For 55 seconds, Jack Benny doesn't say a word...he just lets the crowd react to him. The master of comic timing, An absolute legend of entertainment.

I lost it when the perfume lady just yelled "SHIT!" 😂

@DLAN-jb3hb

7 жыл бұрын

The fact that it was Arlene Francis was even funnier!

Growing up in the 60s . Best childhood memories.

The video quality is just as good as it was on our old TV with rabbit ears and aluminum foil extenders.

Jack Benny is one of the funniest people who ever lived!

@AustinCasey

4 жыл бұрын

Historic Home Plans True! 😆

I saw a 'blooper' like this that wasn't supposed to be aired in about 2001 some lady news reporter freaked out and cussed at her camera people and the whole thing was recorded secretly. It was awesome she was shown to be the jerk she really was.

Now I understand why my dad's house kept falling apart. He used those damn Lexon nails !!!

If you grew up at that time you might have loved this. Such a fun era.

@amyrose1763

5 жыл бұрын

These shows were so fun! Jack Benny, captain kangaroo, every other commercial in those days were for cigarettes. I found ones the flintstones did for Winston right here on you tube. The flintstones sold beer. On shows every other commercial was for smokes and everyone on the shows smoked! So many kids from that era grew up smoking including me. Now I'm on oxygen 24/7 and have had lung cancer. My husband had surgery for lung cancer but passed away from lymphoma. That was terrible the way they peddled those things.

Jack Benny said more with a look than anyone

@dagnabbit6187

5 жыл бұрын

daviddratcliffe1 Best straight man there ever was and he knew that any laugh the people around you get makes you look good too. Contrasts that to the later stage hog egoist comics that came along.

@ITILII

4 жыл бұрын

Groucho used words better than any other comedian; Jack used silence far better than 90% of comedians can use words.

@thomaslong8401

4 жыл бұрын

My opinion. That bit was planned.

@sherryshane9797

4 жыл бұрын

We watched jack benny all the time good clean show

@HemlockRidge

4 жыл бұрын

The Master of Pregnant Pauses.

That was the first time I saw that Jack Benny sketch. Now that was funny !

Host: "Why do they say Never Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth?" Groucho Marx: "Have you tried the other end?" 🤣

This is why I miss live TV every day.

I remember watching Discovery '63 with Frank Buxton and Virginia Gibson ... shocked that I can remember their names after all these years, but I always watched it in the early '60s

the jack benny one was an actual skit.

@tracymurray6840

4 жыл бұрын

I hope it was

Thank you so much for a great laugh.

aaaahh I miss Captain Kangaroo. sob.

@JOkERBIDEN

4 жыл бұрын

vxenon67 are you calling Captain Kangaroo an s.o.b?

Captain Kangaroo was the most wonderful person. Dearly miss that man.

Jack Benny - true comedic genius. They don't make them like him anymore.

"If the unexpected happens, I never panic." (Something unexpected happens.) "SHIT!"

@garyfrancis6193

3 жыл бұрын

That surprised me from Arlene Francis my grandmother I never met.

This is so funny 6:50 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Note to self: Do not buy nails made of Lexan.

Considering that Kent's micronite filters had asbestos in them and the cigarettes had tobacco, it's no wonder that guy messed up. He probably found out what he was doing to himself.

@haroldwilkes598

2 жыл бұрын

Picky, picky...

It's amazing to see the quality of Dish TV hasn't changed over the years.

@anthonymascioli319

5 жыл бұрын

Lastman Standing ‘

@anotherhunkydory

5 жыл бұрын

When it first came out I only got the networks and cw it cost $22

@adamantman3200

5 жыл бұрын

Based on stories I've heard about Dish's 'Iron Fist' treatment of customers and employees alike, you'd think a better name for them would be 'Douche TV'!!

@dagnabbit6187

5 жыл бұрын

@@adamantman3200 I never bit because I have seen it go out at bars that have it when a storm came. I said " No Thanks ! "

@adamantman3200

5 жыл бұрын

@@dagnabbit6187 "DAGNABBIT" is one of my favorite words. I use it all the time, dagnabbit!

Some of this was truly warped!

@jonnyq680

4 жыл бұрын

are you complaining?

Still not quite sure what the blooper was on that Linkletter ad segment, except that he couldn't stop laughing.

@luisreyes1963

7 ай бұрын

Just your average case of the live TV giggles. 😁

Love Bloopers and mistakes !

@jonnyq680

4 жыл бұрын

And that true tobacco taste!

I remember that trashy , low class show queen for a day. I was just a kid & my reaction was pew It definitely predated Jerry Springer & the Kartrashians by 40 plus years

Betsy Palmer was a beauty.

