To Tell the Truth - Jack Benny's violin teacher; PANEL: Johnny Carson (Dec 12, 1960)

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PANEL: Johnny Carson, Kitty Carlisle, Don Ameche, Polly Bergen
CONTESTANT #1: Larry Kurkjie (Jack Benny's violin teacher)
CONTESTANT #2: Lucy Chambliss (National Women's Pistol champion)
CONTESTANT #3: Rob Sagendorph (Publisher of the Farmer's Almanac)
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@leannsherman6723 Год назад

“Now cut that out!” Excellent Jack Benny impression by Johnny!

@retroguy9494 Год назад

Jack Benny was Johnny's idol and when he was a kid, he used to imitate Jack. He used to listen to Jack all the time on radio. From what I've read, when he first got Jack on The Tonight Show, he was as excited as a little kid on Christmas Day.

@alanr4447a Год назад

WELL!!

@susiem44 11 месяцев назад

@@alanr4447a 🤣🤣🤣🤤

@davidfritz1331 Год назад

Johnny Carson absolutely idolized Jack Benny. I will never forget his Tonight Show tribute the day Benny died.

@retroguy9494 Год назад

He also co hosted a 2 hour long tribute TV special with George Burns (who was Jack's best friend) and Bob Hope (who was also a good friend of Jack's) 7 years after he died.

@lelandfranklin3487 2 года назад

60 year old show...and still makes me smile!

@leannsherman6723 6 месяцев назад

Me too!

@Eddie_Schantz Год назад

This is the first time that I ever saw the panel go 0-12 in voting for the entire show. I loved it.

@nancyhowell4505 11 месяцев назад

@Eddie_Schantz I loved their blitz too! I did get the first one right, he looked vaguely familiar to me, so I chose him. 🤔#2👏👍👍

@beepbeeplettuce5890 5 лет назад

That johnny guy is funny. They should give him a talk show

@michaelmantle6043 4 года назад

@Richard Starkey ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Pfcy15ZUE2c.html

@moonglow1311 4 года назад

They did, they did❗

@kristabrewer9363 3 года назад

HAHAHA Very funny (I assume that was a joke)

@NotHarpoGroucho 3 года назад

He’d never make it, imagine a show called “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson”, It just has no ring to it. It would never last

@chrisfreeman9960 2 года назад

Yea. That Carson kid.

@craigkdillon 11 месяцев назад

Such a simple show. Humorous and entertaining. Why can't such shows be made today?

@enriquesanchez2001 7 месяцев назад

I guess because it would filled with obscenities and it might be harder to guess who with so much info out there nowadays.

@michaelmiller1215 6 месяцев назад

I have Polly Bergen’s autograph! I met her in the early 1980s.

@maureentuohy9423 2 года назад

Wow, I used to watch this program sitting on the floor, in front of the big counsole TV. So much fun.

@catbriggs8362 2 года назад

Right in front of the TV--and in spite of parental warnings, my eyesight is still wonderful!

@missjoshemmett 6 месяцев назад

Me, too

@robertbishop5357 4 года назад

Gone are the days of wholesome, fun and funny shows like To Tell the Truth.

@pechaa 11 месяцев назад

The UK has a very similar popular show called Would I Lie To You?

@nonenoneonenonenone 11 месяцев назад

Or the Gong Show?

@alihabib9904 6 лет назад

Polly bergen was a gorgeous lady .. R I P

@klfrostmediallc334 2 года назад

She was smokin…very accomplished

@TheBatugan77 2 года назад

She was a ridiculous attention whore.

@vassilisdellas6871 4 года назад

I like this episode with the violin teacher because it disproves the game's logic that not "remembering" something means that you don't know, so you are the imposter. That's not always the case.

@jimwinchester339 Год назад

I heartily agree. If I were Jack Benny's real violin teacher, I would not necessarily follow him terribly closely. I certainly wouldn't allow people to judge me by how closely I follow the career of one of my students (e.g., his current address - why would I care?). Jack may have not even been particularly good on the violin anyway.

