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Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life
Registrace 11. 10. 2013
Complete episodes of the classic comedy quiz show, "You Bet Your Life", starring "The One. . . The Only. . . Groucho Marx!"
There are a fair number of episodes already available on other channels, but this is such a difficult series to track, there's generally little background information provided, making it very difficult for viewers to determine which shows they've already seen. Here, all shows have been carefully logged, with accurate episode numbers and air dates and descriptions of the contestants appearing. With over 120 episodes available, new shows will be posted all the time-- and NOT the same ones you see over and over on CZcams and public domain DVDs!
There are a fair number of episodes already available on other channels, but this is such a difficult series to track, there's generally little background information provided, making it very difficult for viewers to determine which shows they've already seen. Here, all shows have been carefully logged, with accurate episode numbers and air dates and descriptions of the contestants appearing. With over 120 episodes available, new shows will be posted all the time-- and NOT the same ones you see over and over on CZcams and public domain DVDs!
RARE AUDIO: Groucho hosts The TONIGHT SHOW. . . with guest Lillian Roth! (1962) [EXCLUSIVE!]
Brand new exclusive material: An incredibly rare find of extremely valuable audio of Groucho Marx hosting the TONIGHT SHOW in 1962! (more info below. . . )
Virtually none of the TONIGHT SHOW prior to 1972 survives in any form, let alone from the week of shows hosted by Groucho just before Johnny Carson took over the program. But not only is this a very special recording due to the rarity of any pre-1972 TONIGHT SHOW material, but due to the enormous Marxian significance of the first guest featured: Lillian Roth, romantic lead of The Marx Bros second film, "Animal Crackers"! They even sing a duet (of sorts). George Fenneman reunites with Groucho, too, sitting in as temporary announcer, a year after the end of YOU BET YOUR LIFE.
The audio here is pretty rough, and the recording far from complete. Whoever recorded this originally was clearly uninterested in anything but The Marx Bros, since he didn't even bother to record the Barbra Streisand segment. But we're extremely lucky to be able to hear this in any form, thanks to a near-miraculous series of serendipitous events, which began with my friend (Patrick Barr) buying a bunch of reel to reel tapes at a garage sale without having any idea what he was buying, just because the label on one, "Groucho - Tonight Show", sounded intriguing. The heavily damaged reels were then expertly and carefully brought back to listenable quality by another friend, Steve Garland, via a very delicate and risky tape restoration process known as "baking". (I'm not making that term up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky-shed_syndrome#Baking )
I've been sitting on this recording for far too long, because the audio needed a lot of work, most of which is well and truly beyond my amateur skills. I'm certain a true digital audio expert could make this sound quite a bit better than it does, but after countless hours of my own tinkering around with this for more than a couple of YEARS, I felt it was long overdue to get this posted once and for all in some semi-listenable form.
I hope you enjoy this historically important and immensely entertaining recording, despite the effort required to decipher the some of the dialogue. I feel incredibly honored to have been trusted to shepherd along this process, and to finally make it available to the the public here on CZcams.
Many thanks to Patrick for trusting me with the recording, to Steve for rescuing it from the dead, and most of all, to whomever made this home recording of the original broadcast in the first place! The odds were astronomically against this recording existing in the first place, let alone its having gotten into the hands of the right people so that it could be transferred, cleaned up, and made availble to fans everywhere. . . as it should be.
(PS: Please excuse the crappy slideshow. I don't have even remotely good software for this, now that CZcams decided to remove their "just slightly better than awful" slideshow creation feature.)
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Virtually none of the TONIGHT SHOW prior to 1972 survives in any form, let alone from the week of shows hosted by Groucho just before Johnny Carson took over the program. But not only is this a very special recording due to the rarity of any pre-1972 TONIGHT SHOW material, but due to the enormous Marxian significance of the first guest featured: Lillian Roth, romantic lead of The Marx Bros second film, "Animal Crackers"! They even sing a duet (of sorts). George Fenneman reunites with Groucho, too, sitting in as temporary announcer, a year after the end of YOU BET YOUR LIFE.
The audio here is pretty rough, and the recording far from complete. Whoever recorded this originally was clearly uninterested in anything but The Marx Bros, since he didn't even bother to record the Barbra Streisand segment. But we're extremely lucky to be able to hear this in any form, thanks to a near-miraculous series of serendipitous events, which began with my friend (Patrick Barr) buying a bunch of reel to reel tapes at a garage sale without having any idea what he was buying, just because the label on one, "Groucho - Tonight Show", sounded intriguing. The heavily damaged reels were then expertly and carefully brought back to listenable quality by another friend, Steve Garland, via a very delicate and risky tape restoration process known as "baking". (I'm not making that term up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky-shed_syndrome#Baking )
I've been sitting on this recording for far too long, because the audio needed a lot of work, most of which is well and truly beyond my amateur skills. I'm certain a true digital audio expert could make this sound quite a bit better than it does, but after countless hours of my own tinkering around with this for more than a couple of YEARS, I felt it was long overdue to get this posted once and for all in some semi-listenable form.
I hope you enjoy this historically important and immensely entertaining recording, despite the effort required to decipher the some of the dialogue. I feel incredibly honored to have been trusted to shepherd along this process, and to finally make it available to the the public here on CZcams.
Many thanks to Patrick for trusting me with the recording, to Steve for rescuing it from the dead, and most of all, to whomever made this home recording of the original broadcast in the first place! The odds were astronomically against this recording existing in the first place, let alone its having gotten into the hands of the right people so that it could be transferred, cleaned up, and made availble to fans everywhere. . . as it should be.
(PS: Please excuse the crappy slideshow. I don't have even remotely good software for this, now that CZcams decided to remove their "just slightly better than awful" slideshow creation feature.)