I bet George Takai sends that dude Christmas presents every year

Ah, the days of live television!

@goyadressunofficial

4 жыл бұрын

Actually most of this was on tape.

21:15 I remember Mr. Green Jeans singing "please spread your tail" to a peacock. Maybe heard it once when I was 4 or 5 - weird

@yorkclassicmusic4417

7 жыл бұрын

ferociousgumby I can't find the song on KZread

Some of these were really funny! Thanks to whoever posted them.

Mr. Clean looks very different from what I always remember...

@DLAN-jb3hb

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe it was his girlfriend, lol!

@jonnyq680

4 жыл бұрын

ruff! ruff!

@privatebubba8876

4 жыл бұрын

Mrs. Clean.

@Mr05Chuck

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Clean and jerk

I'm here enjoying.. 2019

Kent's famous Micronite filter was asbestos! LLOL! Light 'em if ya gottem!

'Goddamnit...no more beads.' That was Elaine May.

@markkinsler4333

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. She was splendid. I wish I knew who all the others were.

22:50 What *was* she thinking??? ... And in a *dress* too. 😂😂😂

That's Betty White at 15.50 talking about "Love Pat" makeup. What a knockout!!

@jerryshunk7152

5 жыл бұрын

Heru- deshet I don't think it's Betty White.

@snc0023

5 жыл бұрын

No it’s not

@gnirolnamlerf593

4 жыл бұрын

Bsrbara Britton of Mr. and Mrs. North fame, I think, with a different hairstyle than usual. That's her voice, though.

So funny! William Shatner, wow !! What a surprise too.

Love that!LOVE PAT cat girl!!🧜‍♀️sirena!!

Funny, but embarrassing for Adlai Stevenson to make that slip in front of the whole United Nations! He recovered pretty well tho.

This is a good one. People on tv in the 50s were so upright and rigid that when they screwed up or were spoofed by the control booth it was great.

@mikeowen657

5 жыл бұрын

propriety was more important then

@v-town1980

5 жыл бұрын

People in the 50s were so uptight?! LOL. You can say this with a straight face while more and more "uptight" people nowadays are getting offended or upset about any little thing? Political correctness has made the majority into uptight gits.

@huntingthekaiser6490

5 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid in the 50s you couldn't say poopie out loud in mixed company, let alone on t.v., and that's a fact. Reactions to things even a little off-color on television were straight out of the Victorian era. So those shows are humorous to look back on. Today's p.c. culture is more profane by a magnitude of ten, and people are difficult to shock. You can be as filthy or provocative as you want as long as you don't puncture politically sacred cows. The results of doing that at present are scary, not funny. You can lose your job or your bank account.

I think I've seen that lady "undress" at 22:55 in a blooper clip years ago! Funny stuff, and thanks for re-posting that classic bit

Definitely a CBS gag reel, possibly shown at a company gathering.

“Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.” ― Benjamin Franklin

@bobbygarrison3122

4 жыл бұрын

Did the postmaster general really say that.

@pamh.5705

4 жыл бұрын

"They Both should"

@dapoppa2256

4 жыл бұрын

@captmitty Some think Mark Twain did, but Ben was first.

@dapoppa2256

4 жыл бұрын

@captmitty Look it up for yourself...

@dapoppa2256

4 жыл бұрын

@captmitty Look "Dummy" I will not debate this with a person who has not studied enough to understand the quote. “Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.” ― Thomas Jefferson

Cool. Thanks for posting!

That bunny in the begining is so cute. Hug bunny.

At 7:26 Jack Benny actually did accidentally trip.

Cliff Arquette, great ad-libber. Wish I knew who he was paired with...

@ernestcruz6316

6 ай бұрын

Somebody posted that clip as part of a blooper reel, and I asked that same question. Someone answered back that it was Kay Medford.

Shatner at 10:30: "Wow, that. Guy. Really. Packs. A. WHALLOP!"

@jerryshunk7152

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Haworth Like when Captain Ron Tracy kicked his butt 3 times in "The Omega Glory"!

I like The Flintstones smoking! Yup-good for ya!

I almost woke up my baby I screamed so loud when that fool said circumcised 😬😩

22:10 -- That's Cliff Arquette without the Charley Weaver costume.

I miss Captain Kangaroo and dipping Oreos in milk.

0:54 "Are you going to hunt for Indians?"....... Oh...... My......... God...... That would never go over today.

@davanmani556

5 жыл бұрын

im1who84u squeezing bosoms?

@paulohara8967

5 жыл бұрын

0.16 is even funnier. Not sure that a Christian right corresponds to a Jewish practice.