@susiem44 11 месяцев назад

@@jimwinchester339 Jack was an accomplished violinist.

@dsscam 2 года назад

Polly Bergen was a beautiful woman. In 2004, Bergen played Fran Felstein on HBO's The Sopranos, the former mistress of Johnny Soprano and John F. Kennedy. From 2007 to 2011, Bergen had a guest role in Desperate Housewives as Stella Wingfield, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination

@jacquelinebell6201 Год назад

Polly bergen is hilarious! Id never heard her before.

@mrpuniverse2 8 лет назад

Lester Cohen''s book was reissued in the 195's a s Stella and Joe He wrote quite a lot of Hollywood screenplays as well

@keithnaylor1981 4 года назад

The panel may not have done well in this episode, but it was still one of the most entertaining, a lot of that due to Polly being so unpredictable and witty!

@feralbluee 2 года назад

Yup ! Polly Bergen is very good at what she does on this show :). She was also a very good dramatic actress! :) 🎭 🌷

@TheBatugan77 2 года назад

Polly was a ridiculous attention whore.

@davewebbtheauthor Год назад

Fantastic episode. Highly entertaining for a game show.

@davidfritz2957 Год назад

Johnny Carson idolized Jack Benny. I remember his "Tonight Show" the night Benny died; he was devastated.

@retroguy9494 Год назад

Well, he had been on The Tonight Show only 4 months before he died. Sadly, Johnny was not hosting that night as he was taking one of his famous month long vacations. Rich Little ( who Johnny HATED) was guest hosting. In fact, Benny even mentioned it was the first time he was on the show without Johnny. It would also be his last.

@dollsvilleplushkin 4 года назад

5:04 "39" Johnny Carson: "Now cut that out"😂

@Yugi880 3 года назад

His reaction he look like pee wee

@feralbluee 2 года назад

Johnny does do Jack Benny. i knew from another episode. “Now cut that out,” is pure Benny. :) 🎻 🙃🌷

@stacymirba1433 2 года назад

I'm stunned they were asking for Jack Benny's actual address. That doesn't seem like something you would put on the air.

@tbec3011 Год назад

It's a different time. Keep in mind JB's home was on the tourist bus route.

@retroguy9494 Год назад

tbec is right. It was a totally different and safer world in 1960. I've read of some stars on Roxbury Drive who would actually answer their doors when fans rang the bell and would sign autographs. But the real violin teacher was right. Benny's address really WAS 1002 Roxbury Drive. And Lucille Ball DID live next door at number 1000. And tour buses not only went by there, but would stop in front of Lucy's house to let people out. I read that some people would pack a lunch and disrespectfully sit on Lucy's front lawn to eat. It really pissed her off. Jimmy Stewart lived next door to Lucy on the other side. Once, when the tour bus people sat on HIS lawn to eat, he turned on the underground sprinklers and soaked them! 🤣

@mtp4430 Год назад

@@tbec3011 In 1955, my mother was on one of those tours and Jack Benny was out in front of his house and waved to the bus. It was a different world back in 1955.

@mtp4430 Год назад

@@retroguy9494In 1955, my mother was on one of those tours and Jack Benny was out in front of his house and waved to the bus. It was a different world back then.

@retroguy9494 Год назад

@@mtp4430 Wow that's awesome! What a wonderful memory for your mother! From everything I've read about Jack Benny, he was a really nice guy. It was his wife Mary that many people did not like, including George Burns who was Jack Benny's best friend.

@brucealvarez9263 7 лет назад

They needed Tom Poston that night. He was right more often than not and more often than the other panelists.

@zork999 Год назад

Lester Cohen wrote nine books and the stories for many movies, but unfortunately died of a heart attack in 1963 before Coming Home was made into a movie.

