The Colgate Comedy Hour with guest Jay Lawrence (1954)

The Colgate Summer Comedy Hour with guests Gene Sheldon, Jay Lawrence, Don Wilson, The Gaylords and the Will Mastin Trio (1954)

This is the best installment of the Colgate show that i have ever seen. Everyone delivers - Jay Lawrence, Gene Sheldon and Sammy are especially in top form.


 

The Colgate Comedy Hour with guests Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong and The Vagabonds (1954)

The Colgate Comedy Hour with host Jimmy Durante and guest Frank Sinatra (1953)

The Colgate Comedy Hour with guests Leonard Barr and Sammy Petrillo (1953)

The Colgate Comedy Hour with host Donald O'Connor and guests Kay Starr, Ben Blue and Frank Nelson (1952)

The Colgate Comedy Hour with Abbott & Costello - Christmas Episode (1952)

The Colgate Comedy Hour (1953) ) - Footage Offline - 05/23/09

Will Jordan always insisted that he invented the Ed Sullivan impression and that anybody else who did Ed was just doing an impression of Will Jordan doing an impression of Ed Sullivan. He also states that those people are assholes. However, as we will see in this footage, it may very well have been Jerry Lewis who invented the Sullivan impression. The Ed Sullivan Show had previously been known as The Toast of the Town, hence the name given to this satire with Martin & Lewis.

The Colgate Comedy Hour with guest Buddy Rich - The Jerry Lewis Telethon with guest KISS

Drumming legend Buddy Rich and Jerry Lewis battle it out in 1955 on this episode of Martin & Lewis' Colgate Comedy Hour.

Looking at this site you might guess that I'm some kind of crazed KISS fantatic. Nothing could be further from the truth. There just happens to be a lot of footage on the internet of KISS in classic showbiz environs. Here is KISS making a brief plea on the 1979 Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy!