What's My Line? - Elsa Maxwell; Pat O' Brian; Ernie Kovacs [panel]; Mike Todd [panel] (Oct 13, 1957)

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  • MYSTERY GUEST: Elsa Maxwell [hostess/socialite]; Pat O' Brian [film actor]
    PANEL: Ernie Kovacs, Arlene Francis, Mike Todd, Bennett Cerf
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  • @geraldkatz7986
    @geraldkatz7986 Před 2 lety +24

    Ernie Kovacs finally gets a Yes on asking if it folds and then proceeds to get the product. Perfect! Right up there with Steve Allen getting a contestant makes bread boxes.

  • @dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653

    Hilarious when Ernie finally got his folding product. 🤣

  • @johngreen3543
    @johngreen3543 Před 3 lety +12

    I know a lot of the people that love WML and don't like Ernie Kovacs, but I really love it when he shows up. This episode with the German impression was priceless WML.

    • @briane173
      @briane173 Před rokem

      Going back and watching this series I haven't seen or heard anything about Kovacs I don't particularly like, but I also never had a chance to see him outside of this show. I was only 5 y/o when he died.

  • @loissimmons6558
    @loissimmons6558 Před 6 lety +38

    The Bugs Bunny "What a Maroon" Award goes to the member of Pat O'Brien's staff who called a well-known WML panelist to find out where Pat should go when appearing on that evening's WML episode.

  • @miltonmania18
    @miltonmania18 Před 7 lety +18

    Ernie's reaction is priceless.

  • @BrianPicchi
    @BrianPicchi Před 10 lety +26

    Ernie finally got something that folds! So awesome!

  • @karenleemallonee684
    @karenleemallonee684 Před 2 lety +7

    This show was brilliant! I was thrilled to see Mike Todd as a panelist. A few years back I read a book on the life of Mike called, The Nine Lives of Mike Todd, what a life he had. It was written by a friend of his and was almost finished with it, but he died in the crash with Mr. Todd. The book had been finished by this gentleman's wife, I don't recall the last name. I wish I still had the book, it was a very good read!!!

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments Před 10 lety +13

    Elsa was like the fifth mystery guest in the early days of WML 1950.

  • @josephlacerra8433
    @josephlacerra8433 Před 6 lety +14

    I recall sitting excitedly in front of the TV to watch an enormous party at Madison Square Garden, given by Mike Todd and Liz Taylor. It soon seemed to me like just a lot of people just milling around. I quickly lost interest and went off to play.

  • @Dolphin-cb9sq
    @Dolphin-cb9sq Před 4 lety +10

    True classics. Such a joy to watch.

  • @michaelnivens6267
    @michaelnivens6267 Před 3 lety +7

    The back and forth between Pat and Kovacs Is priceless

  • @sgcollins
    @sgcollins Před 3 lety +5

    A glorious victory for Ernie!

  • @michaelnivens6267
    @michaelnivens6267 Před 3 lety +6

    Hooray for Ernie !!

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE Před 9 lety +17

    John: Now, what is it that mr Horn does with salami?
    Bennett: He doesn't do the dance of the seven veils of Salami. 13:48
    ("The Dance of the Seven Veils" is a very famous piece of music from Richard Strauss's opera *Salome*)

  • @goodsamaritanskitchen5165
    @goodsamaritanskitchen5165 Před 10 lety +9

    He finally got it! ... too funny.

    • @savethetpc6406
      @savethetpc6406 Před 10 lety +10

      Good Samaritans' Kitchen
      Hurray for Ernie not only getting a yes answer to his incessant "folding" question at long last -- but actually pursuing the whole theme and coming up with the right answer! I'm sure they picked that particular guest with him in mind, but it is rather amazing that he got all the way to the right product on one turn and just a few questions! I would guess that he thought he was just being silly when he asked his follow-up question about PJs -- but the producers (or whoever it was that chose the guests) obviously knew the way his mind worked and were ready for him! Great stuff!

  • @billding7073
    @billding7073 Před 9 lety +28

    Ernie was so ahead of his time. He was funny without trying.