@JayTemple 8 лет назад

I would like to have asked the violin teachers, "Who plays your fictional counterpart on the show?" (It was Mel Blanc.)

@iammenuru 5 лет назад

Three games in one episode where the panel were wrong on every vote. That seemed like a very rare occurrence during this era of the show’s run.

@randysills4418 2 месяца назад

I think that I have watched all of them and I only remember one other time when they got all of them wrong. Polly was on that panel and she announced to Bud Collier that they all wouldn't be back. I wish I remembered which episode it was...❤

@vaniam6430 Год назад

I think contestant #1 in the second round, “Alice Lee Boatwright” is “Boaty” Boatwright, who would later cast “To Kill a Mockingbird” and become a famous talent scout and agent at ICM. So cool to see her here. She had worked for Goodson/Todman before joining Universal, and this episode.

@nonenoneonenonenone 11 месяцев назад

Funny, because she came off as quite stupid.

@greencheek2745 5 лет назад

Thanks for compiling this, I love it.

@keithnaylor1981 4 года назад

THE BEST EDITION EVER OF THE SHOW!

@leehart1498 2 года назад

Wow, Polly was a doll. Holy crap.

@1158scott 3 года назад

Carson knew for sure #1 wasn't the pistol champion, but picked her & helped the panel get shut out so he could do a risque joke.

@stevenroland7472 6 лет назад

Interesting Fact: Kiity Carlisle Co-starred with the Marx Brothers in Night at the Opera.

@jasonhurd4379 5 лет назад

She also sang Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus at the Metropolitan Opera.

@randysills4418 4 года назад

She also sang excerpts of the same role at Beverly Sill's Farewell in 1980 which is on U-tube...

@joeambrose3260 3 года назад

How do I utilize that info to my advantage ?

@stevenroland7472 3 года назад

@@joeambrose3260 Use to pick up Women in Bars.

@joeambrose3260 3 года назад

@@stevenroland7472 I'm under house arrest, Einstein

@philiplewis334 8 лет назад

i was surprised that the contestants skunked the panel 3 times.

@zombie-process7025 5 лет назад

Technically agronomy DOES, indeed, have "something to do with hens." XD

@judsonmusick3177 Год назад

Kitty Carlisle was usually knowledgeable about musical matters, but when she questioned Jack Benny's violin teacher she made a mistake. She thought Pierre Monteux was never a permanent conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but he actually was. Monteux was permanent conductor of the BSO from 1919 to 1924, just before Koussevitsky took over the orchestra.

@withonelook1985 11 месяцев назад

Not to mention Munch was the current conductor when this episode came out, and the brief said the guest had been with the Jack Benny Show for 20 some odd years.

@balok63a40 11 месяцев назад

OTOH, asking about Harry (Ellis) Dickson, was a clever move.

@randysills4418 2 месяца назад

There was a conductor Karl Muck and one named Charles Munch...

@Paul-lm5gv Год назад

Wow! A young Johnny Carson on the panel???!!!!

@93Jubilee 6 месяцев назад

Kitty Carlisle sounds like it's life or death in the way she talks, it's funnjy! Her colleauges on the panel once said something to that effect, too.:) But good heavens, Polly Bergen -- wanting them to know the sond she sang! -- she's often after recognition, and wanting to be center=stage.

@lissalives1 6 лет назад

Polly....wow! What a beauty. ♥️

@nonenoneonenonenone 11 месяцев назад

I always loved this show, such an original concept, the guests are so skillful.

@kenbrown438 3 года назад

Polly is the most interesting questioner !!!!

@leannsherman6723 Год назад

They couldn’t be giving out celebrities’ addresses on national television. Bud Collyer should’ve said something.

@retroguy9494 Год назад

I think it's hysterical how none of them voted for the actual violin teacher!

@elvisobsessor 7 лет назад

Enjoyed this!

@miamidolphinsfan 8 лет назад

Never saw them get schtooped all 3 games before. That probably only happened 2 or 3 times in the whole run of the show.