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Click here to subscribe to the YBYL channel, where you'll find well over a hundred complete episodes you can't find anywhere else, as well as some other rare material that doesn't really belong there:
czcams.com/channels/UIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w.html
Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If you've already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
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Mr Hall has a sense of humour, what a character, and Groucho, still entertaining the world in 2024.
I know it was a hard time. Wars, very hard work...but nontheless this must have been a great time to be alive in America. Well, or it just looks like that to me. But people seemed to be so well mannered. It all started to fall apart at the end of the 50s. Compare the two young people at the beginning of this video with a todays Laquisha and Tyrone-Davayon...
Dr. Brougher is magnificent. Anybody who can hold his own with Groucho is WORLD-CLASS.
This guy looks like he's possibly undergoing a prostate examination in front of the greatest comedian/actor to walk the face of earth. God bless Julius Marx. Never before. Never again.
Some kids are just natural born BS’ers that can really put it on! 🤣🤣🤣
That guy was cool.
I was only one and a half months old when this aired so I don't think I remember it.
Afro ala 1950’s ! 😳
Love this program..
Wonderful! Every show has a trio of wonders: the most interesting people the most beautiful girls, and Groucho, the brightest and funniest star in the universe!
Melinda was so well mannered and sang.great and emoted quite well. Sweet Melinda.
Beautiful to see a father and daughter to perform. His daughter is still alive in 2024. Unfortunately for Mickey Walker was found by police in 1974 lying on a street in Freehold, NJ and taken to a hospital, where he was admitted with doctors initially thinking he was just a drunk lying on the street. Tests revealed Walker was suffering from Parkinson's Syndrome, arteriosclerosis and anemia. He was admitted to Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital for treatment. He died on April 28, 1981, in Freehold.
Looking into Charles Sandoval claim this is what l found ob line ...You Bet Your Life, Season 4, Episode 23, a contestant named Charles Sandoval claims to be the son of a president of El Salvador, and that "There was a revolution in 1929 and my father thought it would be a good time to leave the country." But there was no revolution in 1929. There was a coup in 1931, but I can't find anything indicating that the president remove in that coup (Arturo Araujo) fled to the United States. (He died in El Salvador in 1967. But there seems to be very little online about his life after the coup. I also can't find anything about whether he had children and if so whether any fled to the U.S.) My thought is that maybe 1) This was a bit, possibly written by show staff, or else Charles Sandoval was having one over on Groucho. Or 2) His story is mostly true but he's exaggerating. Maybe he misremembered the details of when his family left El Salvador. And maybe his father was a high ranking government official but not president and he thought it was a good retort to Groucho's "Was he a coward?" line.
Groucho was some of what of a sexual pervert. I have seen shows many of times where he makes sexual comments on the women
Interesting banks insured FDIC was only $10,000 in 1954 compare to now of 250,000
Grumpy Groucho
Subtitles would be great. Many jokes are hard to understand for non-natives.
Now days we would call him stoned or drunk
notifications tinas homes clipped carnations john goffreds stations
berkley jensens search first congregational church salt air opels lurch
virginias sons sweets donald shipley mess men lietz jody welchs treats
lamaroux fords scene jody welch doug michael breen verns choice alpine green
home depots account richards taxidermists mount banks floaters lost count
pis masters bindi fallen blue spruce clouds windy held colors cindy
wind tikis four straws jaws of lifes hydraulic jaws hongmeizhous see saws
carl johnsons right eye jane monda scotts fathers lie brian fitts small sigh
living rooms lit tree chum lees koi john chens pee pee hao tus offered tea
18:20 gives the football player a cigarette case! So 1950s. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Paul Anderson, billed as “the world’s strongest man,” performed at my high school roughly 20 years after this show. He demonstrated many feats of strength. Two I still remember were lifting eight high-school boys at once, and driving a 16-penny nail through a 2x4 with one blow, using only his hand.
His nose. It's a beak
15:33 classic 3 min of TV here
Great entertainment that was not grubby in any way. I wish it was still like that now. Anti WOKE in all its glory as well. When we looked to find a laugh as opposed to looking at where we could be offended
16:48 ❤❤❤❤❤❤ she is a gem. Hope they had a great marriage!
Im a "baby boomer", i love the song "The Object of my Affection", it still sound great 2024.. And Groucho was simply Genius with his fast "comeback" to any and everything that the Contestants say. I dont enjoy the Comedians of this generation . Most arejust Vulgar!!. Love this game show and Groucho. RIP Groucho.
20:40 never let an English language learner spell American! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ali breaking out the brit spelling.
Wow! Love his songs
I like the Waltz!
the good old days
Loved it at 18:05 when Groucho stepped in it. NBC is the "National Biscuit Company".
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Groucho was a pro. This guy would’ve stumped a lot of people, but Groucho went with it, without ever being cruel or mocking.
Mr. Hall is an absolutely charming man....!!
He looks like a white Bill Cosby
I think the guy had too much Dutch courage
Dear grouchy I miss you
2:16 Sarita Heredia, Mother of Steve Martin Caro, lead singer of The Left Banke (Walk away Renee, Pretty Ballerina).
lol what’s a contented cow?? Lol You know the only movie I saw with George burns was oh God and the one with Brooke Sheilds and I seen maybe one or two comedy stands up, while I was growing up. I just thought how much he reminded me of My Grandfather Rudy. ❤❤❤
I can fully understand Groucho addressing the first guy as Wally Cox, in fact I’m sure it really was him!
Ketty Lester will turn 90 on August 16, 2024.
This Groucho fella is funny. He should have been a comedian. Gosh, if he had brothers, no telling how funny they would be.