The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest John Denver (1974)

Now I am no John Denver fan - but I love any old footage of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson! You can wait until this video loads fully and then cut to the five minute mark for the interview if you can't stomach the music.

The Mike Douglas Show with guest Frank Zappa (1974)

This footage has been on YouTube forever, but perhaps someone out there hasn't seen it yet. It's too bad Zappa is so unresponsive in this interview, I guess he hadn't mastered his television persona yet (as a disastarous stint hosting Saturday Night Live later proved). Eventually he would make incredible arguments on television on more serious panel shows as in this oft-viewed clip on Crossfire or this debate moderated by Charlie Rose or my all-time favorite, this incongruous booking on a Joan Lunden mother's day special - part one & part two!

Minnie Pearl

The number one comedy star of the Grand Ole Opry.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Dolly Parton

The Dick Cavett Show with guests Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier (1973)

On Location: Redd Foxx (1978) - Footage Offline - 09/11/10

Early on HBO wasn't granting stand-up specials to the up and comers, they were handing them out to the fully established and the old. Pat Cooper, Totie Fields, Norm Crosby, Buddy Hackett and here ... Redd Foxx.

The Irv Kupcinet Show (1977) - Footage Offline - 11/20/07

What a crazy panel! Lucille Ball, Otto Preminger, David Mamet and Elizabeth Ashley have a debate about changing morales in art and showbiz, aging actors, government and plenty more on this local Chicago television show from WWTW.

Buddy Hackett: The HBO Special (1983)

The official title for this early HBO special is Buddy Hackett Live and Uncensored. 

The Donnie and Marie Show with guests Buddy Hackett & Ruth Buzzi (1977)

Pretty painful. If it starts to hurt, just go back to the start and play that theme song again - it makes everything better.

Buddy Hackett might be gettin' skin cancer!

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Buddy Hackett

Here he is, ladies and gents, Butch Hacker:

Hackett and Jack Carter went to high school together!? WOW! And an add for Lays Potato Chips:

The Merv Griffin Show with guest Pat Paulsen etc.

I don't know where some of these YouTubers dig this stuff up. This is, apparently, a sketch that the hilarious Pat Paulsen of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour fame taped for The Merv Griffin Show in 1974 that, for reasons that I'm sure are obvious, never aired. So I am told.

Pat Paulsen on Late Night with David Letterman in 1982:

The men that made Paulsen famous:

Gary and The Hornets

A few weeks ago we watched the all-kiddie garage rock band Gary and The Hornets perform on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Today, the kids are back! First performing on an unidentified afternoon talk show and then in a commercial shilling wieners! Last time we posted a Hornets clip, Gary himself responded ... so if you're still out there Gary, these are for you.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (1977) - Footage Offline - 11/20/07

Johnny provides some memorable moments on this, his fifteenth anniversary special.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Harold Sakata (1964) - Footage Offline - 1/14/08

The James Bond movie Goldfinger was the biggest thing going in 1964 and here Harold Sakata best known as Oddjob in that film shows up on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Joan Fonaine - Footage Offline - 7/20/09

You might notice an influx of clips today. That's because I'm in constant fear of these things being pulled off the internet befrore you get a chance to see them (as happened with an episode of The Mike Douglas Show featuring guest star Luna that I was going to post last week). Here is the classic movie star who once played a lesbian in an Alfred Hitchcock film (Rebecca) - Joan Fontaine from, perhaps, 1970.

The Tonight Show with guest host Dick Liberatore

Dick Liberatore was a Los Angeles radio personality - talk about a shit excuse for a guest host. A bit blurry and cruddy but fun.

The Jerry Lewis Show with guest Cassius Clay and Sam Cooke (1963)

The above ticket isn't even from this show, but it looks nice and it has the same name. The Jerry Lewis Show lasted about three months on ABC. It was a live two hour talk show.

Various Allan Sherman

It is hard to put into perspective just how huge (no pun intended) of a star Allan Sherman was in the mid-nineteen sixties. After the success of his debut LP, My Son the Folk Singer, all manner of My Son the such and such knock-offs appeared in film, book and LP titles. Along with several songs from his albums, there is also an ad for a Camp Granada board game included in this series of clips.

