When Ed Wynn hit his face with the violin and gave those looks, I must have replayed it 10 times 😂😂😂

I absolutely love Ed Wynn. Two of my favorite characters that he played is Uncle Albert in Mary Poppins and the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Such a talented, joyous, and comedic gentleman.

Ed Wynn seemed like such sweet kind person

Hes so expressive with that violin! You can tell exactly what hes saying in response!

Ed Wynn was excellent when he was on The Twilight Zone!

Wynn was one of the most funny men of that time period, so it is no surprise that his only appearance on WML is one of the most funniest mystery guest sequences of the 1950s. Wynn got into radio and then into TV rather early; his friends thought both were beneath his dignity; and both made him even more famous. So there.

Steve Allen guest panel episodes are definitely my favorite!

THIS SHOW IS TOO GOOD Why isn't there a panel show on American TV this good right now? It's ridiculous.

It's as much fun watching John Daly's reactions as it is watching Wynn.

Watching these episodes never gets old. Love these delightful looks back into yesteryear! :)

Ed’s laugh was so distinctive it gave him away in a second…

Ed Wynn was a famous vaudeville comic who transitioned to radio, then tv and movies. He had his own show in the 1940’s and was still active in the 50’s when I was a kid. He was part of the great tradition of comics such as WC Fields and Buster Keaton.

Ed Wynn: Charm and Class personified. So happy to see his legacy (and of course, so many others) carried on through this medium.

Simply delightful. Thank you for preserving these wonderful shows and sharing them with us; they are a treasure.

Loved those Easter masks!!! 🥰🥰

I’ve watched so many other WML mystery guest segments over the years: Godfrey, Russell, Benny, Armstrong, Marx. But this is the first time I’ve seen Ed Wynn’s and I couldn’t control the laughter. Soooooo funny.

Ed Wynn is wonderful. He seems to smile and laugh all the time. To think its still 10 yrs til Mary Poppins!

The best episodes were the ones with Steve Allen. 😂❤️🥰

when ed wynn wapped himself with the violin i laughed out loud. funniest bit.

Ed Wynn was priceless!! A class act!

Ooh I think Ed surprised himself lol. What a wonderfully talented person.

Wynn was amazing!! 👍👏👍

15:22 Whoever made those Easter masks sure got creative with them! I love how our bespectacled panelists had glasses and an eyepatch on theirs, while ladies' masks were adorned with cute, delicate flowers.

Wynn was a very talented person. Wish he was still around to make us laugh.

Ed Wynn did a number of things for Disney. Great comedian.

Ten years prior to Ed Wynn's memorable appearance in the 1964 Disney musical movie _Mary Poppins_.

When there was intelligent entertainment for adults on TV!

If only our society was of stronger Faith, and could enable the human race to have these wonderful talents to bring us smiling Joy, once again. As the Late, Great, Ed Wynn sang in Mary Poppins: “I love to Laugh!” We all laughed with him. Thank you, Ed Wynn. ✨🕊✨

Ed Wynn, a veteran showman and comedian. When he was performing in Indiana, a young boy was interested in seeing the theater. Ed showed the boy around, who was Red Skelton. Did Ed accidentally hit himself with that violin, or did he do that for a gag? Regardless, it's hysterical.

Ed Wynn was the voice of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland but also, he played the dentist 🦷 in The Diary of Anne Frank and was nominated for an Oscar for that role.

Love these shows that document entertainment history. These guests have actual talents and gifts. Definitely the good old days..!

What a delight to see this. Ed Wynn was just the best and so many would not know him...

I just love this cast! I’ve seen the very first group and I’ve seen others come in just for a night or two And I’ve seen other shows with other panelists but I just can’t think of a better group than this.

Dorothy: "Are you an actor or actress"? John Daly: "What other did you have in mind?" Sadly, they'd have an answer for that today.

I never missed his TV show, My favorite comedian of all time along with Winters and Williams.

R.i.P Ed Wynn 1886-1966

So Mr. Ford was husband to Mrs. Bancroft, the sword swallower! Those two liked to play with knives, didn't they? ;) As soon as I saw Ed Wynn the first words to pop out of my mouth was: "Mary Poppins!!" I recognized his as the uncle and he is so good in that movie. That was one of the funnier MG segments, for sure. I'm glad Bennett disqualified himself. That was a classy move. Good for him!

I had forgotten about Mr. Wynn, and how very much I loved him on tv when I was a really little boy: I love him still. THANK YOU so much for this post. This is on a par with Roz Russell's wild - time appearance.

Watching the civility and formality of What's My Line is a great respite from the current state of the world, in which the self is of paramount importance in people's vapid, empty lives.

