You Bet Your Life Outtakes 1960-61, Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2014
- Racy moments from Groucho's quiz show that couldn't be broadcast. They were compiled into "stag reels" for the annual sponsors' conventions. This is part one of a reel taken from shows filmed in 1960-1961.
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I'm 79 now and I used to watch Groucho when I was probably in the 8th or 9th grade. I'm sure a lot of his jokes went over my head, but there's one I will always remember. He was interviewing a gentleman who revealed that he had ten children and Groucho asked him why he had so many kids and the man replied because he loved his wife. Groucho replied "well I love my cigars but I take them out once in awhile".
Groucho never said that line, at least there is no record of it, and Groucho himself has stated he never said it. But even if he had, it would have been edited out of the show before airing.
I heard it too. Just wish they'd put it up on youtube.
Thanks.
I remember that one 😂
He's a real comedian no cursing . We miss you Groucho you were the best.
I have this whole collection on DVD and never tire off Groucho's quick wit. Just these right medicine for these troubled times.
Groucho was a brilliant comedian. So sharp and quick witted. Consider the time that this show aired, He was ahead of his time. Brilliant!
I never realized how his jokes were so full of sexual connotations until today.
@@remessinger Oh, yeah, I think the first joke of his I ever heard (back in 6th grade) was from him talking to a wife and mother of some very large number of kids, and Groucho quips, "Well, I like my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth every once in a while."
What does it mean to be ahead of one's time? Why is that brilliant?
@@Mkundera If I take your questions as literal, not rhetorical, then being ahead of one's time generally means you demonstrate social values that were not mainstream in your era, but later became adopted widely. Usually this is applied to progressive ideas, like valuing a more inclusive society. In that sense, Groucho was not being ahead of his time at all. He was using innuendo in often clever, surprising ways, which delights a certain sense of humor, but there is nothing socially progressive about it. Brilliance is subjective, of course, but I find his fast wit indicative of a sharp mind, though I admit it could just reflect a lifetime of practicing innuendo as a means of entertaining people, so that he had a stable of themes at the ready to draw upon. Actually, if I had to bet, I would bet on that, since I think exceptionally popular entertainers focus ferociously on their craft, at least from the bios I've seen.
@@ZenGeekDad From the perspective of a being a television comedian, talk show or game show host, I would say that Groucho was ahead of his time. Because of his quick wit and his ability to ad-lib and to cunningly shape sexual innuendo and racy content into his act and present in such a subtle way, Groucho was able to get away with material during the 1950s, that rivaled some of the racy content and witty, adult banter of shows like The Newly Wed Game and The Tonight Show in the 1970s.
I'm not saying that Groucho's show equally matched the level of adult humor of those 70s shows, but for a show that spanned the entire decade of the 50s, virtually nobody on television was doing the kind of adult humor that Groucho was getting away with.
Yeah, it wasn't exactly high brow or socially progressive content and it certainly wasn't pushing any real comedy boundaries that the stand up comedy club comedians of the time weren't already knocking down, but as far as the very straight laced 1950s TV shows were concerned, Groucho was about as racy as any comedian on TV could get.
In this way, one could argue that Groucho was ahead of his time or somewhat cutting edge. I would say that his unscripted, improvised, lively banter and interaction with contestants and audiences was also a cut above what the other scripted, cookie cutter shows of the 50s were doing.
You Bet Your Life is still considered to be the first TV show, filmed before a live audience, even though it did not actually air live, because the improvised and adult nature of Groucho's performances, made it necessary to edit the show down from it's longer live version.
One thing is for sure, Groucho was an absolute master at ad-libbing and no one on television in the 50s even came close to touching Groucho in that department. So, was the show really ahead of it's time? Yes and no.
When I was a kid, I waited for each week to watch, Groucho and his quiz show, he was very funny.
Groucho was one of a kind. I can only imagine what he would have been like without the censorship at the time.
Did you catch the "saltpeter" comment at 3:10? Pretty risqué for that era.
The censorship is far worse now. 70 years of progress?!?
it would have ruined the cleverness of his humor
Joy Harmon is so sweet and completely oblivious to Groucho's innuendos. She does realize something's afoot but is unsure how to react in a polite manner.
She looks pissed at the end !! A beautiful young lady ! " your pulling my leg ? " ...that was funny !
Well, she's surely sweet, but not so naive and innocent in these pics from Cool Hand Luke...
www.google.com/search?q=Joy+Harmon++%22Cool+Hand+Luke%22&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ACYBGNRCcoUr4s_dVqQwZRKmMJfqhXdOKw:1575981103832&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZjPeOi6vmAhUDnlkKHYolC-8Q_AUoAXoECAsQAw
From Wikipedia...
Harmon's best-remembered acting roles are as the 30-foot-tall Merrie in Village of the Giants (1965, in which she captures normal-sized Johnny Crawford and suspends him from her bikini top), and as the car-washing Lucille in Cool Hand Luke (1967) with her purportedly 41-22-36. measurements.[1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harmon#Career
From Google images: Joy Harmon, Village of the Giants
www.google.com/search?q=Joy+Harmon+Village+of+the+Giants&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ACYBGNSoHfkiY5SMHL-fxGeWutlWnJcb6A:1575981686308&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYxtakjavmAhUiqlkKHdQ3C-8Q_AUoAXoECBQQAw&biw=1257&bih=644
@@theycallmemisterwheat7118 - Actually, that's a Mary Hartman hairstyle. You are dating yourself with the Raggedy Ann reference, grandpa.