I've Got a Secret (1963)

Steve Allen, Tom Poston and a very young Alan King are all here in this clip from an episode of I've Got a Secret.

The Ed Sullivan Show (1969) - Footage Offline - 2/20/08

As the show opened during the 1969-70 season.

The Ed Sullivan Comedians - Footage Offline - 1/12/08

From various years throughout the nineteen sixties the following performers appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show multiple times ... and many of them became big nightclub stars because of it.
Frank Gorshin:

Ron Carey:

Joan Rivers:

George Carlin:

Alan King:

George Burns:

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (1963)

Hypothetically speaking, this footage shouldn't exist. But here it is!

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Jack Paar!

From November 1986:

George Kirby 9/13/07 - video offline

One of the biggest African-American comedy stars of all time was comic, impressionist and dancer George Kirby. He was well known for his bang-on interpretation of Pearl Bailey and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He eventually developed a drug problem. Read more about Kirby here.

The Martin & Lewis Out takes

If you're a fan of old showbiz, old comedy or "celebrities at their worst" style out takes then you might very well be familiar with this session of profane bliss. But regardless, if you've heard it before or not, it really never gets old. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were in the recording studio taping radio spots to advertise their latest Martin & Lewis picture for Paramount, The Caddy (1953), when they let their true feelings show.

As far as the film is concerned it is a weaker-than-usual vehicle for the comedy duo. One of the film's great problems is its length. At ninety-five minutes the picture is a good twenty minutes longer than most Martin & Lewis films. Even the greatest fan of Jerry's mugging does not have that kind of stamina. However, the film debuted the song "That's Amore" for Dino and won an Oscar for Best Original Song. We also see Martin & Lewis recreate their nightclub act for the film, but under the name of their fictional film characters.

The Caddy is best viewed as a showcase for annonymous character actors - almost as a game for the viewer to determine where they have seen each familiar face before. The hilarious Nancy Kulp who would find fame as the deadpan secretary with the hots for Jethro on The Beverly Hillbillies, has a very early role in the film. Today the movie is best known as the film promoted in this classic out take reel.

The opening scene from the film:

CPO Sharkey starring Don Rickles with guests The Dickies

I'm on a real Don Rickles kick right now, so let's watch a bit of his late seventies sitcom, CPO Sharkey (1976-78). He isn't really in the second clip at all, but its footage from the obligatory punk rock episode!

This is Tom Jones Commericial

This footage was originally posted on the amazing Bedazzled TV site that showcases a plethora of rare footage for both online viewing and ordering. Strange commercials, forgotten television shows, oddball celebrity endorsements, and plenty of hard to find garage rock footage abounds over there. Make sure to check it out.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Jim Henson (1974)

I believe Johnny introduces him as Jim Jenson in this clip. It originally aired in January of 1974, but this performance originated about a decade earlier. The creepy electronic music was composed by Raymond "Powerhouse" Scott.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Sammy Davis Jr

Great Carson fun - seems like something is always getting wrecked, stained or destroyed in these old clips.

The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder (1976) - Footage Offline - 7/20/08

Originally airing February 4th, 1976 this episode of The Tomorrow Show features Star Trek as the topic with guests James Doohan, Walter Koenig and DeForrest Kelly. Harlan Ellison shows up as well and proves that he was an ass long before this whole Fantagraphics debacle.

The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder (1977) - Footage Offline - 6/22/08

Tom Snyder reunites the cast of the 1950s Superman television series, The Adventures of Superman (it has recently been released on DVD). And just so you know what this is all about, here's an ad for the Superman show too.

The Mike Douglas Show with guests The Supremes (1973)

The Mike Douglas Show with guests The Supremes (1976)

The Mike Douglas Show with guests The Supremes (1977)

The Joey Bishop Show with guest Sammy Davis Jr (1968)

The Joey Bishop Show was a late night talk show that ran from April 17, 1967 to spring of 1969 on ABC. It was ABC's attempt to compete with NBC's Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and of course it failed. Each episode was ninety minutes in length. ABC offered Bishop his own late night talk show after seeing how competent he seemed to be guest hosting for Carson. As you will see at the start of this clip, his sidekick was Regis Philbin. Previously this timeslot had been held by a news discussion program called The Les Crane Show. When Joey was canceled, he was replaced by Dick Cavett. Bishop's talk show should not be confused with his sitcom of the same name that ran from 1961-1965. That show is on DVD but the talk show is not.