@bxdanny

5 жыл бұрын

He probably meant a Christian "rite", but it's not, it's a Jewish one.

@zyxmyk

5 жыл бұрын

that's what I thought. I'm from Oklahoma. they're US citizens.

@Jack21Spades

5 жыл бұрын

It shouldn't have gone over then.

John Daly could adlib with the best of them.

While a few things slipped out over the air, not many of these things actually went out. They were very CAREFUL in those days because the FCC license required a compliance with Standards of Good Practice..

Love to watch listen to bloopers !! Its so funny so many of them have me die Laughing so hard !!

I had heard the "circumcised" / "circumscribed" comment before on audio - I never realized Adlai Stevenson did it!!

@jonnyq680

4 жыл бұрын

Neither did he!

I kinda like this, shows early TV is no different from TV today

There aren't many actual "bloopers" in this. It's mostly gag reels that were never intended for air.

@12artman

6 жыл бұрын

These are the original TV bloopers long before Dick Clark and few ever saw them. People really like the stars they grew up watching and you're probably too young to remember most of these people. I love 'em because I'm a geezer and they make me feel like, well, a geezer.

@Domarius64

5 жыл бұрын

DAVID BADGLEY - pegbars is right - a lot of these are just gag reels, not actual bloopers. Eg. the surprise stripping.

@eriksmith6873

5 жыл бұрын

@@Domarius64 Honestly, I thought the Jack-Benny-and-the-stripper clip might have been something real. Notice how he had two guys just offstage with a wheeled piece of wallboard they could haul out as a "screen?" That must have been planned in advance. But the shot with the boobs? That never could have aired, not even by accident. That took forethought, and had it aired it would have been a career-killer for anyone involved.

@pedmst

4 жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable in the beginning when even bloopers were cute, people laughing at themselves. Then the language became foul as well as the actors angry and crude and no longer funny or enjoyable to watch.

@genkatqltr8517

4 жыл бұрын

@@pedmst Too reminiscent of today. 😝😢👎👎

Winston cigarettes was the sponsor of the Flintstones when they first came out. Think they weren’t targeting kids for future customers? Fred sang “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should “

@bemore1134

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe, maybe not. The Flintstones was geared largely towards adults, even though it was animated.

excellent find

I saw most of these as a a kid in NYC.

@jonnyq680

4 жыл бұрын

And look at you now!

kent's micronite filter had fiberglass or asbestos in them, don'tcha think? For that smooth taste! I thought that dancer was gonna drop her! the guy almost hit his nail with that hammer!

Captain kangaroo had a magic drawing board that fascinated me. And one of my favorite trivia questions is what is Tom Terrific's dog's name?

@ernestcruz6316

11 ай бұрын

Just in case no one got back to you by now: Tom Terrific's dog was Mighty Manfred.

Just like on our old Philco cabinet BW TV.

That doesn't look like a NAIL made of Lexan, it looks like a screw - in which case it wouldn't work well being hammered into wood.

@guysmalley

5 жыл бұрын

hebneh don’t be one of those guys

@paulohara8967

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, should have used a screwdriver. Might have saved some embarrassment.

@RetroCaptain

4 жыл бұрын

It appeared to be a Ring Nail (the ridges keep it from wiggling loose).

Genuine smiles ..

Art Linkletter!

Watching this video, it's a no wonder. People of early tv didn't go blind.

Allright I won an iron lung! 😲

9:03 the one moment I thought Bill Cullen was going to break up the place with a remark...and didn’t!

*Liked the skit w/Elaine May & Mike Nichols...they were a famous 'comedy duo' in the 'old days' so this was an actual skit, not a 'blooper' or 'gag' spot...May became a writer/producer/director in the '60's...and so did Nichols* ( *I think he had some small successes as a 'Director'* )

@GrantTarredus

4 жыл бұрын

Gerry Nightingale May is absolutely hilarious in the Woody Allen film Small Time Crooks.

@dadoctah

4 жыл бұрын

Nichols directed The Graduate, Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood, Biloxi Blues, Working Girl, The Birdcage, and Primary Colors. May directed The Heartbreak Kid and (ahem) Ishtar, and wrote Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Tootsie and Labyrinth.

@gerrynightingale9045

4 жыл бұрын

@@dadoctah *Thanks, 'Captain Obvious'*

Didn’t show the live Alpo commercial by Ed McMahon. The dog wouldn’t eat the food. Hehe.

Man that is a bunch of really rare clips.

Linkletters stoned man !!!

The TV crew punk'd Jack Benny good at 7:00!

