Right????? HAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!

The semi Brit accent almost worked but once you sit on the panel, they'll sniff you out. When Sean Connery was on, he hilariously used a small boy's voice. It really should BE a mystery guest.

Update: As of May 8, 2021, Mort is still alive at age 93.

@@mikejschin Not anymore...😪

@@PaulTesta So sad to hear that, Paul. I wasn't aware until seeing your response that he passed away 26 October 2021. I saw no news reports about it. RIP, Mort.

Death reported in NYTimes .

he croaked

Mary Hoffman To be fair his disguise, despite being a strange accent, had his usual intonations and distinctive throat tone about it. He has such a strong projective voice which is pretty unmistakeable.

I’ve only ever seen him on this. His fake voice seemed very different to me, but the panel will also have seen him playing parts in different accents or just known him joking around off camera.

Tony is my all time favorite mystery guest. All three times he was hilarious.

To see the extent of the man's remarkable talents, watch "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao", in which he has 7 speaking parts. You'll be glad you did.

Always.

Joan Brigid race car driver? Auto mechanic? I agree, strange question and based on what clue?

The only grease-covered occupation I can think of would be Channel swimmer, but it was already established that it was not done in the water.

Didn't females who used snakes in their stage act get greased up for it once upon a time?

It was clear by that stage that she did a rather physical job that was unusual for a woman, and in which she could get injuries. I took him to mean that she was something like a mechanic.

The weirdest question I ever heard on this show was when Dorothy asked someone, do you sleep on velvet sheets?

poetcomic1 Yeah spotted it.

I was wondering what on earth that could be! xD

I thought she did that herself. 😎

He cheated.

Dorothy had some ESP too.

@@peternagy-im4be There has never been any proof of that whatsoever.

@@accomplice55 OK have a great day y'all!!

He was closest to the sign in board and probably had extra sharp ears, as well as scent. They were also all well-informed about who was in town, who was "seasonal" such as ball players, etc. ESP ought to be called "All Senses alert."

David Soulier I

Steve Allen appeared far more than Robert Q. Lewis as a guest panelist.

And the elegant slight bow he makes. Classic.

@@Noone58319 And the little swerve when he gets behind his chair!

Cerf.

Evidently you don’t understand the point of the game. It’s for entertainment. If it were to keep the guest a secret then they wouldn’t have them in the studio at all!

That reminded me of Mary Livingstone's famous malapropism "chis sweeze sandwich" from the old Jack Benny Show.

I think they had Tony Randall from the very start. He cannot disguise THAT voice!

I don't like bullfighting. It's so unfair to the bull

i was howling when she said that XDDDDDD

@@MrJoeybabe25 can you send a link to that?? it sounds hilarious!!

Between computer cost and monthly ISP bill, each email might cost > 4 cents but it still beats snail mail. These are the good days.

@@igkoigko9950 . Mostly I agree, except for the few I work with that never learned to properly address an envelope. I very much like the quick response though.

Yes, but on the other hand, longer answers can often be more fun. (Obvious example being Debbie Reynolds, but I think Tony here also was aiming more for fun than winning.)

@@RikardPeterson I agree. Tony unless he is totally tone deaf (and opera lovers such as he are not) had to know he was virtually giving it away, for fun. Maybe not, though.

The mystery guests working in show business would have understood that the point of the game was entertainment, not whether or not they beat the panel.

I think some people can set their accounts so people can't reply to them. I think I came across an option like that when I was fooling with the googleplus/youtube settings.

Stephanie McCoy Could be, but if this is the same guy who's been commenting on my You Bet Your Life channel, this is the first time one of his comments was posted in such a way as to not be able to respond in any form, on KZfaq or on Google+. And what on earth is the point of a setting to make it so no one can respond to you? Is this something people actually want??? ;)

What's My Line? Idk, I like to make sarcastic comments time to time that I wish people couldn't respond to, but that's about it lol. The whole comment thing is rather buggy. It might because his profile is private maybe :o? i think not, nvm lol

Stephanie McCoy Don't try to explain it. It's Chinatown, Jake. ;)

@@WhatsMyLine Yes, so that they can have the last word.

Everyone knows all that, but the forty-nine star flag would have been a nice souvenir and now a bit valuable. That said, it’s bizarre of any family to specifically have a flag.

@@icturner23 Bullsh*t. It's very common.

That claim of his makes no sense.

He should have used a falsetto voice, as should all mystery guests. Tony Randall also could never bring himself to maul the English language as do so many of us Americans, dropping "g"s and saying "yeah" a lot.

+Katarzyna Kopeć Funny line!

They certainly seemed less surprised by it than I expected.

Or governors

Or bartenders.

Bennett is a charmer.

He played a "prissy" role with Jack Klugman in "The Odd Couple," but that was just a role.

We were better people then. She was wonderful.

or female men's barbers

"Goodbye, you're very shy tonight, Mort."

TanRu Nomad Thank you!

Neil Midkiff But Daly doesn't talk about a contestant's line 'after' thry leave the stage. Also it would've drawn attention to his stance on it even more if he delivered it facing the camera before announcing the next guest.

When he made that remark, I first assumed he was placing himself in the ring rather than the audience. Like he didn't fancy the thought of taking on such a dangerous task. But the face he made certainly suggested displeasure with the "game" as a whole. Guess he likes Hemingway though.