To read what kind of a connection Joey Bishop had Canadian mobsters check out this article - part one and part two.

This episode of The Joey Bishop Show features cameos from Joey Bishop's brother and Sammy Davis Senior! Originally aired February 1968.

Comic book historian and old showbiz fan Mark Evanier tells an interesting story about a Regis Philbin controversy that once occured on The Joey Bishop Show:

One of his highest ratings came after a taping when Regis Philbin abruptly announced that he was quitting the show. The one day delay worked to the show's benefit that time. The news spread and much of America tuned in to hear Philbin announce -- apparently stunning Joey -- that the network had never wanted him in the first place and that he had endured too much criticism from them that he was dragging down the show. A few nights later, everyone watched again to hear Bishop announce that everything had been smoothed over, after which he welcomed Regis back to the show. The incident gave Joey two of the few nights he beat Carson but several TV critics suggested it was all an arranged stunt.

The Tonight Show with Steve Allen (1953) - Footage Offline - 06/18/08

A clip from the premiere episode of The Tonight Show with Steve Allen, at the time known as Tonight!

The Jacksons with guest Redd Foxx (1977)

Redd Foxx dances with Michael Jackson in this opening sequence of The Jacksons variety show.

Rickles (1975)

From a rarely seen 1975 CBS Special titled Rickles. It features a good example of what Rickles' live act is still like today. He sings, he dances lightly and, of course, he hurls insults. The song "I'm a Nice Guy" is still performed today (listen for the line about everyone in the band being high) at every Rickles gig. As with the most recent Rickles post, this one features many several bizarre celebrity cameos. Otto Preminger delivers his weirdest work since Skidoo (1968) - Preminger singing and doing musical shtick with Rickles on stage? I'm reverting back into that "James Brown, Little Richard, Weird Al Yankovic on Wheel Fortune together" dream state. It seems too much like a dream to be real. Like that dream I keep having about teaching a sheep how to tap dance - except with celebrities.

Wallpapers to Go

I just want to state right off that I know this is not showbiz related. But let's just pretend it belongs on this site and enjoy it.

Tony Curtis Overacting and Hurting Someone

Name the movie. Winner gets nothing.

Dick Gregory PSA (1968)

Unfortunately this has been removed from YouTube for the time being. The man who uploaded it often has footage appear, disapear and then re-appear at a later date. I don't know why. Hopefully that later date will be soon.

Perhaps the greatest political comedian of all time is Dick Gregory. In the same league as Mort Sahl, George Carlin, Dick Davy, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce and a handful of others, Gregory's comedy was devoted to a greater cause than simply making people laugh. His comedy LPs are among the most meticulously ever crafted. His material was brilliant and enlightening. Recently, he did some lush theatre gigs with Mort Sahl, a dream bill if there ever was one. Here he is in a PSA that obviously never did one bit of good.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Steve Martin (1974)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Frankie Yankovic

The Dean Martin Show with guest Don Rickles (1969)

In this wild footage we see Don Rickles reprise his live act for television. Cleaned up a bit for TV - it was probably edited for time too, but its incredible how long this set is, on somebody else's show. Just shows you how much of a fan Dino was of Don.  This footage features an incredible planted audience of celebrities. In this television studio audience, appearing specifically to participate in this segment, are Don Adams, Danny Thomas, Lena Horne, Polly Bergen, Ricardo Montalban, Barbara Eden, Ernest Borgnine, Jackie Cooper, Guy Marks, The Andrews Sisters, Rose Marie, Bob Newhart, Dom Deluise, Pat Boone, Robert Morris, Pat Collins and several more. It includes a staged cameo from Bob Hope in which Rickles reprises some once-improvised lines from a real-life cameo Hope made at one of his shows.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guests The Smothers Brothers (1992)

Tommy Smothers does an impression of Johnny Carson on The Smothers Brothers final appearance on the show before Johnny left. A reminder that Tommy Smothers says the DVD collection of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour should be out before the end of the year.