    • @bwayland1290
      @bwayland1290 Před 7 lety +12

      bill ding THANK GOD ,for someone who takes up for ERNIE. My Dad's Favorite. When Ernie died in his Corvair coming back from Milton Berle's in Beverly Hills, in the early hours of Jan.13, 1962, his wife EDIE ADAMS was too distraught to identify his body; so JACK LEMMON, Ernie's best friend identified it instead. All these senseless insults to Ernie are very surprising. Most media historians think of his innovations in TV as being Trailblazing. Indeed HE WAS !
      Sad to think both he & Mike Todd would be dead within 5 years ;TODD on March 22,1958 & KOVACS on Jan.13, 1962. Each in their 40s. Each in accidents.
      As far as Elsa Maxwell: I only heard about what a dreadful women she was from my Mom & Aunts growing up, this is my 1st time seeing her...OMG what a mess. She's too hilarious to be for real ! This may sound funny , but how did she become... whatever she became ?

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 Před 4 lety +1

      @@bwayland1290 Ernie Kovacs was not killed coming back from Milton Berle's. Close though.. The party was a baby shower for Milton Berle and his wife, but it was held at Billy Wilder's house.

    • @slaytonp
      @slaytonp Před 4 lety

      @@bwayland1290 Elsa Maxwell was a mystery to everyone at the time. Her parties were always given on someone else's money, and she appeared to have more chutzpah than class. She was a joke and got by with it.

    • @jerrylee8261
      @jerrylee8261 Před 2 lety

      @@bwayland1290 I was wondering about her. To be such a "famous party giver" I would have thought she would have been charming and nice.

    • @voxtango1916
      @voxtango1916 Před rokem

      @@bwayland1290 Well, she was a lesbian for a start - and apparently never said no to a cheeseburger.

  • @lcfritsch
    @lcfritsch Před 5 lety +8

    The play that Pat O'Brien had just finished on Broadway was "Miss LonelyHearts" and only had twelve performances. This appears to be his last play on Broadway, although he did do other stage work in touring companies.

    • @vincentdaly78
      @vincentdaly78 Před 3 lety

      I just looked it up. Should have read teh comments first.

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 Před 3 lety +1

      The play was based on a novel by Nathanael West, whose latter-day publisher was... Bennett Cerf.

  • @jvcomedy
    @jvcomedy Před 9 lety +19

    Kovacs used to smoke his cigars on this show, but tonight he said he hadn't lit one on the show in 2 months. Dorothy was gone tonight and Daly had just announced she'd be back next week when Kovacs lit his cigar and Arlene said "you better not do that next week". Makes me wonder if Dorothy had complained about his cigar smoke and that's why he hadn't been lighting them.

    • @Beson-SE
      @Beson-SE Před 9 lety +8

      When he was the MG some weeks ago, he sneaked up in front of Dorothy and puffed smoke in her face. :)

    • @ToddSF
      @ToddSF Před 8 lety +10

      I really thought Kovacs was even more obnoxious than usual during that game when he had his right arm around Arlene, resting on the back of her chair, with his cigar adjacent to her right shoulder. The word "boor" comes to mind where Kovacs is concerned.

    • @syd8802
      @syd8802 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Beson-SE my ears still haven't recovered from that episode 😂

    • @sebastiencimpaye5871
      @sebastiencimpaye5871 Před 3 lety

      What episode was this

    • @jvcomedy
      @jvcomedy Před 3 lety

      @@sebastiencimpaye5871 The episode information is listed just below the video that is posted. This one is 10/13/57

  • @poolside123canadian7
    @poolside123canadian7 Před 5 lety +6

    Ernie Kovacs reminds me of Patty Deutsch’s husband Donald Ross. :-)
    Not too dull & never too over the top.🤓

  • @davidsanderson5918
    @davidsanderson5918 Před 4 lety +12

    Hey could you correct the title? Pat O'Brian should be Pat O'Brien with an E. Played wonderfully with Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces. And bith he and Cagney were great lifelong pals.

  • @ToddSF
    @ToddSF Před 8 lety +8

    I was hoping that Ernie Kovacs would ask Mr. Purves if his product could be folded! And he did ask and received an affirmative answer! I wonder if the producers didn't pick the contestant deliberately, hoping for just that, since they knew Kovacs kept asking that question.

    • @arlinemiskie2590
      @arlinemiskie2590 Před 7 lety

      usa, the

    • @CamhiRichard
      @CamhiRichard Před 6 lety +5

      And John Daly was pretty cagey, giving Bennett the first question. That way, there was a better chance that Ernie would get to ask about there being a product involved. Bennett was always trying to link the person with the place they came from.

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 Před 5 lety +4

      reminiscent of the time when Steve Allen was a panelist and a guest was brought in who made breadboxes

  • @joncheskin
    @joncheskin Před 5 lety +14

    I think I know why WML considered Ernie Kovacs for their fourth panelist. First off, they wanted a legitimate comedian (Fred Allen and Steve Allen both served this role in the past), but second he was a bit of an interesting bad boy without being completely crude and inappropriate, like Hal Block. In the end I think he is a bit too distracting, notwithstanding the hilarious bit when he finally finds a product that folds. Fred and Steve always kept the comedy within the game itself, and I think too often Kovacs wrecks the pacing and direction of the show.

  • @richardmcleod1930
    @richardmcleod1930 Před 2 lety +2

    Elsa Maxwell is priceless!

  • @leesher1845
    @leesher1845 Před 3 lety +3

    Cute how Pat O’Brien blew a kiss to Arlene.

  • @juliansinger
    @juliansinger Před 8 lety +9

    Because I fixate on things, at 1:35 or so, during her introduction of Todd, Arlene mentions 'The biggest party since 7-Up.' I was wondering if there was a specific party, but it seems to have just been advertising-related. Also, there does not seem to have been a particular fire she was referencing.
    Mr. Purves has some patents for sofa beds; the last one I can find in a short check is from 1975. Also had a low-level magic act in the 40s. (Billboard refers to him as 'semi-pro'.) In addition, did Boy Scout stuff. Seems to have died in 1988.
    Ernie does sometimes make things grind to a halt, but I enjoy his give and take with the rest of the panel/John.

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 Před 6 lety +7

      Fresh Up Freddie was a Disney-created animated rooster mascot for 7 Up in the 1950's. He gave viewers lessons about how to plan successful parties and picnics by having a plenty of 7 Up on hand.
      A sample commercial:
      czcams.com/video/OunVR-yfsds/video.html

    • @sleb99
      @sleb99 Před 4 lety +1

      Lois Simmons thank you for the commercial!

    • @spongevee1
      @spongevee1 Před 3 lety +1

      I think what she referred to was that Mike Todd was about to have a huge party at Madison Square Garden.

  • @Johnnycdrums
    @Johnnycdrums Před 6 lety +4

    "No substitute for class".

  • @cresentltd
    @cresentltd Před 10 lety +5

    The Todd Party for Around the World is on the DVD of the movie. It still is a train wreck of the 50's.

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE Před 9 lety +16

    Ernie: Is this something you can fold?
    1 contestant: No.
    Ernie: Seven weeks in a row. 8:47
    ----
    Ernie: Can you fold it?
    2 contestant: Yes! (FINALLY!)
    Ernie: I never worked out a followed-up question to that! :) 22:33

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 9 lety +6

      I've gotten into more than one discussion with folks over the past months about the irony that Kovacs introduced the "can it be folded" question purely as a gag, and somehow, it became a semi-standard question asked with some regularity after-- mostly by Dorothy, the most serious game player of all!

    • @theamishumpire1301
      @theamishumpire1301 Před 9 lety +3

      What's My Line? Dorthy also likes to ask is it solid or liquid almost every time.

    • @neilmidkiff
      @neilmidkiff Před 8 lety +11

      +What's My Line? Watching this, I'm wondering if the folding bed maker sent in his name and occupation after hearing Ernie ask the question in previous weeks, or if Mark Goodson had to go out searching for someone with a folding product. Either way, the look on Ernie's face made it worth the trouble!

    • @Beson-SE
      @Beson-SE Před 8 lety +5

      +Neil Midkiff I think the latter. Mark Goodson maybe decided to have a contestant with something foldable when Ernie was on the show (and hoping he would ask the question!).

    • @shadowg6563
      @shadowg6563 Před 8 lety +5

      Kovacs adds absolutely nothing to this show. He is not funny and his questions rarely reveal anything to solve the line of the contestant.

  • @mikejschin
    @mikejschin Před 5 lety +19

    Three days before this episode, Bennett's Random House published Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century. Controversial, also: people either love it or hate it.
    It would have been fitting if Remington Rand had sponsored the show that night, because Rand got her pen name from a typewriter of theirs that she was using as a young writer.

    • @WendyDarling1974
      @WendyDarling1974 Před 4 lety +8

      A couple weeks before this episode, Dorothy plugged the novel, saying she'd had an advance copy.

    • @getit5196
      @getit5196 Před 3 lety +2

      I love the book, I read it in 1995, thanks for the info.

  • @TheCarnivalguy
    @TheCarnivalguy Před rokem

    Such a coincidence I picked this one to watch tonight. Daly mentions the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Canada and the US and I am viewing this episode on the day of her death, September 8, 2022.

  • @roberttelarket4934
    @roberttelarket4934 Před rokem +1

    I think that heart pendant of Arlene's was ripped off her neck by as mugger in New York City decades later!

  • @ChrisHansonCanada
    @ChrisHansonCanada Před rokem +1

    1:30 If Henry Morgan had been on the panel, he would have told Arlene to get on with it.

  • @leannsherman6723
    @leannsherman6723 Před rokem

    Cute that Mr. Hahn, the salami guy gave everybody a sample; that’s very good advertising!

  • @briane173
    @briane173 Před rokem

    Kovacs beat that question to death and then made the most of it. BEYOND lucky.

  • @virginiahanna869
    @virginiahanna869 Před 5 lety +4

    That is funny when it can be folded! LOL!

  • @CuriousMutation
    @CuriousMutation Před 5 lety +13

    Michael Todd killed in a plane crash five months after this episode aired.

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 Před 3 lety +1

      Please post proof pronto

    • @CuriousMutation
      @CuriousMutation Před 3 lety +1

      @@joeambrose3260 It's on the internet, Tonto...

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 Před 3 lety +1

      @@CuriousMutation Then it must be true, Kemo - sabe

    • @WAL_DC-6B
      @WAL_DC-6B Před 3 lety +1

      Mike Todd died in a plane crash near Grants, NM on March 22, 1958. The twin engine, propeller Lockheed Lodestar, named "the Liz," was apparently overweight with fuel, passengers and luggage. The plane flew into icing conditions causing it to gain more weight, have an engine fail and loose control killing all five on board.

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 Před 3 lety +1

      @@WAL_DC-6B Poppycock. I watched the Leonard Nimoy show
      " In Search of........Mike Todd" He faked his death, fled to Columbia and ran a bogota bodega for nearly 20 yrs ( Pedro's Pastrami Palace ) Ironically, he died in 1978, when he was hit by debris from a mid-air collision. Karma's a bitch

  • @Troyis
    @Troyis Před 6 lety +7

    I believe it's Pat O'Brien and not Pat O'Brian.

  • @preppysocks209
    @preppysocks209 Před rokem

    Not so many years earlier, Irving Berlin wrote a song for Ethel Merman in "Call Me Madam," in which she plays a character based on Perle Mesta, another party giver whom Bennett mentions here. Part of the lyrics go,
    "They could go to Elsa Maxwell
    When they had an axe to grind
    They could always grind their axe well
    At the parties she designed
    Now the hatchet grinders all prefer to call
    On the hostess with the mostes' on the ball."

  • @christy4421
    @christy4421 Před 5 lety +8

    Mike and Ernie were sadly on borrowed time at this point :(

  • @usermikes
    @usermikes Před 5 lety +5

    Pat O' Brian...Started out as a song, and dance man..

  • @BellaFirenze
    @BellaFirenze Před 2 lety +1

    Mike Todd was killed the following year in an airplane crash. He was 48 years old.

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE Před 9 lety +8

    Ernie and the second contestant trade cigars. :) 14:43

  • @ilzamaria6424
    @ilzamaria6424 Před 3 lety +1

    First time I hear Mike Todd's voice.

  • @Chosimba13
    @Chosimba13 Před 3 lety +3

    John's face at 9:48 lol

  • @leesher1845
    @leesher1845 Před 2 lety +1

    Tragic end to Mike Todd. 😔

  • @AllenMQuinn
    @AllenMQuinn Před 5 lety +4

    How could someone be so dumb to call a panelist and spoil the mystery guest?

  • @jimbeasley1931
    @jimbeasley1931 Před 9 lety +4

    The last contestant was from my hometown.

  • @alanrode7791
    @alanrode7791 Před 10 lety +8

    Either everyone on these shows were hard of hearing or the acoustics were terrible.

    • @TheCometHunter
      @TheCometHunter Před 6 lety +6

      The accoustics were terrible. And heavy-duty analog electric equipment wasn't exactly known for operating silently. Stray noises from the audience could also be heard by the panelists, even if the microphones back then couldn't hear them.

  • @tjbnyc76
    @tjbnyc76 Před 10 lety +7

    Elsa Maxwell really couldn't be considered a "socialite," although she certainly was *social*, and adored associating with, writing about, and being feted by members of 'society'. She was, in her own words, "...a short, fat, homely piano player from Keokuk, Iowa, with no money or background, [who] decided to become a legend and did just that."

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 10 lety +4

      She was best known for hosting parties, so I don't see how "socialite" is an inaccurate description of her.

    • @tjbnyc76
      @tjbnyc76 Před 10 lety +4

      What's My Line? In Ms. Maxwell's day, the term 'socialite' would be described as "a socially prominent person," inferring that a socialite is, by extension, a member of 'high society,' which Elsa was not. In fact, most of the bills for her legendary parties were footed by her high society pals in exchange for the attendant publicity, as well as the unquestionable knack that Maxwell had for throwing one hell of a wingding. Just a quibble with the word, no offense meant (to either you, OR Ms. Maxwell!). Incidentally, I'm thrilled that you've been uploading all of these episodes in their entirety. For that, many, many thanks.

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 10 lety +1

      Oh, I see what you mean now. I really don't know anything about Elsa Maxwell other than her being known as a party hostess. Certainly no offense taken on my part. I appreciate the clarification.

  • @stephensaunders1845
    @stephensaunders1845 Před 7 lety +4

    Ernie Kovacs reminds me of the British comedian Bob Monkhouse, who appeared as a panellist just a month later (Nov 10). Both very sure of themselves while trying to appear self-effacing, both slightly creepy towards women.

  • @soulierinvestments
    @soulierinvestments Před 10 lety +6

    Todd's party, which CBS broadcasted and which CBS WML plugged here, was one of the biggest broadcast disasters in the whole history of 1950s TV. Walter Cronkite narrated it and was loath thereafter to even admit to it. CBS claimed Todd promised more than he delivered. Todd claimed everything that could go wrong did. As for Michael Todd himself, it would have been interesting to see 1) how his movie career developed and 2) how long Liz Taylor would have stayed with him --- had he not died young shortly after all this in a plane wreck.

    • @boognish999
      @boognish999 Před 9 lety +6

      Liz Taylor was 26 and on her 3rd marriage at the time of Mike Todd's death so I think she was already on a roll. But who knows..

  • @michaelnivens6267
    @michaelnivens6267 Před 3 lety +2

    He Is Irish !! for cryin out loud

  • @davidsanderson5918
    @davidsanderson5918 Před 4 lety +4

    Well I never....I always thought salami was pork ie. from a pig. Pork IS from a pig, isn't it?!?

    • @slaytonp
      @slaytonp Před 4 lety +2

      I heard that too. Yes, salami is usually pork, but I think the "no" answer came because the question went on to cite "ham" more specifically. I couldn't think of any other reason for it.

    • @vincentdaly78
      @vincentdaly78 Před 3 lety +3

      Thee are all-beef salamis. It would not surprise me if a salami made in Brooklyn in 1957 was kosher and therefore pork-free.

    • @bweatherman3345
      @bweatherman3345 Před 3 lety +2

      @@vincentdaly78 smart remark

  • @gdownz1044
    @gdownz1044 Před rokem

    Paddy O 🙌👍

  • @donnawoodford6641
    @donnawoodford6641 Před 3 lety +1

    Who would call a panelist to ask for directions rather than call the studio?

  • @gregh7400
    @gregh7400 Před 5 lety +4

    I'm sometimes amazed at the dumb questions asked and the fact that some questions are asked several times. For god's sake, pay attention to what's going on.

    • @jd66604
      @jd66604 Před 5 lety +3

      There is a back story to some of the "stupid questions" I was reading that Bennett Cerf and a couple others knew some of the guests and we're trying to get the other one rilled up

    • @jerrylee8261
      @jerrylee8261 Před 2 lety +1

      Greg, what gets me is when a panelist says was that a yes or no and John always says and flips a card at a no so answer should be obvious. Have heard Dorothy ask this and she's certainly no dummy. Maybe just stalling for time.

  • @Danno682
    @Danno682 Před rokem

    Yikes! I read Ernie’s cigar in his car was also unlit!

  • @tomklock568
    @tomklock568 Před 6 lety +5

    How long was Ernie Kovacs on the show? I didn't know he had this long of an involvement in the show.

