I don't know if I've ever seen one single sketch with so many cameos! Petula Clark belts out the Burt Bacharach tune, Call Me, and look at the who's who of celebrities that answer!
This sketch comes from The Dean Martin Variety Show Volume One, disc three, DVD compilation.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Friday, July 6, 2007
Thursday, July 5, 2007
The Dick Cavett Show with guest Gloria Swanson (1970)
Janis Joplin sits on the panel looking on at the lovely Gloria Swanson, the hottest senior citizen you ever did see.
What's My Line?
What's My Line? Through the ages.
Buddy Hackett, a guest panelist:
Mystery guest - Salvador Dali:
Mystery guest - Jack Benny:
Jerry Lewis, a guest panelist:
Permanent panelist Dorothy Kilgaren passed away days before this episode was taped:
Final episode of the show's initial incarnation:
And into the seventies the panel asks, "Are you a war criminal or are you planning on becoming one in the next several years?"
The opposition:
It's time to play... What's My Utensil?
Buddy Hackett, a guest panelist:
Mystery guest - Salvador Dali:
Mystery guest - Jack Benny:
Jerry Lewis, a guest panelist:
Permanent panelist Dorothy Kilgaren passed away days before this episode was taped:
Final episode of the show's initial incarnation:
And into the seventies the panel asks, "Are you a war criminal or are you planning on becoming one in the next several years?"
The opposition:
It's time to play... What's My Utensil?
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
The Ed Sullivan Show with guests Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and The Ames Brothers (1957) - Footage Offline 3/12/08
Lucy and Desi recreate their sitcom personas for this sketch tailored specifically for a Sullivan appearance. The TV critics of the day could not, for the life of them, figure out how Ed Sullivan could seem so casual and relaxed when he was playing himself in a sketch but be so wooden when he was himself. It's a whole lot of fun seeing Ed out of his element.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
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!
Monday, July 2, 2007
Sunday, July 1, 2007
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.Saturday, June 30, 2007
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.
Friday, June 29, 2007
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!
Buddy Hackett might be gettin' skin cancer!
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Buddy Hackett
Thursday, June 28, 2007
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:
Pat Paulsen on Late Night with David Letterman in 1982:
The men that made Paulsen famous:
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
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.
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