Kesham was the original Clarabelle. He was the second to play Chief Thunderthud on the old "Howdy Doody Show".It's false that no one saw his face. You left out The Bubble Dancer from "The Soupy Sales Show !!!!

Your behind is an extremely steamed machine!!!!

Arlene Francis turns out to be the little vulgarian.

@whackattack4634

4 жыл бұрын

That s actually not Arlene Francis but Betsy Somethingorother....she was also on candid camera for a time

@friendofdorothy9376

4 жыл бұрын

@rob glinka You are referring to Betsy Palmer there on the “I’ve Got A Secret” clip. They are referring to Arlene Francis in the Arpege perfume commercial clip where she shockingly says s*it.

@AustinCasey

4 жыл бұрын

She’s so elegant and sexy then... “SHIT!” Lol Pretty surprised you see her like that.

@stephenadamsmusicalinterpr4203

4 жыл бұрын

@@friendofdorothy9376, Betsy Palmer was unique. I think she died recently.

@dadoctah

4 жыл бұрын

No surprise. Her first movie role was in "Murders in the Rue Morgue", where she played a character billed only as "woman of the street".

The Benny bit was obviously a put-up job by the crew, to embarrass Jack. It worked, but he's such a pro.

some of this looks like a David Lynch movie

@onefootinthegroove39

5 жыл бұрын

noisepuppet I was watching this, and as soon as I saw 14:57 to 15:40 I checked to see if this was your video.

@ZootWorld1

4 жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing you here! Big fan of your work by the way.

Lest we be heard to complain about the quality of televised entertainment today...not all these are bloopers. Behold the infancy of "Almost Live TV" when videotape gave you maybe one chance at a retake but plenty opportunities for setups. I don't doubt Jack Benny gets one but his recovery is priceless. Two entertainers you dared not pull a gaffe on: Red Skelton (who you don't see here) and Henry Morgan (who you do). Indeed, that's a William Shatner sighting at 9:55, and even then he shows. Presence. An all-too-brief sample of Nichols and May. I can only guess the host at 11:25. And sadly without sound at 23:13 is Discovery '63, which I very likely haven't seen since...well, '63...with Frank Buxton and Virginia Gibson.

One of the weirdest things I’ve ever watched.

I think that's also Arlene Francis in the clip at 22:48. She guest hosted Jack Paar's tonight show 52 times from 1958-62 and also helped fill in after he left while Johnny Carson was preparing to take over on four more occasions. I wish I knew who the lady was doing the ill-advised hand stand.

@b3j8

4 жыл бұрын

Arlene Francis was on every show she could get on! Got tired of seeing her!

*"Have you no sense of decency"*

The good old days.

What the heck was "Spread your tail?" This is something I would see when I had a high fever!

@cskiles318

4 жыл бұрын

Donna Manning 😂😂

@ernestcruz6316

6 ай бұрын

The clip was fitness show hostess Debbie Drake. The song was an audio clip of Mr. Greenjeans from Captain Kangaroo singing a song entitled "Spread Your Tail".

9:55 - satisfying video of a young *William Shatner* getting a beat down.

I love bloopers... I remember one from 'Pardon My Blooper' that said, Dad will love Wonder Bread's fresh delicious flavor, too... So remember....Its Wonder Bread, for the Breast in Bed!

@ 18:10 ..... Absolutely hilarious!

Did Arlene Francis just say shit?! 👏👏😂😂

@justplainbrad7713

4 жыл бұрын

fonso1030 So that was Arlene Francis at 02:24 the arpege girl? My eyes are not good, and the video is unclear, but that voice stood alone. Funny how some stand out...with a far nicer tone than most...and her voice certainly did stand out.

@fonso1030

4 жыл бұрын

jUSTpLAINbRAD that’s her, and yes, I agree, everything about Arlene stood out, she was a class act!

Oh yeah! Eat! Eat ! Eat! Sirena!!!🧜‍♀️

The ol' UN ambassador made a funny ...All the Way with Adlai !!!

@jerryshunk7152

5 жыл бұрын

robert landoni jr Fraudian Slip maybe, maybe not!

Getting an eyeball full huh Jack?

@6:00 She looks way older than 23 more like 29!

@50zcarsman

4 жыл бұрын

Her whole self-introduction was BS. "Never been in show business"; "Mother is headmistress at a girls' private academyl" etc. when the whole time she was nothing but an ecades, um, an ecadysia, uh, a STRIPPER!

Yum! Mr. Clean come to my house!!🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️sirena!!

This is a teaser from another time.

Wow !!!! Come on over mr. Clean!!!!!