It may be called comedy but that was a very difficult skit which required a lot of skill & they both did an excellent job.

@mlbrooks4066

2 ай бұрын

Kudos to the costumer, too. Most of the time you can’t tell which leg is the fake.

Amazingly, I was actually in the studio audience for this! My (then) girlfriend and I were being tourists in LA, and were checking out the Chinese Theater, when someone came around offering tickets, wanting to know if anyone wanted to see a show taping live. My GF, as it happens, was and is a huge Smothers Brothers fan (as am I, but not quite as much as she was!), and we immediately said YES!

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

2 ай бұрын

That is amazing! Pretty cool you found your way to this video. Thanks for tuning in!

@mengenalrusiadengananna1866

Ай бұрын

This is amazing!

@TheGrimStoic

Ай бұрын

Great - any idea how they did three legs, then? Edit: Someone kindly elaborated already, I see...

@baddie1shoe

Ай бұрын

Are you still with your girlfriend?

@positivelysimful1283

Ай бұрын

@@TheSmothersBrothersShow Very cool! This must be such a blast from the past for you! I remember watching all these variety shows w/my dad on TV when they were popular and the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was one of his faves.

Her “right” arm is false so she can use the real one to maneuver the 3rd leg. I love Andrea Martin so much! Had no idea she’s been on the Smother’s Brothers Show.

@cathmcfarlane-noble2087

2 ай бұрын

Yes just like Rolf Harris with his character Jake the Peg

@jeffbaranowski6695

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the explanation.

@La1Z1Bri

2 ай бұрын

I was totally convinced. You ruined the magic for me.

@jishasen7328

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I was looking only at the legs. Not the arms.

@baldieman64

2 ай бұрын

"Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade". - John Keats

Andrea Martin was, is and will always be a national treasure and a comedy icon.

@karenleemallonee684

2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure but I thought she was Canadian, I could be wrong though. Either way she's absolutely fantastic! 👍👍

@cheryal2809

2 ай бұрын

"Moogie!" I've been watching Andrea Martin since her days on SCTV. Fantastic actor and comedian.

@kevinangus4848

2 ай бұрын

You know she's Canadian, eh? 😁

@harveybc

2 ай бұрын

@@kevinangus4848 While she had duel citizenship she was born in Portland, Maine, eh. 😄

@Tracy81258

2 ай бұрын

You folks assumed I was referring to her as an American national treasure, which is fine, but speaks more to your bias than mine. Actually she’s a treasure for the entire world, but whatever.

Can you imagine all the work that went into this classic? the design, the construction of the dress and the dance, and wow, the rehearsals. They did it in the 1960s version of the show with Janet Leigh, and then repeated here in a later show - it's that classic. THIS is the sort of thing we're missing because we don't have variety shows anymore.

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

2 ай бұрын

Yes! Variety shows were so much fun.

I love that when they dance together, it changes to 5/4 time. Mason Williams is a genius and Tom and Dick show it off flawlessly. Also, I like she manipulated the third leg with her right hand, it looks like it was even articulated as it seemed to bend at the knee.

@jenn976

2 ай бұрын

And they incorporated the word “off-beat” in the lyrics during that section.

@TinkeringJohn

2 ай бұрын

The fake leg never bends at the knee.

They need to rerun these classic shows on TV!

Amazing puppetry. It took me a minute to figure out which leg was fake!

I have always loved Andrea Martin. She can crack me up with just some of her facial expressions.

I’m here for Andrea Martin

I used to have an actual vinyl record album, and this song was on it. I could remember every word, even 40 years later!

That was delightful. I was hoping they would explain how they presented this illusion. I guess it's just as much fun to pretend it was real. I can live with that.

@drmgiverdrmgiver5335

2 ай бұрын

Her right arm was tucked into her outfit and controlled a fake leg.

@stephaniecarrow4898

2 ай бұрын

​@@drmgiverdrmgiver5335 Thanks for the explanation! Now I'm even more impressed with all that Ms. Martin had to focus on and coordinate for the skit to work. And the choreography, while funny, was also very clever and delightful.

@MsSweetlandofliberty

2 ай бұрын

@@drmgiverdrmgiver5335Thanks for explaining to it - fun to watch knowing what she was doing!

@tottiemae2258

2 ай бұрын

I had to rewatch it. You're right! I was always staring at her feet and never noticed what her arms were doing. SO clever. Thanks!

@heidibee501

2 ай бұрын

I rewatched it too. Having the information needed to understand it thanks to my fell9w commenter made it even more fun.

Holy cow! Totally agree w prev comments that this skit was very difficult. Supreme skills/rehearsals needed to pull this puppy off. Excellent, well done, everyone involved! Costume designer was genius....😂

I can't believe it! I saw this when I was about 10 or 11 and never forgot that song, lol. I've been searching online for it for years. And I had no idea it was Andrea Martin! So nice to see it again.

@davidbethke5463

2 ай бұрын

I remembered this song somehow. Was a version of it on one of their albums?