Phyllis Diller Bleach & Reynolds Wrap Commericials

Skidoo (1968): Groucho Marx and Jackie Gleason on LSD!

This was such a hard to find and hard to see film until the internet age came along. Otto Preminger's embarrassment and shame continues to be locked in the vaults but we can enjoy as much or as little of it as we want on various video sharing sites. The classic scene featured here has Jackie Gleason trip out on LSD. I'm not about to recap the history of this notorious stinker, as it has been recounted elsewhere many times. However, I do want to recount the story of Groucho Marx dropping acid in real life in order to prepare for his role in this film as the turtlenecked, LSD kingpin named God (we see Gleason experience terrified visions of the Marx character in this clip). In his memoir Confessions of a Raving Unconfined Nut (1993, Simon and Schuster), underground publisher and counterculture icon Paul Krassner recalled the experience of providing Groucho with the LSD and having to act as his "guide" for the duration of his trip.

Krassner tells the story:

"... I was hanging around with friends from the Hog Farm, who were extras in the movie. Skidoo was proacid propaganda thinly disguised as a comedy adventure ... One of the characters in Skidoo was a Mafia chieftain named God. Screenwriter Bill Cannon had suggested Groucho Marx for the part ... [Groucho] was concerned about the script of Skidoo because it pretty much advocated LSD which he had never tried, but he was curious. Moreover, he felt a certain responsibility to his young audience not to steer them wrong, so could I possibly get him some pure stuff and would I care to accompany him on a trip. I did not play hard to get. We arranged to ingest those little white tablets one afternoon at the home of an actress in Beverly Hills ...


... We had a period of silence and a period of listening to music. I was accustomed to playing rock and roll while tripping, but the record collection at this house consisted entirely of Classical music and Broadway show albums. First we listened to the Bach Cantata No. 7. 'I'm supposed to be Jewish,' Groucho said, 'But I was seeing the most beautiful visions of Gothic cathedrals. Do you think Bach knew he was doing that?'

... Later, we were listening to the score of a musical comedy, Fanny. There was one song called 'Welcome Home,' where the lyrics go something like, 'Welcome home, says the clock,' and the chair says, 'Welcome home,' and so do various other pieces of furniture. Groucho started acting out each line, as though he were actually being greeted by the clock, the chair, and the rest of the furniture. He was like a child, charmed by his own ability to respond to the music that way.


... At one point in our conversation, Groucho somehow got into a negative space. He was equally cynical about institutions, such as marriage - 'legal quicksand' - and individuals, such as Lyndon Johnson - 'that potato-head.'

... Groucho was holding on to his cigar for a long time, but he never smoked it, he only sniffed it occasionally. 'Everybody has their own Laurel and Hardy,' he mused. 'A miniature Laurel and Hardy, one on each shoulder. Your little Oliver Hardy bawls you out - he says, 'Well this is a fine mess you've gotten us into.' And your little Stan Laurel gets all weepy - 'Oh, Ollie. I couldn't help it. I'm sorry, I did the best I could ...'

... Later, when Groucho started chuckling to himself, I hesitated to interrupt his reverie, but I had to ask, 'What struck you funny?' 'I was thinking about this movie, Skidoo,' he said. 'I mean some of it is just plain ridiculous. This kid puts his stationery, which is soaked in LSD, into the water supply of the prison, and suddenly everybody gets completely reformed. There's a prisoner who says, 'Oh, gosh, now I don't have to be a rapist anymore!' ... But I'm getting a big kick out of playing somebody named God like a dirty old man. You wanna know why ... it's because - do you realize that irreverence and reverence are the same thing?'


... He recalled Otto Preminger telling him about his own response to taking LSD and then he mimicked Preminger's accent: "I saw tings, bot I did not zee myself.' Groucho was looking in a mirror on the dining room wall, and he said, 'Well, I can see myself but I still don't understand what the hell I'm doing here ...'