@randysills4418 4 года назад

I remember when it happened one other time...I wish that I could find that episode again...

@randysills4418 2 года назад

On the other episode where the panel missed all three, they all got up and were walking away from their seats. It was an episode that Polly Bergen was on too...

@KarenYvette11 2 года назад

She asked the wrong questions. They were not personal friends. He was the teacher

@skyedog24 9 месяцев назад

@11:59 she whips out her middle finger and says this is the finger I use to pull the trigger 😢😂❤ I'm willing to pitch this nice girl has never flipped anybody off in her life. Until Don ameche.

@pgh45rpms 3 года назад

They should have had Jack Benny at the end of the segment to pick out his teacher.

@catbriggs8362 2 года назад

They would have, but Jack refused to pay the cab fare to the studio. ===:>

@nonadabove 2 года назад

@@catbriggs8362 And the 1923 Maxwell wouldn't have made it across the country from Burbank.

@studogable 2 года назад

Carson was a HUGE Jack Benny fan.

@retroguy9494 Год назад

Actually Jack was Johnny's idol growing up.

@JackNorth 8 лет назад

"Which finger do you use, show me." LOL

@al4berry 4 года назад

And the audience didn't react!

@joeambrose3260 3 года назад

He asked for it

@bevh5590 4 месяца назад

I couldn’t believe that!

@orangehoof Год назад

Polly is so adorable.

@balconi89 8 лет назад

"I chose number one.....she looked like the perfect 38." Johnny Carson was funny even then......

@balconi89 8 лет назад

Also funny that number 3 in that second contestant game worked as a production assistant on the Jack Parr show, which Johnny would take over 2 years later........

@paulm4172 2 года назад

Yes, back in the day when late night TV was actually funny and entertaining.

@lkj974 2 года назад

Actually, I don’t think he comes over very well. Polly on the other hand, she would have made an exciting talk show host.

@alanr4447a 5 лет назад

Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky)'s violin teacher would be a subject dear to Johnny, who idolized the miserly ol' skinflint!

@snickpickle Год назад

Who wasn't miserly or a skinflint in real life (he was known to single-handedly get major symphony orchestras out of debt by making appearances as a guest star -- with his Stradivarius violin that he could actually play! ...with a couple of comedy things, of course, like "NOT SO FAST!!!"). Well, two out of three ain't bad! Haha! (I'll give you a couple of seconds to see where I made my funny. ;-) )

@waynehowell6160 Год назад

He legally changed his name to Jack Benny, so that was his real name.

@alanr4447a Год назад

@@waynehowell6160 I appreciate the information, but technically, since I made the comment 4 years ago, the statute of limitations on correcting what I said has run out!

@jthepickle7 2 месяца назад

Our first TV screen measured 8 x 10 inches. Had to sit pretty close - black and white, of course. Didn't spend a lot of time on the couch, what with channel changing and rabbit ear adjustment.

@dalemunkres6915 11 месяцев назад

That Don guy is a expert in the studies of the legendary BigFoot!

@cindyswimchick Год назад

Wow! You can flip the bird on National TV in 1960????

@feralbluee 2 года назад

the real violin teacher was a complete surprise!!!!! :) i got the pistol champion!! :) don’t do that often! the panel was very entertaining on this episode, i think because they missed every time. LOL 😋🌷

@dsscam 2 года назад

16:17 Marge Howell (#3) must've really liked Johnny Carson and went back and raved about him because 21 months later he was her new boss.

@randylovering24 8 лет назад

Polly voted none of them very good

@NYNC88 11 месяцев назад

At least she spoke proper English.

@Bigwave2003 2 года назад

11:53 Panelist flips the bird on TV.

@WitoldBanasik 7 лет назад

Great set of celebrities on the panel chairs.