@JosephFaletti

2 ай бұрын

@@davidbethke5463 It was on the Smothers Brothers’ Mom Always Liked You Best album. It was written by Mason Williams and was also on his The Mason Williams Ear Show album which included his recording of Saturday Night At The World.

:-O Whoever designed that costume for Andrea to use was a genius!

I love this, and I love Andrea Martin. We must accept the Mystery.

I'm amazed at the great talents here. Smothers Bros are always fun to watch and hear.

My father and mom knew the Smothers Brothers when we lived in California in the late 60s. Only one of my siblings was born bald, and the Brothers liked to rub her head "for luck." They were hilarious.

Ahhh, they just don't make tv like this anymore 😢.

@stevesmodelbuilds5473

2 ай бұрын

It's not allowed...

@kevinbailey8827

2 ай бұрын

@@stevesmodelbuilds5473 the Smothers Brothers had a history of not being allowed.

@kfl611

2 ай бұрын

Now most of it is bad reality tv, which no one will be watching in 50 years. But good written skits and classics from the 1950's and 1960 - 1980 will still be being watched and laughed along with 100 or 200 years from now. Can you imagine if you could see a live performance of a William Shakespeare play now? Wouldn't that be marvelous? By the original playwright how he intended it to be done?

@kevinbailey8827

2 ай бұрын

@@kfl611 No one is watching most of the TV shows from the 1970s and 80s. Only some of it gets remembered. Carol Burnet is timeless. Donny and Marie was not. Cher is timeless but her variety shows were not really. As for Shakespeare, he’s the only one of his time who is familiar to people today who aren’t scholars. 300 years in the future, people will watch and enjoy performances on El Coastaragua’s Got Talent, as often as they watch skits from the 80s like this. Also, this and Got Talent will seem like the same era to them.

I always liked Tommy best!!!❤❤❤

😂🕺 Tommy Smothers & Andrea Martin's skit is pure comedy gold AND talent! 🎵

I have always loved anything Andrea Martin was apart of!! She's awesome.

@user-vp1sc7tt4m

2 ай бұрын

And I want to add, this Smothers Brothers comedy show hour was awesome too.

That was great! The good ol' days!

True genius clean comedy.

My wife and are seniors, remembering these old variety shows. We have a few different ones on DVD, glad to see these on KZread

Now that was great comedy, very funny stuff!!! 👍👍

I remember watching this episode when I was a kid. My parents watched The Smothers Brothers when it was on.

Tommy was dressed to perfection.

Bravo! I loved the Smothers Brothers! I love this three-legged lady, too, LOL. I imagine that dance was very difficult to do. It would certainly confuse the heck out of me!

@dandaniels5260

Ай бұрын

Obviously, a great deal of skill involved on Andrea's part.

A delightful reminder of how much fun television used to be.

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

2 ай бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!

That was funny and cute. I've always loved Andrea Martin's facial expressions.

She was absolutely awesome! That looked very difficult and I’m sure she worked really hard rehearsing that. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

2 ай бұрын

Andrea Martin is great, even with two legs!

Smothers Bros. ....the greatest comedy duo of our time. With Andrea Martin? Insanely entertaining.

12:54 I watched a 3-legged ice skater years ago. Hilarious!

Clever with a nice message.

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Wow, that was very real looking. Good job.

That was quite a mind-f....pretty cool.

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Absolutely Love This!!!!

LOL! I was concentrating so hard on the feet to figure it out, it took me most of the vid to figure out it was the ARM that was fake!

Andrea Martin!

This routine was done by Rolf Harris in the 1960s in a skit called ’Jake the Peg’.

This took me back to my childhood! It totally flummoxed me back then. Even now it took me a moment to realize her right arm is fake and controlling the fake right leg.

Absolutely darling!! 🦵🦵🦵💗

so hilarious and perfect!

This skit was originally on the 1960s Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, featuring a different actress.

@mlbrooks4066

2 ай бұрын

I saw that too. I think it was Janet Leigh. They obviously filmed it two different times with two different actors but i don’t know why.

@christienelson1437

2 ай бұрын

@@mlbrooks4066 Obviously there are two people in the dress much like the dancing horse bit. It looks like the actress is exhausted and maybe unable to do the scene again without resting. Hopefully they got the scene in one take.

@rayray8687

2 ай бұрын

@@christienelson1437: There isn’t a 2nd person under the dress, the 3rd ‘leg’ is controlled by the woman’s right hand concealed under the dress. The right hand you see outside the dress is fake and does not move on its own.

@robstockton911

2 ай бұрын

@@christienelson1437 Huh?! The right arm you see is fake, she’s using her real right arm to operate the fake right leg. There’s no “second person.” SMH

@johnbaker8183

2 ай бұрын

I think it was Nanette Fabray and Ken Berry.

Brings back memories!❤

Absolutely astounding.

As usual...Smother Brother's genius afoot....

I really enjoyed this skit from the past.Time shure goes by quickly

Wow!!Toll!!😊

Fantastic!! Thank's

Love Andrea

This same act appeared on Pen & Tellers fool us show, and I knew I recognized it prior to now.

