I was born in January 1964 , my mother was 29.old for a mom in those days.she loved loved piano as for the sound of the instrument, though she could not play any . This man was amongst her most favorite of all entertainers..I watch ever video I find of this man just because I know my mother would have.😊
Thank you for posting these Victor Borge routines. I grew up seeing him on variety shows and his humor has dated well - which is to say - not dated at all. He was a unique solo entertainer with a richer bag of tricks than almost anyone before or since. A one-man mix of rapid-fire and often self-effacing patter, visual gags that rival the Marx Bros, and of course, expert musicality. Mirth and music personified - a true legend.
It's coming back, see Owen Benjamin who livestreams music and comedy. I'm sure there will be such a thing again. Yeah it will be white men, cause that's who does this stuff.
From reading all the comments I see that I'm not alone in my feelings about these wonderful shows. These were magical times and things were much more heartfelt and had real meaning. Sadly we can't go back, but very lucky that we can recall the aura of what those times were like.
Times have changed.....and not for the better! They think that to be popular or famous you have to use vulgar and foul language. Victor Borge was unique, a great comedian and no foul language!
Thanks for sharing this gem. Victor was awesome, but that boy was phenomenal! The whole show was CLASSY! Today's most shows are trashy..... So, I've stopped watching TV for over 7 years now.
(,guest) Hye Angels, I too have largely stopped watching t.v., I give it a chance quite often, but it's mostly cheap, banale, unrewarding, boring! I spend quite a lit of time here on RU-vid, dipping into wonderful shows like Victor Borge's, here ; Carol Burnett, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Dick Van Dyke, Perry Como, Lucille Ball, and many others. Plus great old movies that Ive never seen, and interesting documentaries about our favourite " all time greats". Its a whole world of entertainment, seemingly almost inexhaustible. Thank you so much ! 🌹😊🌹😊🌹
what a genius at work...I bet he wrote all his own material, a lot is adlib....I would love to have that Pontiac as well....this video is a gem, nothing on TV anymore, thankful for stuff like this to watch and relive...
Thanx so much, artfrob, for sharing this little treasure. Keep 'em coming, please. I used to watch Victor Borge with my mom and dad, every chance we got; on his show, and many others. We all loved him. Daddy's favorite routine was Inflated Arithmetic, and Mama and I loved Phonetic Punctuation. If anyone said 'Loo-TEN-ant', daddy would grin and say 'You mean Loo-ELEVEN-ant'. And mama and I would always end our questions with 'Keeresch pookt', drawing the curved line and period of the question mark in the air. I miss seeing Victor on tv. Such a fun and funny, multi-talented man. RIP mama, daddy, and Victor, and thanx, all, so so very much for the magic, music, and memories.
Thank You for uploading this. Now I understand where Peter Schickele and the PDQ Bach idea comes from. I wouldn't be surprised if Peter Schickele watched Victor Borge's weekly show pretty religiously. This is really hilarious and he was really ahead of the times. Cheers from NYC!!!
What I like most in him is that the way he had to turn from his (very intelligent and funny) jokes to the deep feeling of the variation on Paganini. I'm sorry I was never able to see Mr Borges perform, I was too little in the middle of last century. P.S. The publicity was also a gem, I imagine the text was also his.
There was a time when television was educational, had morals, and fostered the (good) American (and world) values and traditions of family, neighborhood love, etc... By the late sixties, our television (and movies) got darker, more explicitly violent, destructive, while the nuclear family was coming apart - a lot of it motivated by advertising money, controversy, love of scandals (Phil, Renaldo, Springer, Lake, etc..., the "saucier", the better!). How sad for our future generations, Ciao, L
Agreed. It really is sad how stupid television (and pop music) has become. In my country they started making television to educate. Today it's seemingly to sedate.
I do not think anyone ought to take themselves too seriously and in my expierience the people who may be justified in doing so are the most modest and vice versa
Be happy that we live in an age where you and I, at opposite ends of this earth, can enjoy an obscure, 70 year old recording of an extraordinary entertainer. We live at the summit of human achievement. The past, the present, and the future is now.
I played it on violin . It’s Schubert Serenade ("Ständchen" nr 4 from Schwanengesang). Here is a link with Perlman playing it on violin. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-widDAQKdlUA.html. There iis also a text to it. 1st verse in German: Leise flehen meine Lieder Durch die Nacht zu dir; In den stillen Hain hernieder, Liebchen, komm zu mir!
‘Man , it’s gone’ is 50s slang for ‘Dude, it rocks.’ Or ‘It’s sick.’ Or ‘It’s cool.’ And stuff... Just in case you didn’t get the joke. Sad to say, much of this erudite musical humour would not connect with the audiences of subsequent decades. No wonder, as the years went on, that Borge effectively dumbed-down his act. All kudos to the kid, but so many child prodigies grow up to be merely talented adults among a host of other talented adults, with nothing ‘extra’ to give them an edge.
FlagDUDE08 The producer of Victor's 1951 TV show said it was very difficult to convince Victor to do this skit among many others. He thought it was because Victor still "thought in Danish" and couldn't always grasp why something was funny. Of course later he used this skit several times. I agree with you, I always found it comical.
@@laurennewberry He improved it, with the guy playing on flute saying he can't play the piano subverting your expectations when he suddenly pulls out a flute.
Question? How many politicians does it take to change a lightbulb? 🤔 Answer-All of them! Because half of them are voting on it, and the other half are vetoing it! 😬😬
My question is if this is a lost episode, then how and where did they find it? Seems to me it would no longer be lost? Inquiring minds want to know! 🤔🤔😸😳📣📢
I personally enjoy comedians past or present today who don't have to use foul language I love dry sense of humor stuff that's what I gravitate to! Forget common sense of humor because that's not even funny to me! 😳😬😂🤔