@kristabrewer9363 3 года назад

Except for the attention getter in the last seat, I agree

@rosemarymagrino772 2 года назад

How’d that lady get away with flipping the bird?!

@jacquelinebell6201 Год назад

😅 Dont think it was that back in those days or I'm sure they would have said something lol.

@TxJanna Год назад

Yeah that made me giggle...so different now.

@pechaa 11 месяцев назад

Yes the gesture did have the same meaning now as it does today, but the context mattered.

@darijoe1 3 года назад

$3,000 in prize money given away in one episode? OUCH!

@michaeldanello3966 6 лет назад

Jack Benny's real name was Benjamin Kubelsky

@blown22 Год назад

Helene Curtis filed for Chapter 11 after this show

@terrymckay9776 4 года назад

#2 totally knows the weather in Las Vegas. lol

@Kermit_T_Frog 2 года назад

They really ought to remove that name plate from the moderator's podium. Or folks might start calling him Helene Curtis.

@ronfontenot6993 2 года назад

freaking priceless. i laughed so loud and for so long!!!

@Kermit_T_Frog 2 года назад

@@ronfontenot6993 It could be worse. Ex-lax?

@rlevitta Год назад

What - no Mel Blanc? He was Jack's teacher on the show.

@Bigbadwhitecracker 8 лет назад

I also struck out on all the three.

@albertgray1814 11 месяцев назад

Unbelievable!!! All three games and the panel was wrong all the time! Never had seen that in my life!!!

@MichaelSimmons. 8 лет назад

How funny was it, that they wanted to give out Jack Benny's address, on national television. Why didn't you just ask for his phone number, while you're at it.

@wildbillhackett 6 лет назад

Tour buses went by his house every day. Anybody could have gotten his address.

@trampwiggins5518 5 лет назад

Venom101002 %6

@BroadcastJohn 4 года назад

Many years ago, Audrey Meadows (Ralph Kramden's wife on the Honeymooners tv show from the 1950's) appeared on a game show. I was shocked when she revealed her social security number.

@NotHarpoGroucho 3 года назад

BroadcastJohn SSN are actually pretty worthless and easy to get. I’ve read they only go for literally 6 cents on the black market.

@lkj974 2 года назад

exactly. He doesn’t come off so well by more modern standards.

@paulm4172 2 года назад

Contestant #1 showed Johnny Carson exactly what she thought of his question.

@philiphoward1731 5 лет назад

I think the lady in the middle gave the finger on national TV

@al4berry 4 года назад

And the audience didn't react!

@quizmaster85 5 лет назад

6:49 - *NONE OF THEM*

@kristabrewer9363 3 года назад

I didn't miss Polly "last week" AT all! (she always likes to be a know-it-all! and she absolutely can't STAND it unless she gets that last word in.

@LEIMALOCCA 8 лет назад

ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THAT LAST GAME?! #TotallyStumped

@michaelcox436 Год назад

Just incredible to me that they let Bergen ruin the show week after week for YEARS.

@tomitstube 5 лет назад

i've never seen polly in the #4 seat, wonder if she requested it, she always seemed perturbed when collyer would ask her if she was ready with the first vote.

@kristabrewer9363 3 года назад

Is this really te first episode you've seen in ages? You do know the set changed, right?

@tomitstube 3 года назад

@@kristabrewer9363 i haven't seen many, but the one's i have polly was in the first seat.

@bobbbxxx 4 года назад

3:45 Seemed a bit cocky; there's a chance he may have enjoyed a few refreshments before the show.

@kevinfitzmaurice4072 2 года назад

In the seventies, the syndicated, Garry Moore version taped at NBC in New York. David Letterman later used the same studio and once pointed out a sign backstage: "Refreshments for To Tell the Truth personnel only."

@Yugi880 3 года назад

I really love this show since i was in Florida they wore playing around 2:30

@robgrune3284 Год назад

Bergen was certainly a beauty.

@doctorjames7454 8 лет назад

Polly is such a ditz.

