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​@@loissimmons6558Needed Mel Blanc to do their great "Si" routine.

David Hyde Pierce played Tony Randall in Frasier for a decade and more. D.H.P. even got to DO Tony Randall in 'Down With Love' a rather mean spirited spoof of the Doris Day-Rock Hudson movies and he was the only good thing in the movie.

True. ❤️

The world? You went for the whole ball of wax! LOL

Actually Jack Benny wasn't really funny. Not even for his generation.

​@@yourgoddidntcreatetheuniverse F A K E N E W S from a brainless simpleton.

The SOCIETY of the WORLD has forgotten good wholesome entertainment!!! Morals and values are also gone!

Smart move!👍

You wouldn't think Jack Benny needed a big bodyguard. Who in their right mind would need to be physically restrained around Benny? Or have I missed something?

@@davidsanderson5918 There are always kooks out there who might want to harm a celebrity for any number of reasons.

Yes looks 45 to me, what a star

Thank you, Mr. Wikipedia

@@winonafrog looks 39 to me 😉

spactick I'm a big stand-up comedy fan from England but have to be honest I've not seen one routine of Benny nor could I tell you one joke of his! Billy Connolly would have to be the greatest of all-time for me.

@@davidsanderson5918 Benny was not 'that' type of comic. His humor was in his timing and personal delivery of lines. I think anyone who lived during that era from the 1930's thru 1970's would agree that Jack Benny was an absolute genius at making the every day things in life ( eating food, reading the paper, walking etc;) histarical. He was successful at radio, TV, movies etc; no one was like him. I loved him dearly as did millions of others. I'm smiling as I type this.

@@davidsanderson5918 Tony Hancock was a fan of Jack Benny as was Benny Hill. There were several prominent British comedians of the era who were influenced by or fond of Benny. And spactick is right: Benny wasn't a stand-up comedian: he did "situational" humor, where a situation or series of events become funny as well as his reactions to the same. He was famous for jokes that built up over multiple shows or even over years once you were familiar with Benny's character and the characters of his supporting cast on his program.

Well !

@@julianhermanubis6800 thanks for agreeing with me Julian, few 'Tubers' do :) My point as well is the fact that he was successful in vaudeville, radio, stand-up, film and TV , and ( I should put that in capitals) AND if you look at his routines (radio, TV etc;) they're still funny, decades later. THAT is the mark of true greatness. If there was a Mt. Rushmore for comics of the 20th century? Jack Benny's mug would most definitely be there

Maureen Sibley Handsome to women, but not to men. Just looks ordinarily European.

Yes indeed and I often watch episodes at night is a meditative stress reliever.

Pshaw! He was only 39, fool! ;)

Exactly in 1970 (to 1974) with his wonderful portrayal of the fussbudget, clean-maniacal Felix Ungar, against his roomie Jack Klugman, portraying the opposite personality Oscar Madison.

He used to live at Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood

Oh please!!!....he's a complete ass!!

Seems like a prick to me

Jack Benny is not forgotten, but I bet Vince Edwards is by anyone younger than I am--78. He died of pancreatic cancer in 1996 at 67 after a lifetime addiction to gambling.

@@rogerpropes7129 you're right.

You are absolutely right.

Yes they were Jewish but the entertainment industry has historically favored Jewish people over the many, many Gentiles with talent.

Seinfeld Larry David & Garry Schandling ring a bell

An understatement!

I had a childhood book like that, with the pages cut into thirds, showing various animals. It was so much fun to see the many combinations.

It was Bennett Cerf who guessed the mystery guest who was Jack Benny back in 1959

I just looked up the name of the other mystery guest, because I'd never heard of him, and it said, he died of pancreatic cancer. That's strange that both mystery guests on the same night died the same way!

​@@AmbienceWorldBen Casey, TV doctor

Vincent Fitzpatrick You can still listen to Benny on old time radio apps. I have his old radio shows on my tablet.

+SaveThe TPC No further appearances, but he had been on 2/8/53 and 6/21/59.

No one on a game show today would even know who Jack Benny was, for that matter.

Johan Bengtsson You're right. Like when they choose the "light version" in quiz shows, by easily mixing Latin and Greek names of the Ancient Gods together.

What's My Line? Hey, I'm from the "current generation" and I can recognize Jack Benny better than I can recognize any of today's celebrities. (My parents raised me on "classic" tv shows and movies -- and tbh that's what I still prefer to watch.) Thanks for uploading the videos, I've never seen this game show before but I love seeing all the stars come on and try to keep their identities secret.

Mary Hoffman Always nice to read of younger people who are aware of the classics. But you must know you're the exception. :) Glad to see you discovered WML via these videos.

What's My Line? Some young people might admit to it some might not. Too me there is no shame!

Jack Benny to Giselle Mackenzie when playing the duet: Don't mess with me sister... Hilarious!

+Johan Bengtsson Eagle eye. Congrats !!! Now it may be called the hawk eye... Cheers, anyway !!!

The panel didn't really get a chance to guess his "line." Once they had figured out who he was, shouldn't John have stepped in and said, "Now you still have to tell us what "line" our guest is representing in this game," or something like that? Instead, Jack tells them at 8:14. They might have gotten it right away, but they might not have, and either way, the guessing would likely have brought more laughs. On the other hand, Jack's own explanations were pretty funny anyway. :)

That's because no one knew Steve Allen sold motorcycles. Everyone knew Jack Benny played the violin.

+SaveThe TPC Absolutely, you are correct in your assertion!