This show aired exactly 63 years before the final day of the 2017 tax season. It was one of my most difficult ever (and I've been a professional tax preparer since 1989). I worked practically non-stop on the last day from before 8 AM until I sent off my final return or extension at 11:20 PM, just 40 minutes before the deadline. It's good to be back watching WML episodes. And it was a great episode to come back to. I am not usually into silly comedy but Ed Wynn's performance as MG provided much needed comic relief as my body recovers from the strain.

I would have loved to have meet Mr Cerf

As a person who lives outside of the US and doesn'tget the Game Show Channel, Thank You for postingthis.:)

"He's been used by ladies, too." Ha! Steve Allen is such a hoot.

15:00 : those holiday masks were an interesting experiment which WML never repeated. I would have paid money to see them in Christmas masks: either elf motif or with reindeer antlers.

Ed Wynn's biggest test as a performer came in October, 1956 when he created the role of "Army", the washed-up boxer's trainer, in Rod Serling's "Requiem for a Heavyweight", written especially for this LIVE (!) 90-minute TV presentation. Ed in his first serious role on LIVE TV ("Playhouse 90")! The tension during rehearsals was very high, as Ed kept flubbing his lines, etc. But....he went on LIVE..nationwide, nevertheless. I won't spoil it for you: watch the old kinescope show yourself and see what happened. Ed's son Keenan Wynn played the corrupt manager, Jack Palance (superb in this) was boxer "Mountain McClintock". (The 1962 film version featured Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, and Mickey Rooney in the 3 lead roles...ALL of them terrific, especially Gleason). LR

Ed Wynn - funny, entertaining. A joy to watch!

Dorothy Kilgallen looks like Betty Boop in this episode, just so cute and adorable.

First known episode in which a panelist disqualified self. 24th time Steve said “good night, boys.” Dorothy erroneously told John he owed a card flip. First time Remington Rand used the 3 question mark boxes intro. This is the 14th men’s night.

Arlene looks so beautiful here....

a condition would have to obtain as an a priori requisite Our polysyllabic moderator was the best.

Mr. Ed Wynn is my favorite Mad Hatter, ever.

I always loved the fact that the program was always so urbane.

Rabbit Taylor= pun, Robert Taylor.

He was in the movie of “The diary of Anne Frank” and nominated for an academy award for his role .

Ed Wynn was so funny.

Mary Poppins Ed sings, ''when I laugh hahaha, I love to laugh hahaha, laughing n laughing, haha I float so high ahaha higher and higher ....

18 April 1954 I was born on this very day - don't think the maternity ward had a telly though! Apart from that this series is great, showing the great and famous of the time.

Priceless!!!

Instead of a falsetto voice, Ed chose to play the violin!

As of the original airdate of this show, over a decade had to go by before the former “Perfect Fool” would cement a place in cinema history as Mary Poppinsʼ light-hearted (and every other part) Uncle Albert.

That was hilarious -- Elmer Fudd as the Easter Bunny😄😉😁!

I love to laugh, and this made me laugh.

Those bunny masks should be in the Smithsonian!

Mr. Burns. Boy, that name did not imply cartoons back then.

As noted, Mr. Ford is actually Fred Ford Bancroft, who died in 1963. Married to Elizabeth Bancroft, the sword swallower from April 4th. There's some pre-circus pictures of him at Find A grave, and another site with a 40s era picture of the Elizabeth and Fred. But not a lot of other info out there. (And despite his fairly unique name, I can't find anything on Mr. Burns.) www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=58796984 bucklesw.blogspot.com/2006/08/rowe-bros-circus-1940-5.html

I've always thought it ironic that a character who played such a gentle and sweet man would have a son that more often than not played heavies in the movies. I think of Keenan Wynn more in gangster, or loud-mouth roles, and I wonder what his father thought about his son's persona.

Love those masks, love these old, clean shows

I wonder how much of pre-Tonight Steve Allen show got kinescoped and preserved.

Great show... I'm not sure in what season this changed, but the best thing they ever dud was eliminate the practice of having the contestant walk over in front of the panel prior to the questioning. It was a waste of time that could be... and eventually was... better spent on questioning. I do however like when they started the practice of having the contestants shake hands with the panel.

This was the first time I noticed Dorothy's slightly sneezy nasal affliction when she introduced Steve Allen. This would be more common in later years. It only seems to occur at the beginning of the program.

Also, I don't know a lot about Ed Wynn, but this is fairly amusing as a segment. (It helps Arlene really got into it.)

Wish they still showed this

Steve Allen was brilliant 21:30

A voice actor and doing a number of characters (among my favorite work to do in fact) Ed Wynn happens to be one I do well and would love the opportunity to bring that inimitable (well I guess I should say in my case, almost inimitable? :-) voice and accent to some project, at some time or other. Loved him in that Twilight Zone episode, "One for the Angels!"

Oh, I love to laugh!

What is hilarious is that with Mr. Ford the free guesses one said clown and another mentioned elephants as part of an expression. Clowns and elephants it's like they circled his workplace unknowingly. He more than likely knew some clowns and an elephant.

I am curious if one of those rabbit masks exist today, I compliment the designs of each mask. :)

the bunny masks mightve been fine if the eyes werent as small as peas XDDD

20:01, lol!

The guy with the violin is as mad as a hatter!

There's a famous story of Ed Wynn stealing laughs from fellow comedian W.C. Fields. (This was in 1915 in The Ziegfeld Follies!) Fields finally had enough and as he was doing his pool table routine, with Wynn making faces under the table, Fields conked him on the head and knocked him out cold. That stopped that! Two great individual comics should NEVER share the stage.

I wonder if anyone has analyzed the handwriting of various individuals as they signed in. So many different styles, and supposedly can be used to indicate personality type.

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Love the masks!

Those masks were awful indeed!! Bennett really lucked out getting to take that it off.

Those have got to be some of the creepiest masks I have ever seen.

I just realized it's not much the walk of shame that bothered me, if it had only consisted in shaking hands with the panelists in a very formal way, I would have been cool with that but the whole "may I see your hands?" "what's inside your pocket" "show me your muscle" was very annoying.

God needs more Angels😊

NOTICE THE HAND SHAKE HE IS A MASTER MASON

I would think arch supports could be fairly described as "medicinal," in that they can be prescribed as a remedy for a physical malady.

That parading of contestants in front of the panel (and exiting behind John Charles Daly) was so ridiculous and no doubt humiliating for at least some of the contestants. I’m glad somebody had the good sense to eliminate both.

Comments left on prior version of this video: valcaron 1 year ago (edited) I didn't get the "Rabbit Taylor" reference at 16:00. Google yields nothing. The audience and host seemed shocked at the joke, though, so it must have been topical for the era. What's My Line? 1 year ago It was one of Bennett's typical puns, this time on the then-famous movie actor Robert Taylor, because Bennett was wearing a rabbit mask, I guess! TheMinnieme2011 7 months ago I think it was Easter weekend, and Cerf was making a pun on Robert Taylor. My apologies if I'm wrong. What's My Line? 7 months ago +TheMinnieme2011 Do you honestly not see that I answered directly above you? In August of 2014? roselle lu 5 months ago is he Uncle ALbert? hehe, Mystery GUest. He is so adorable in Mary Poppins :D I love his character. I realized when the panel asked him if he was in a musical movie, i argued with myself here coz he answered no, and when i saw the date this was aired it was before MAry Poppins, hehe, silly of me. Didn't he do any musical movies before MAry Poppins? +What's My Line? winterlandboy 5 months ago Are you talking about Buster Merryfield who was Uncle Albert on Only Fools and Horses? We're so sorry Uncle Albert roselle lu 5 months ago no im talking about Ed Wynn, Uncle ALbert on MAry Poppins roselle lu 5 months ago actually i really wish i was born in the USA and in this time/era, i love these people here and the way they act, I love how prim and proper they all were. Matthew Offenbacher 4 months ago +roselle lu There are many of us still existing my dear! roselle lu 4 months ago +Matthew Offenbacher thank God :) whew....... MattTheSaiyan 4 months ago Ed Wynn's 1949-1950 TV series is very underrated. Johan Bengtsson 10 months ago (edited) Either it was done intentionally or accidentally, when Ed Wynn slaps his face with the back of his violin, he created great comedy. 20:00 His son Keenan Wynn was twice a guest panelist on WML. PepsiMama2 1 year ago I love Ed Wynn... graperonto 1 year ago Bennett was LOVING the mystery guest spot... watching Ed Wynn play the violin while the others were still blindfolded. joed596 8 months ago Thanks for these uploads! Arlene looks particularly lovely tonight

20:13 who says "It's the most fun I've ever had on this programme!"?

Steve Allen had a black Slinky toy atop his head in this episode. Mr. Ford's hair made him look like a relative of John Daly.

I always thought examining the guest was a little strange.

I don't know how Mr. Burns's arch supports were made, but all the ones I've ever owned have elasticity, typically springy foam rubber or similar materials.

those rabbit masks reminded me of Donnie Darko

20:01 😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