@krystonjones 5 лет назад

You probably believe in Santa Claus & the Easter bunny. Polly, Lucille Ball etc are in character for a ‘fun' TV show- no one finds intellectualism entertaining. Comedy requires intelligence.

@al4berry 4 года назад

On purpose ... provides comedy

@huskyjerk 6 лет назад

23:49 why is this guy reading from a prepared statement to state who he is and what he does?

@snickpickle Год назад

It was all part of the show. For one thing, the panel could look up at the contestants to see facial twitches or whatever. And also, it gave the panelists and the audience and the viewers a chance to hear a short biography of the real person. And the host's name was Bud Collyer. The quick biography was also a part of the 1970s reboot with Gary Moore.

@313SilverPhantom 7 лет назад

did she just show THE finger on tv in 1960 :-O

@al4berry 4 года назад

And the audience didn't react!

@sharoncole9483 2 года назад

I am sure back then,she didn’t know what she was doing.

@joeambrose3260 3 года назад

I think I heard Polly squawking at the end, interrupting Buds' PSA

@Tonetwisters 4 года назад

Polly Bergen was flat gorgeous ...

@kristabrewer9363 3 года назад

um ok

@cameronfielder4955 3 года назад

Krista Brewer don’t be salty, she was

@snickpickle Год назад

@@cameronfielder4955 I don't know about "flat" gorgeous! But natural beauty or not, she seemed to be kind of grouchy and irritable in this show.

@leannsherman6723 2 месяца назад

Don Ameche shouldn’t have been asking for a celebrity’s address and that should have been forbidden by the network to provide.

@arthurharrison1345 5 лет назад

A bad day for the panel!

@michaelmantle6043 4 года назад

When Johnny Carson replaced Jack Paar as the host of the Tonight Show, Marge Howell remained on the staff of the show for the next 20 years.

@zacharydunlap-tunnage2220 2 года назад

What did she do on the Tonight Show again?

@LoudCitizen 8 лет назад

Ha! She gave them the finger -- twice!

@al4berry 4 года назад

And the audience didn't react!

@BigEightiesNewWave 4 года назад

🤘

@joeambrose3260 3 года назад

@@al4berry Before the finger came to prominence

@joeambrose3260 3 года назад

@Liquid Eternity I've read in the '60s

@kazarofchult8086 3 года назад

They players swept the panel that night

@googletaqiyya184 4 года назад

Benny didn't live next door. They both lived on cross streets, across the smaller less travelled one of the two streets. Next door means the property lines are mutual. They were not and the divider was not an alley street. Each of them had only one next door neighbor. [left-right] They both were faced the same way as well, not back to back.

@SunflowerSunflower101 Год назад

Polly Bergen - what a delight!

@XMLarry 8 лет назад

Helene Curtis took a hit on this show to the tune of $3000

@snootybaronet Год назад

#3 of the pistol champions has a lovely smile!

@ocajer 8 лет назад

That Lester Collins guy looked pissed.

@elliebellie7816 Год назад

What were they all so ferociously writing on their tablets at the beginning of the show.

@caroline4323 3 года назад

I can never tell...

@michaelwhisman7623 2 года назад

I remember when this first aired.

@waynehowell6160 Год назад

I was so sure that #1 was the violin teacher because most avid fans know that Jack pracied the violin hin the bathroom.

@withonelook1985 11 месяцев назад

Lester Cohen wrote the screenplay for Of Human Bondage...

@kvernon1 3 года назад

I'm actually not surprised they got stumped. The questions were too brittle & nit-picky across the board. Who cares what Jack Benny's phone number was? Genuinely show some interest in who they are & what they do, and ask questions everyone would love to know the answer to. And the "real" person each time was a total surprise to me! Also ... did anyone else notice that not one of the panel voted for Contestant #2 even once? That in itself is quite unusual.

@kenbrown438 3 года назад

You can't say that !!!!