I just noticed that right after the remark, he tugs on his ear! Ha ha, was he warning himself to get off the topic? Haven't seen one of those since the Hal Block era. :)

hcombs0104 and What's My Line? and David Soulier and +John Dee So because of the inability to respond directly to John Dee's comment, we all end up posting our good feelings about Tony Randall in separate posts! Perhaps not such a bad thing for Tony fans. ;) I decided to respond to this one, mostly because it was the last one I came to as I read down the list of comments. I am also a big fan of Tony Randall's, especially in "The Odd Couple" TV series, and I've enjoyed seeing him in these WML episodes. I think he was a genuine intellectual (not "pseudo" at all) and also a warm, funny, charming personality. I was fortunate enough to attend several of Randall's National Actors Theater productions in the early 1990s, including the fundraising presentation of Neil Simon's original "The Odd Couple" play, which reunited Tony Randall and Jack Klugman as Felix and Oscar. I think it was the first time Jack Klugman had attempted to use his surgery-modified voice in performance (and this was probably part of the help Tony Randall gave to Jack after the surgery -- by insisting that he be in this production), and though it was different, and a bit harder to hear, he and Tony both did a wonderful job, and it was a fantastic experience seeing them together, performing those classic characters live on stage! I also love Bennett Cerf, though he is to me a complex character. I admit that I find certain things he does or says to be annoying, but I also find him to be a rare combination of intelligence and ignorance; the dignified intellectual and the silly little kid; the professional man-of-the-world and the wide-eyed innocent, unabashedly admiring young boy. His habit of blurting out exactly what he is thinking sometimes gets him into trouble (and I don't always like what he says), but it is quite the opposite of pretentious (though I don't deny that he does sound pretentious at times). Overall, I find his blend of intelligent dignity and childlike innocence/silliness to be quite endearing.

SaveThe TPC Well-put observations on Bennett. And I'm incredibly jealous that you got to see Randall and Klugman reprise their "Odd Couple" roles. "The Odd Couple" has always been a favorite show of mine!

What's My Line? Thanks. "The Odd Couple" is one of my favorite TV shows too. I paid a fortune for tickets way at the back of the theater to see Randall & Klugman in the play, but it was worth it for that once-in-a-lifetime experience! Here's a link to an archival article with more information about that performance, in case you're interested. It was an all-star cast, but the combination of Tony Randall & Jack Klugman as Felix and Oscar was worth the price of admission to me, even if the rest of the cast had been unknowns! www.nytimes.com/1991/06/20/theater/odd-couple-is-returning-to-do-a-good-deed.html Btw, I have been having a lot of technical difficulties while trying to reply to comments today, and this is the first time today that I have been able to post a comment on KZfaq. Actually, it remains to be seen whether it will work or not and whether or not I will afterwards be able to post or reply to any other comments.

SaveThe TPC Thank you again, broken comments system. Well, I saw your comment anyway. That's no guarantee anyone else on the internet will. If you haven't checked out Klugman's book about his friendship with Tony Randall, "Tony and Me", I can't recommend it highly enough. You're obviously a big enough fan to appreciate it, so I'd be sort of surprised if you haven't read it yet. Truly a touching book, and it comes with a DVD containing outtakes from the filming of "The Odd Couple" which, you know, might have been nice as bonus features on the barebones DVDs for seasons 2-5. Let's not even talk about how they butchered seasons 3-5 due to not wanting to clear any music rights. www.amazon.com/Tony-Me-Friendship-out-takes-1971-75/dp/0976830302/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404864613&sr=8-1&keywords=tony+and+me

***** Excellent point. I never thought about it that way.

I thought the same.

Actually Randall had a baby at 77, and another one later on. A couple.

He helped to make the baby - his wife had the baby!

His first wife and he could not/did not have children. She passed, he remarried, and they had to children.

Not a whole lot. One dealer (www.mysticstamp.com) is currently offering them for forty cents mint, fifteen cents used.

Not true! Arlene and Dorothy alternate first and third chair every week.

A postage stamp.

Pygiana Interesting-- I wondered the same thing. Because sometimes-- being a live show-- there were words said on WML that were absolutely forbidden on TV at the time, so I thought it might have been a slip on John's part (though a very uncharacteristic one!) I remember Bennett said "damn" once, and Groucho sang a song that had the word "hell" in it (this is just from memory-- I'm sure there were more).

What's My Line? One of the classics, of course, is when Groucho Marx was on the panel and basically insinuated that the contestant (a female wrestler) was a prostitute. Followed by Dorothy's hilarious "sex" slip up.:)

What's My Line? More edgy was Arlene's comment, "What bull did SHE throw?" - which everyone in the studio obviously interpreted as a double entendre.

fishhead06 What did she mean by that? Hinting at leaving Eddie?

+Purple Capricorn Well, Eddie left her for Elizabeth, so it might have been a roundabout crack at Fisher.

She was wonderful!

@@thesweeples3266 Killing animals for fun... is barbaric.

​@@elisabethlinz4256Only thing barbaric is your small brain.

She was wonderful! An honerable profession

Krista Brewer The cash is immaterial to it all really. Unlike other panel shows where it is.

Because no one cared. The point of the show was entertainment, not money.

Gosh Krista: i hope your able to get over your frustration and anger that a few people was awarded a few five dollar bills…. More than 60 YEARs ago.

Angry over something that occurred over 60 years ago.