One of the few comedy genius we've ever had

Only Zero could look dignified with that bad comb-over and pie on his face! LOL!!!! Thank you for this treasure!

Thank you so much for posting...I've been looking for this for years...saw it in my youth & remember a part of the concert where Mostel did "impressions - Quick impression, Ben Franklin, very big in Philadelphia" ... that was 48 years ago and I still remember it...he was marvelous...thank you again!

He was so good. His kind of good is long gone.

Bad comb-over? It was THE comb-over of all time!

true artist living at the pinnacle (10,000 hours of practice for 3 seconds of glory!)

the main title is unknown but the piano score is improvised by Samuel Matlofsky - who passed many years ago

A GENIUS

The title music is "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Aaron Copland with slight modifications to the original motif.

Rare TV appearance probably because he was blacklisted for a long time. By 1962 I guess he was able to work more on film/tv

@diddymuck I think by 'rare' they are implying that although he appeared as a guest on many shows, he rarely got an entire show to himself such as this one, and at this point he was just bouncing back from being blacklisted by the HUAC where he didn't work for almost 10 years.

Does anybody know if the music is an original composition? And if not post the origin, please?

rare tv appearance??? He was everywhere in the 60's...laugh in, Dean Martin, talk shows, etc.

@tarotbear A few years later. He only had hair growing in back, which he tied knots with a few strands left in front. It was the weirdest think I had ever seen in my young life. I hadn't ever seen him perform then, so I didn't know to forgive him until about year after.

And..You..got pied..Zero(LOL!).

Savage.

Pity that Mel Brooks and Zero didn't get along too well. Thrown in Madeline Kahn and Gene Wilder, they could have reached the stars. Perhaps, in their own way, they did.

For their part though, Mostel and Wilder got along very well.