    • @philippapay4352
      @philippapay4352 Před 5 lety +2

      Tom Klock - Like David Niven, Tom Poston, Paul Winchell and others he was a frequent guest panelist, though not a regular guest panelist as were Martin Gabel, Tony Randall and Robert Q. Lewis. During this stretch where Dorothy was particularly taken with other journalistic duties with QEII & Prince Philip's visit to North America, Ernie was on for quite a few weeks in a row. After his tenure, they'd grab Steve Allen whenever they could get him to substitute for another panelist.

  • @michaelnivens6267
    @michaelnivens6267 Před 3 lety +2

    never heard of Elsa Maxwell

    • @k.g.1259
      @k.g.1259 Před 3 lety

      I had to google her name..... ** she passed away 8 months before I was born

    • @michaelnivens6267
      @michaelnivens6267 Před 3 lety +1

      @@k.g.1259 - I was nine

    • @waldolydecker8118
      @waldolydecker8118 Před rokem +2

      gossip columnist and gadabout party-thrower for high society of the entertainment/business/political world in the 1920's-1950's. The wealthy scavenger/treasure hunt party portrayed at the beginning of the 1936 film "My Man Godfrey" is modeled on her famous high society parties of that era.

  • @wcwindom56
    @wcwindom56 Před 4 lety +3

    unusual to have 3 men on the panel; I wonder why they didnt get a female to replace Dorothy?

    • @arthurmerchant8016
      @arthurmerchant8016 Před 3 lety +2

      I think there was an episode or two w/ 3 female panelists. Also in the first year, I recall several times either Arlene or Dorothy was the sole female panelist and then they both became regulars by 1951.

  • @leannsherman6723
    @leannsherman6723 Před rokem

    Ernie Kovacs was funny!

  • @LarsRyeJeppesen
    @LarsRyeJeppesen Před 7 lety +3

    Bennet on a roll today.. #salami

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 Před 6 lety +3

      Salami on a roll. Makes a nice sandwich. I prefer hard salami to Genoa, thank you.

    • @CamhiRichard
      @CamhiRichard Před 6 lety +5

      That's the wurst kind!

    • @sdgakatbk
      @sdgakatbk Před rokem

      @@CamhiRichard

  • @Beson-SE
    @Beson-SE Před 9 lety +3

    20:30 Who was this Tots/Toots/Tuts (?) Shore/Sure/Shure (?) they always talked about?

    • @WhatsMyLine
      @WhatsMyLine  Před 9 lety +11

      Toots Shor was a restaurateur who had a NYC establishment frequented by celebrities (Jackie Gleason, for one). John is said to have eaten (and drank) there before the WML shows, which is why his name comes up. Toots was actually a guest on one WML you must not have gotten around to seeing yet:
      czcams.com/video/0VK4jCnt3Nw/video.html

    • @loissimmons6558
      @loissimmons6558 Před 6 lety +5

      While Toots Shor was considered a restaurateur by others, according to the dialog between Jackie Gleason and Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, Shor considered himself to be a saloon keeper. However, the name of his establishment was Toots Shor's Restaurant.

    • @preppysocks209
      @preppysocks209 Před 5 lety +5

      It was a very popular hangout with actors and ballplayers, including Yogi Berra, whose remark, "Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded" supposedly was a reference to Toots Shor's. Another Berra story was that while at Toots Shor's one night, he was introduced to Ernest Hemingway as an "important writer," to which Berra supposedly responded, "What paper you with, Ernie?"

    • @sdgakatbk
      @sdgakatbk Před rokem

      @@preppysocks209 Classic. I can picture Yogi doing that.

  • @steveburrus5526
    @steveburrus5526 Před 7 lety +2

    Ya he, Todd, sure left an empty bed for Elizabeth Taylor okay. Was ".........The World" movie the only movie that he ever produced, at least of such popularity?

    • @accomplice55
      @accomplice55 Před 3 lety +1

      He was mainly a theatrical producer.

  • @roberttelarket4934
    @roberttelarket4934 Před rokem

    Cerf is brilliant hitting on bologna, etc.

  • @leannsherman6723
    @leannsherman6723 Před rokem

    Since when would you keep salami in another room of the house other than the kitchen? I never saw salami in the bedroom.😂

  • @ChrisHansonCanada
    @ChrisHansonCanada Před 7 měsíci +1

    ELSA MAXWELL
    TIES KNOTS IN SALAMI
    MAKES FOLDING BEDS

  • @leannsherman6723
    @leannsherman6723 Před rokem

    Salami is not always served cold.