Ha!! I was wondering how on earth …. Then read below about the false right arm 🤣

Dang, Andrea Martin is so good

THat was brilliant.

Hilarious!

She’s quite adept with that 3rd leg!

I miss variety shows.

How innovative!

Perfect!

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@DarylBark

2 ай бұрын

@@TheSmothersBrothersShow My pleasure, thank you for the upload. I was born in 1963 and I have loved watching these guys since I was a kid, they are part of the reason I became a Musician and Entertainer. Peace.

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

2 ай бұрын

@@DarylBark That's so great! All the best 🎶

Tommy is really a suave dancer

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

2 ай бұрын

Smooth 🕺

Tom was/is the best.

Smooth.

A waltz is in a time signature of 3 so 3 legs is fitting lol

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

Ай бұрын

😂

How weird! This song, from my childhood, (almost 60 years ago) was suddenly going through my head yesterday.Today I find it in my KZread feed! Is AI reading our minds now??? (PS The lyrics on the Smothers Brothers album were slightly different from these.)

I can't figure out which leg is fake.

The funniest woman alive. I used to look forward to SCTV every week mostly for her.

Impressive.

OMG! Funny!

Brilliant! Innocent fun! You can't get that anymore, alas.

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Showing anyone can be great at their desired craft

That was very clever.

Jake the Peg _(deedle leedle leedle lee)_ called. Rolf Harris wants his bit back.

I too have been referred to as a three legged dancer. That and “Tripod”.

Hahaha, Tommy is so blue dan ub e. lol

This raises a anatomical question………..🤔😳

@TheSmothersBrothersShow

2 ай бұрын

Don’t ask 🫢

Her right arm controlled the third leg

I'm confused. The Smothers Brothers Comedy hour was broadcast from 1967 to 1969. Andrea Martin was born in 1947, so she would be at most 22 years old at the time of this show. This is pre-SCTV and at the very beginning of her career, yet she's introduced here more or less as a name star. Was she a known commodity before SCTV?

@njlauren

2 ай бұрын

This may have been from the 'new' Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour from the late 80s. The original was 67 to 70, there was a show on 75 just called the Smothers Brothers, then the revival of the comedy hour in 87 I think

@njlauren

2 ай бұрын

I looked it up, this was on the late 80s series, like 1988.

@larskars5835

2 ай бұрын

@@njlauren Yeah, I see now, I hadn't realized there was a 1988 season. With an incredible list of guests, BTW…

@njlauren

2 ай бұрын

@@larskars5835 ​@larskars5835 I knew there had been a reboot but didn't realize it was that late. Interestingly John Hartford and Mason Williams both came back to write for it, both were talented comedy writers and musicians as well. I don't know if I watched the 1988 series. I wonder of CBS realized how good the original series was or if they owed them a year bc they violated the contract 20 years before. The show had good ratings originally, CBS cancelled it because of Nixon. Funny part is CBS at one point temporarily paused the show bc they were afraid they had offended Johnson. Johnson wrote a letter to the smothers brothers telling them it was important that ppl be able to lampoon and the like,; I believe he also sent a note to Paley about the same thing. I doubt Nixon had a sense of humor.

@mlbrooks4066

2 ай бұрын

Janet Leigh did it in 1967 with Tommy Smothers. It's posted on KZread as The Last Great Waltz.

Hah! :D

I'm still trying to figure out how they did that.

She needed to do a dance off with Jake the Peg…

Music and lyrics by Mason Williams, of ‘Classical Gas’ fame.

How they do the 3rd leg?

@samkitty5894

2 ай бұрын

Outside right leg I think is fake, operated by her real right hand. Fake right hand is also just a prop.

I'd love to know how she controller that third leg!

@lmoore3rd

2 ай бұрын

It looks like she has a false right arm and she's using her actual right arm under the costume to control the extra leg.

@robstockton911

2 ай бұрын

@@lmoore3rd Yeah, you can actually see her real right arm under the back of her dress.

American version of the Australia 'Jake the Peg' from 1965.

The added outside Right leg is controlled by her false right arm

Tommy is so cute dressed in formal clothes.

@mlbrooks4066

2 ай бұрын

Tommy was an absolute hunk under the suits, an athlete in college, and he still kept in shape.

@oltedders

2 ай бұрын

@mlbrooks4066 I have a couple of pix I pulled off of the internet of high school boy Tommy performing gymnastic feats. Buff, hotty!

RIP Tommy

Flashbacks to Jake the Pake anyone ?😱

She should have done the texas two step

A certain (now disgraced) Rolf Harris did just as well with a song about 3 legged “Jake the Peg”.

You don't see this any more

Martin’s always been phenomenal but that had to be insanely complicated to rehearse and pull off.

Not only did she have 3 legs, I think she also had a broken arm.

Dancing the waltz in 5/8 is not that easy…

Ah, so Rolf Harris wasn’t the one to start the three leg craze.

Tommie was a talented Actor ……….

OH yeah everybody's laughing now but when I do the three-legged dance, I get the cops called on me.

Who’s thinking Rolf Harris..?