... A week later, Groucho told me that the Hog Farm had turned him on with marijuana on the set of Skidoo. When Skidoo was released, Tim Leary saw it, and he cheerfully admitted, 'I was fooled by Otto Preminger. He's much hipper than me ...'

... In 1971, during an inerview with Flash magazine, Groucho Marx said, I think the only hope this country has is Nixon's assassination ...' It would later be revealed ... that an FBI file on Groucho Marx had indeed been started, and he was labeled a 'national security risk.' I phoned Groucho to tell him the good news. 'I deny everything,' he said, 'because I lie about everything.' He paused, then added, 'And everything I deny is a lie.'

Hollywood Squares with guest Big Bird

Host Peter Marshall in his finest cocaine snorting glasses and Big Bird with a dazed look on his face. Of course, Carol Spinney as the voice of Big Bird.

Charles Nelson Reilly (1931-2007)

The Dick Cavett Show with guest Jerry Lewis

This footage comes from the excellent SHOUT! Factory collection The Dick Cavett Show: Comic Legends. Jerry Lewis pontificates all serious like.

The Mike Douglas Show with guest Muhammad Ali (1970) - Footage Offline - 10/09/09

The volume is quite low but this is still very worthwhile. I've previously posted three different appearances of Muhammad Ali on The Mike Douglas Show over here and this is yet another one. Obviously he was a frequent guest. Here sparks fly with his boxing nemesis Smoking Joe Frazier. From 1969 or '70.

Who Do You Trust Bloopers with Johnny Carson (presented by John Ritter)

John Ritter hosted this special which resembles Bloopers and Practical Jokes. Seems to be titled Life's Funniest Moments... or something like that. You can barely make out the name of the show over Ritter's left shoulder. Here he introduces outtakes from the game show Who Do You Trust? hosted by Johnny Carson. When Carson moved to The Tonight Show, Adults Only comedy record star Woody Woodbury replaced him.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guests Burt Reynolds, Dom Deluise, Pete Barbutti and others

I'm posting all kinds of cool footage from the old Tonight Show in one full swoop today, because if one waits too long, the Carson lawyers will have this stuff taken down. So enjoy it while it lasts. First up it's the biggest movie star in the world, a man who loves to chew gum, run moonshine and pose naked on bear skin rugs: Burt Reynolds. Burt Appears with Johnny on September 26th, 1974 to promote the Robert Aldrich picture The Longest Yard. Leather pants, whipped cream, Dom Deluise on panel ... this is a whole lotta fun.

From the same episode, Dom Deluise engages Johnny in some tom foolery with plenty of egg yolk. In reality, this part of the show occurs prior to Reynolds coming out ... but y'know ... I wanted to start with Reynolds. Is that okay with you?

Johnny's opening monologue from October 14th, 1982. The policeman gag has to do with his recent tabloid-style arrest for drinking and driving - this was his first appearance on television after the incident.

Jazz musician and stand-up comedian or stand-up comedian and jazz musician, Pete Barbutti appeared as a regular guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Barbutti is still around, performing and living in Las Vegas. He also had a weird Canadian cooking show for a while in the early eighties called Celebrity Microwaves (!). Despite that sad side project, he always had a real sharp, smarmy persona, one that constantly made fun of silly showbiz cliches (However, his website greets you with loud scary music more suited for a nineteen eighties corporate training video than for a jazz musican). This appearance is from March 12th, 1992 - it's what the specialthing.com kids of today would refer to as "alternative comedy" although there wasn't such a term in Barbutti's day.

And from an earlier Barbutti - Carson appearance (looks like the late seventies) it's Barbutti giving us some jazz with the comedy.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson featuring guests Gary and the Hornets (1966)

Here's a very weird Tonight Show oddity. Unfortunately, it's not the best of quality -looks like somebody filmed it off their TV with a camcorder, but the novelty makes it. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1966 featuring the pre-teen garage rock band(!!!) Gary and the Hornets. As Johnny mentions in their intro, they recorded for the SMASH Records label. SMASH was also home to The Walker Brothers (featuring current college radio hero Scott Walker), Jay and The Techniques, James Brown and C&W novelty sensation Roger "King of the Road" Miller. Gary and the Hornets are less famous than all of those acts. They're a fine example of how something can not be that good and still be totally amazing!

