with Sonja Henne.

Actually, Bennet Cerf may get more.

Yes, I think Arlene was the sharpest, most well-informed of the panelists. It is so very sad to know that she contracted Alzheimer's near the end of her life and passed away in 2002. :(

Don't think so. Dorothy Kilgallen was nothing short of brilliant. Arlene and Bennett were also very, very sharp, but Kilgallen's journalism background makes her edge out the other two. She had the depth and range of knowledge the other two didn't have, which is saying a lot. They don't make panelists like this anymore.

you mean 2001

Dorothy was a snob. Cerf wrote that Dorothy had run-ins with all of them because she took the game seriously. She played to win. You can see that Arlene and Bennett like to win, but they know the winning the game was second to the banter. Dorothy played to win and you can see how she hates it when she misses easy guesses or screws up.

Not if you were a woman or black.

Lars Rye Jeppesen , always one somewhere. You know. Some of them may have enjoyed the times thinking how much progress had been made since their grandparents. sigh. When people bring up "the good ole days", 99% of the time they are referring to the best of the times, not the worst of the times.

@@LarsRyeJeppesen only in the deep south you wouldn't enjoy it If you were black and sexism was never as bad as people make it

Hey, I'm 66, and we used to watch Ed Sullivan every week at home when I was a kid. I was told on more than one occasion that, on my dad's side, we are 3rd cousins to Ed. Never met the man, but that was kind of cool.

Purple Capricorn he was an actor. I remember him as santa's lawyer in the movie " miracle on 34th street"

+dodge96neon dodge96 neon that's where I remember John Payne.....

@@dodge96neon He also did a movie with Betty Grable "Springtime In The Rockies", he did another movie with Maureen O'HARA "Tripoli"

He was also a star in "Sun Valley Serenade" with Glenn Miller, Sonja Henning, and Milton Berle.

"Miracle on 34th Street"!

I would like to have seen Helene Curtis as mystery guest.