  • @garydeblasio8810
    @garydeblasio8810 Před 3 lety +2

    Does Ernie Kovacs EVER not put on a show? He and Victor Borge are my least favorite panelists.

    • @peternagy-im4be
      @peternagy-im4be Před rokem

      Victor Borge was the worst of the worst. Nobody ever came close.

  • @miketheyunggod2534
    @miketheyunggod2534 Před rokem

    Ernie traded his cigar for the contestant's.. 14:45.

  • @ilzamaria6424
    @ilzamaria6424 Před 3 lety +1

    Pat O'Brien 's beautiful restaurant in New Orleans have anything to do with him ?

  • @vingotaq777
    @vingotaq777 Před 2 lety

    Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams were a lovely couple

  • @roberttelarket4934
    @roberttelarket4934 Před rokem

    Why 3 men panelists and not the usual 2 men and 2 women? Surely they could find a female celebrity!

  • @beccawiley6684
    @beccawiley6684 Před 5 lety +1

    Did Pat O'Brien really call Arlene "Dorothy"??

    • @bethe192
      @bethe192 Před 4 lety +1

      Called her " darling". 😉👋

  • @ChrisHansonCanada
    @ChrisHansonCanada Před rokem +1

    15:00 Smoking Nazis even existed in 1957.

  • @jennjenn61
    @jennjenn61 Před 7 lety +8

    I swear mike todd resembles gary burghoff

  • @roberttelarket4934
    @roberttelarket4934 Před rokem

    How ridiculous the man ties the ends of salamis!

  • @winomaster
    @winomaster Před 5 lety +2

    Re:. Salami man
    One uncommon use for the salami doing as a friend has done and strapping it to the upper thigh before attending a party. It seems to set all the ladies a Twitter.

  • @trock6577
    @trock6577 Před rokem +1

    Why did they have Kovacs on this show ? He’s not funny in the least . He’s embarrassing

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 Před 8 měsíci

      Thank you! This is always my opinion, even when I was a child! I never ,Ike’s him in so many ways!!,

  • @Johnnycdrums
    @Johnnycdrums Před 6 lety +4

    What the hell did Elizabeth Taylor see in Chuck Todd?
    He's not even funny.

    • @chuckendweiss4849
      @chuckendweiss4849 Před 5 lety +3

      Johnnyc drums Money back then he was loaded

    • @accomplice55
      @accomplice55 Před 3 lety

      Chuck?

    • @bartgreenberg9001
      @bartgreenberg9001 Před 3 lety +1

      Mike Todd was a brilliant powerhouse (and reportedly a wonderful lover) who relentlessly wooed Elizabeth with words, flowers, and jewels until she couldn’t say no.

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 Před 8 měsíci

      @@accomplice55his name was MIKE Todd!!!

    • @accomplice55
      @accomplice55 Před 8 měsíci

      @@sandybruce9092: Yes, I know. Someone previously referred to him as "Chuck Todd," so I wrote "Chuck?" With a question mark. Because I knew his name was Mike.

  • @bp.andrewherron8539
    @bp.andrewherron8539 Před 3 lety +3

    Ernie Kovacs was a very funny man, but he is so irritating in this show.

  • @leannsherman6723
    @leannsherman6723 Před rokem

    While I’m sure it wasn’t done intentionally, it was insensitive and in very poor taste to be speaking in German so soon after the Holocaust when presumably, many survivors were still alive and watching this program.

    • @leannsherman6723
      @leannsherman6723 Před rokem

      John Charles daily was always so gracious with the guests. No matter what they did he always made them feel comfortable and important.

  • @kristabrewer9363
    @kristabrewer9363 Před 4 lety +2

    John is annoying and Ernie's gotta GO!!!

  • @freddyfurrah3789
    @freddyfurrah3789 Před rokem

    Ernie believed the IRS wasn't entitled to any money he made 💯 👌 🤷 🙏 🤣

  • @freddyfurrah3789
    @freddyfurrah3789 Před rokem

    Elsa had to be a LESBIAN to look like that. Don't tell me GENETICS doesn't play a part in it 😤 😒 😑

  • @roberttelarket4934
    @roberttelarket4934 Před rokem

    Why 3 men panelists and not the usual 2 men and 2 women? Surely they could find a female celebrity!