You Bet Your Life #56-21 Farmer's wife tries to tell a joke (Secret word 'Dollar', Feb 14, 1957) 

came across this by accident and lord im an addict groucho doesnt have to say a thing its the look

The most entertaining and funniest show available in 1957, and it still has that accolade in 2024! This has to be something for the ‘Guinness book’!

I LOVED the first female contestant! When she told that story and got so worked-up that she even broke her own pearl necklace lol! And we will all forever wonder just what the end of that story was! 👀

Maybe a miracle will happen, and lost segments will somehow show up. Can't get enough of YBYL! Thanks for the posts.......

The lady telling the joke kept the PTA people in stitches too, I bet !

Hilarious! Groucho always gives me a laugh! Genius

The lady who lived on a ranch was decades ahead of her time. Self-sufficient.

2:46 No one gonna mention his flawless pronunciation?!?!

This is back when people actually knew things.

This holds up so well better than the shit on tv today.

Groucho Marx & George Fenneman made such an outstanding team! George would set 'em up and Groucho would knock 'em out of the park!

Groucho stated that he got $16,000 a week to host the show. That's the equivalent of someone getting $155,000 per week today.

She was ahead of her time regarding growing your own food.

I made up the ending of the joke.... I laughed so hard I forgot.????😝😘🤔🤦

He says goodbye in Italian to a Greek lady. But it's still funny...

I didn't think even Rand McNally knew that! 😂

Thanks to all you people that are uploading these. This show was on constantly through the 1990's. I did hear the reason its not on anymore is the owners want too much cash for it. Sad

I believe the rest of the joke goes..So the next day they got together sat down waiting for the bus one of the two men had brought a dog but the dog was missing a nose. The man looks at it and says hey your dog is missing a nose how does he smell? The other man replys...terrible

Astonishing that John W. Hughes knew so much about American cities yet so little of English literature.

Bill Cosby hosted the revival of this show in the 1980's, and he did a fair job as host. Sometimes, though, it's hard to capture the magic twice. There was but one Groucho, and the atmosphere of this show was hard to duplicate. Sometimes all the ingredients come together at the right time and place. That was definitely the case with "You Bet Your Life!"

The best wit ever recorded...

I watch the show first, then read the episode notes and comments. As soon as I saw the spelling, I suspected it was the same John Barbour who was producer and host of "Real People" and a long list of other accomplishments in the field of entertainment. I didn't recognize him at first because he filled out a bit as he matured, not unusual for a man. And it was 22 years between this episode and Real People. I remembered him as very dry. I didn't realize he was so controversial at other points of his career. John Barbour is featured in this segment of Real People in 1980. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gXhDRFkA9q0.html I read from a few sources that he moved to LA from Canada in the early 60's, but this is 1957 and he had a job in Hollywood, so I wonder if he was going back and forth between countries early in his career, wherever the best opportunity presented itself. Another mystery from the show. If John Hughes identified as a lecturer, wouldn't it be natural to ask what subject he lectured about? Left on the cutting room floor perhaps? I couldn't dig up anything else about him on the Internet. No one can say that Norma Hacker didn't warn Groucho. And I think there were two other show highlights: one relating to the secret word and the other to the Barbours and the wheel spin. Just remember that John Barbour had a comedy act for much of his career. And I have to say that you must get very strong arms from waitressing. Wow! I think that was the hardest I ever saw it spun. It looked like it would never stop.

Pies. Now they’re all manufactured, not homemade as it was in those days.

wow that woman, who tells the joke, is 100% my copy

I don't know if he wasn't feeling well or what, but Groucho didn't seem very "into" this episode. Kinda extra grouchy. lol

I like Norma hacker she's great..i laughed with her

The Welshman's saying the name of the town in Wales, which not even English or Scottish people can pronounce, made me recall that there is a town in Wales whose name contains four consecutive "L's".

Pie o neer, great Groucho quip

Mr. Hughes has a typically gorgeous Welsh voice.

Back in the day the contestants were more knowledgeable in all categories than people are today 😷

🤣Pie-o-neer . . You have to have a lot of crust to make a statement like that . .

That $300.00 which the American man and his Greek wife were gifted in '57 would be the equivalent to over $2,492.00 in 2021! 👀

"Pie-oneer"

The show has been on almost 10 years and the cameraman (or director) still can’t get the guy speaking on camera at 11:00.

This was on my birthday (February 14th) although I wasn’t born yet!

17m28s G: "Arrivederci" ... he speaks fluent Greek.

15m25s she shakes her hands like there are ants crawling on them.

I haven't slept for weeks wondering what the 2 guys on the bus did next ... any takers for a punch line?

Amazing way back then this women and her family bought 5 acres to be self sustaining cool

It's hard to believe that woman could be self-sufficient.😃😄😅😂

I've done some googling, and can't find it...does anyone know the end of the joke??

The original big fat Greek Wedding.

Love grouchy lol

Groucho said some risque things that wouldn't go over in today's PC world. A different world we live in today. One of the funniest was when he had a man on the show who was father to 10 kids. Groucho asked why he had so many kids and the guy said because I like kids. Groucho said...well I like cigars too but I take em out of my mouth once in a while. The audience roared. They couldn't do beeps because it was on kineoscope.

Groucho the "American classics have ALL gone LGBTQ on us. You'd not recognize the classics! Tips is still there (My Restaurant Tips)

Why does John Barbour lie and tell Groucho he's from Los Angeles? He's from Canada and didn't move to LA until the early 60s. He was born and raised in Toronto.

Does anyone know the joke at 6:30 ? I'd love to know what's so funny.

John W. Hughs is a really fast talker

Greeks bearing gifts...

IT'S ABOUT TWO MEN.........

😢😮😮

The capital of Columbia was asked in an earlier show.

Do you know that Jon 19:20

Some of the guests were very interesting but I wished Groucho not have interrupted so often.

Grouch & George were not the best of friends ..btw, grouch was a condescending chauvinistic person

It appears that the Black Knight was really Black when she kissed him, hence all the uproar.....looks like they switch the Knight and they opened his helmet again. If you compare the two images you can see the segment was spliced in........Our history...