John Paradise Thank you, Mr. Daly! ;)

They liked it even better a few years later, according to this hit song from a certain Broadway show: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKypYNyrz5aWdnk.html

+Joe Postove Not the "Daily News", the "Sunday News". It was for research for that night's program with the famous Coloroto section plus the entertainment section to keep up with what was happening in the city. Besides, the "Times" didn't have comic strips. Where else could you catch up on "Dick Tracy", "Little Orphan Annie", "Brenda Starr, Star Reporter", "Dondi", "Winnie Winkle", "Smilin' Jack", "Moon Mullins", "Smokey Stover", "Gasoline Alley", "Rick O'Shay", "On Stage", "Terry and the Pirates", "Smitty", and comic strips like "Li'l Abner" that came over to the "News" as other NYC papers folded.

He had actually been in the movies and on TV for about 10 years when he played an Army sergeant (uncredited) in "The Three Faces of Eve" in 1957. His first movie role was an uncredited part in "Dark Passage" in 1947, as a cop in a tollbooth. His next movie role was credited, as Tommy Tomkins in "Mister Universe" in 1951. Other credited movie parts along the way include roles in "Sailor Beware," "Hiawatha," "Rogue Cop," "Cell 2455, Death Row," "The Night Holds Terror," "Serenade," "The Killing," "Hit And Run, "The Hired Gun" - and, after "The Three Faces of Eve" but before he hit it big in BEN CASEY, "Ride Out For Revenge," "Island Women," "Murder By Contract," "City of Fear," "The Scavengers," "Too Late Blues," and "The Outsider." He also performed on a number of TV drama-anthology shows in the 1950s, including FIRESIDE THEATRE, THE FORD TELEVISION THEATRE, CELEBRITY PLAYHOUSE, THE 20TH CENTURY-FOX HOUR, GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER, STUDIO 57, and ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS ("The Young One," in 1957). After BEN CASEY, he acted in movies and TV steadily over the years, and he did two more TV series: first, as Dr. Matt Lincoln, a psychiatrist, on the short-lived ABC series MATT LINCOLN (only 16 episodes in the 1970-71 season); and then as the voice of Jake Rockwell for the 1986 animated Warner Bros. series CENTURIONS.

It was "Run for Your Life". Both BC and SL were cancelled that year, while RFYL went on to a 3 year run.

And when it went into syndication it became "Re-run for Your Life".

SO WHY BRING "BOLLYWOOD" UP IF THE WORD WAS NOT USED BEFORE 1990?

The movie opened in August so we sure are going to hear a lot of it until then...

America worshiping youth. We were all part of the Pepsi generation ... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/orechdNnqpe9dps.html

Don't they always have those when the panel is blindfolded?

+ToddSF 94109 Actually the horsecollar grille (to use the more polite comparison) was used only on the 1958-59 Edsels. The 1960 model, of which there were damn' few built, used a blatant ripoff of the 1959 Pontiac's split grille, grafted onto a barely-customized 1960 Ford body.

"The Avengers" aired in that timeslot (Monday 10 PM ET on ABC); its first run in the U.S. It would continue in various slots until 1969.

June 5, 1966

How about the young Frank Sinatra in the early 1940s? The teen girls certainly screamed and swooned over him.

+Neil Midkiff And before Sinatra, Rudy Vallee in the late 20's and early 30's.

I think he was 80 when he passed away. He was the master of dead pan humor.

Although Dorothy and Arlene both sat in the first position, I see it more as Dorothy's position. Just as the third position seemed to fit Arlene (right next to Bennett, who shared great chemistry. ) And this is coming from someone who hasn't watched too many post-Dorothy episodes... I wonder if Arlene had a preference...

Arlene needed no introduction.

And she was certainly delightful.

I agree. The word "delightful" was practically like a trademark for Arlene.

This show was one of the last remnants of old-fashioned formality on TV. Not as formal as dinner at the White House or conducting a symphony orchestra, for which "white tie" formal wear including a tail coat would be appropriate. But when this series started in 1950, "black tie" with a dinner jacket (tuxedo) was the rule. Bennett Cerf mentioned in an oral history that soon he and John realized that wearing a black bow tie and a dark suit gave the same effect on TV: more "dressed up" than wearing a long tie. Other Goodson & Todman game shows were less formal: for instance, Garry Moore on "I've Got a Secret" sometimes wore bow ties, sometimes long ties, usually not black, usually with lighter colored suits.

The only time I recall the men wearing straight ties was for the first show following Dorothy's death.

+Jake Mabe Positive. What's more- she is charming and hot !!!!

+Jake Mabe She married a man 19 years her senior,(smart guy!) the magical lyricist, Adolph Green.

She cackles incessantly and is far too annoying. I'm so thankful she's not a regular. Every episode she's on, I find myself fast forwarding to escape her.

He was, in fact, an excellent violinist.

Not.

+sue t I watched it to study her. I think it was nerves on her part that made her seem "annoying".

sue t - She was probably nervous (I sure would be). To me she seemed lovely and rather elegant.

Yes every answer from her sounded misleading (nerves) and then John would use that same odd voice with all those tentative answers. It was quite annoying in a fun way

God yeah I'm glad someone else picked up on that.

On the other hand, Jack Benny received a humongous ovation, as few others would, and I thought he hardly disguised his extremely well known voice.

Bennett Cerf knew a lot of celebrities very well, and he had quite an ear for picking out the real voices when they tried to disguise them. And as was alluded to during this show, they often had an idea who the mystery guest was ahead of time knowing who was in New York to promote premieres and live appearances. I don't think they took the game as seriously for these segments and let the questioning continue for a little regardless.

There was the famous one where Steve Allen guessed "Pretzel bender" as the occupation of one contestant. He was wrong. But the following contestant WAS a pretzel bender. He clearly had to have known.

DuneMountainTrip I felt that too. ;-)

Totally NOT annoying.

Why, because they spoke proper English? You've said more about yourself than about them.