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson opening and promo - Footage Offline - 10/20/07

Just like the title says, this seems to be from the early 1970s.

Paul Masson Wine Commercials with Orson Welles

First, here is how these commercials with Orson Welles are supposed to go.


And now ... how they are not!


Ah... never gets old.

The Soupy Sales Show (1965)

Some fella calling himself Sandysoup has posted a full episode of The Soupy Sales Show in three parts as it originally aired on WNEW. What a treat!

And Soupy performs his hit novelty song The Mouse on an episode of Hulaballoo in 1965.

The Buick Berle Show (1955) - Footage Offline 2/26/08

An hour's worth of The Buick -Berle Show, obviously with Milton Berle but also guest stars Peter Lawford and Carol Channing -posted by Ira Gallen of TVDays.com. This was the seventh season of The Milton Berle Show, now with a new sponsor. Like most early television shows, and the radio programs that came before them, a show's name was at the mercy of a sponsor. Formerly The Texaco Star Theatre we see it now as The Buick Berle Show. I'm sure most people just called it The Milton Berle Show ... much to the shagrin of network suits. And to Milton's consternation the show changed from a weekly Milton showcase to just twice a month, The Martha Raye Show co-starring Wally Cox picking up the timeslot for the other two weeks. Goodman Ace and the number one female television and radio comedy writer for over forty years, Selma Diamond, were writers on this incarnation of the Berle show. You can listen to a nice chunk of the Selma Diamond Talks LP, pictured above, on this episode of The Generation Exploitation Podcast. It is a collection of audio from Selma's appearances on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar.

Like most episodes, this one opens with a ridiculously elaborate opening number of chorus dancers and soft shoe. Berle makes reference to 1986 in his opening monologue. At the six minute and forty second mark the hilarious bird faced Arnold Stang makes his appearance. Stang started with Berle on radio and constantly upstaged the famous cigar chomper (not an easy feat!). Stang was piss-your-pants funny and the highlight of most Milton Berle shows. He of course went on to be the voice of Hanna-Barbera's Top Cat. Wally Cox played a like-minded wimp on The Martha Raye Show, although Stang's meek self was likely to blow his top at Berle each week, where Cox was more likely to be pushed around, leaving his glasses crooked.

The Steve Allen Show with guest Tim Buckley (1969) - Footage Offline - 10/10/07

Child Terrorized on Match Game '74

What a buncha jerks.

The Mike Douglas Show with guests The Jackson Five

Steve Martin Special with guest Johnny Cash (1978)

The footage at the start of this clip is from the special Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy from 1978.

Social Security Film with guest star Morey Amsterdam (1964)

This is real strange. A promotional film put out by the government featuring nightclub comedian and co-star of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Morey Amsterdam. Here we see Morey struggling with an awkward real life government official who should never have been put on camera. The opening titles are in the classic UPA/Cartoon Modern style, but I am unsure who animated them. This is courtesy the amazing collection of television historian, Ira Gallen.

Various Barabara Feldon Footage

Get Smart's Agent 99 was a sexy sitcom star who made many the teenage boy's heart a flutter in the mid-60s. First off - a dandruff shampoo commericial starring Barbara:

Barbara loses her dress on Laugh-In.

And Barbara Feldon as the celebrity contestant on this early 70s episode of The $10,000 Pyramid.

The Tonight Show with Steve Allen

Very few kinescopes of The Tonight Show with Steve Allen remain. Most were destroyed by NBC long ago along with most of their historical television archives in order to create more storage space. This footage had previously been assumed lost to the ages. Pretty cool to see - and if you think Skitch Henderson's Tonight Show band resembles the Klan, Steve-orino difuses that situation right away.

The Tonight Show with guest host Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner fills in for Johnny circa 1970 and Ed McMahon hams it up in a Rexall commercial. Too bad we can't see the Godfrey Cambridge footage Carl mentions!

The Hollywood Palace with guests The Turtles (1966)

Guest host Jimmy Durante introduces The Turtles singing Can I Get to Know You Better on this episode of The Hollywood Palace from 1967.