I was about ten years old and I remember watching Groucho on TV.
At that time I thought that he was nasty.
As I watch today's
Best of Grocho, I can't help laughing my mule off. He is funny, and still entertaining nasty.
Love the man and I am glad to have watched his show at a innocent age. Today I can truly appreciate his sense of humor.
Miss you Grocho.
Humour is the best form of intelligence ...And Groucho was the best at his craft his humour stands the test of time ....
Groucho reminds me of my grandpa so much. My Grandpa was extremely quick witted and funny. All of my friends loved him, he’d make us all laugh.
He's so good at keeping the audience "up" when there's a break or lull.
I love the look on Joy's face right at the last second when she gets angry with Graucho.
@Kathryn Foster-martin Seriously, I've never seen someone more sorrier than you. Go get a job or something.
Groucho was a master of ad lib....an amazingly witty man. 😇😜👍
That was delightfully hilarious. Man we have lost so much in this post modernist world. So much genuine wit.
We've lost just about everything that matters and gained a bunch of stuff that's useless.
Great showmen and comedians like Groucho don't exist today, he was really genuinely funny ☺
Today, he could never get away ANY of the stuff he did on the show back then.
...beginning with the smoking!
well, cheap shots at women is not exactly high end humor, so there s a reason why it is like it is today
@@wurzelausc if you knew anything you realize he took cheap shots at everyone…
@@wurzelausc welp there it is ladies and gentlemen the no sense of humor leftist and 6 thumbs up…jeez we deserve to burn…
he didn't get way with this. They are outtakes
Nothing is funnier than an innuendo. By that I mean an Italian suppository.
Stupid.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaqqqqhhh !!!!!
Groucho: How is it you have 18 children? Woman: I love my husband. Groucho: I love my cigars but I take it out of my mouth every now and then!
Rob Jontay -He actually said this on air and it started a total upheaval. He almost lost his "You Bet Your Life" program over this.
@@charlesbishop7583 Today, he would have lost his career and home as he would be sued to high heaven.
Sub Zero - How right, and on point, your are with that statement!
@@EmperorOfChaos Sadly, it's true.
@@charlesbishop7583 i heard him say it and died laughing
I love Groucho Marx. He was more subtle and more entertaining than many comedians before or since. He could work "blue" without seeming to...no swear words...(ok, I like silly humor the best, the sillier it got, the more hilarious it became...topical humor tends to fade with time, but Groucho is timeless)
Most of his ad-libs were not really ad-libs. They were scripted. Do some research if you do not think this is so. This also goes for Johnny Carson's very funny WHO DO YOU TRUST. All scripted. The jokes(ad-libs)were set up before hand, etc. But very funny anyway. Marx and Carson were two masters. Marx was Carson's first guest in 1962.
Hello Paula, How are you doing?
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I don't know how you had the patience to sit through everything the way you did to pull all of those naughty bits out into the public's eye, but I'm sure glad you did. I was 10 in 1960 and fondly remember this show and always think of my grandparents when I watch it. These days I'm all on edge with this Presidential Election Season and your videos are the perfect antidote. Thank you again. Ya gotta love Groucho. Innuendo and out the other.
You're welcome. However I don't deserve nearly so much credit. I didn't compile anything; I merely grabbed these videos from DVD and uploaded them. Glad you enjoyed! :)
Tom Toohey p
I was 9 and watch it with my mom and dad and brother, great show.
It's amazing how much he manages to insinuate, and get away with. On the face of it it's innocent family entertainment, but there's a constant undercurrent of innuendo. The audience is fully aware of the things he's implying, but feel free to laugh because he never actually says it. It's also of note that he was in his 70s here, yet has a mind sharper than most people have in their 20s.
Graham Black with
I saw him in a YT 1969 appearance with Dick Cavett. He actually looked younger than here. how does that happen?
?... undercurrent of innuendo." ...Redundant.
He'd be up on charges today...we have become wimps as a nation.
@@seekermike007 What is a Dick Cavett ?
Groucho was at his most tongue in cheek in these outtakes. A very funny ad-lib man at his best. PS the blonde at the end was Joy Harmon from Cool Hand Luke.
yup, I recognized Joy Harmon right away.
He was one of a kind... lol lol Thanks for posting this :)
nickums69 . so is joy Harmon . no wemon of Holley woods wemon are all same old whores of Babylon of course today's atrestress are transgender
Now I know why Marion Cunningham didn't want little Joanie to stay up to watch Groucho :)
I remember that episode
Wow, the innuendos are hilarious.
Women of the sixties/fifties had so much poise and elegance.
Very true, real women back then.
And having to deal with constant, unsolicited sexual advances from men with a smile.
That better?
A gal has to have poise and elegance to be able to stand up to Groucho Marx, that's for sure.
The blond girl is gorgeous!
Joy Harmon. The love of my life.
Ton Klappe I think she became a reg on the show...
They all are😜
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Geo Mondiale this
Who would have thought that 2016 is more prude than 1960.
Exactly.
Marko Petkov Its not more prude than back years ago.My mom didn't even know what sex was even at the age of a teenager because no one talked about it back then.Nowadays I hear 7-8 years talk about wanting to bang someone and they have cellphones and Visa cards.which is Very weird and creepy to me because they don't seem like kids anymore and they have no discipline and walk all over their parents because that stupid law you can't spank them.The world goes to extremes all the time,there is no happy medium anywhere.
1960 Democrats under Kennedy were more Nationalist or just expelled from the Party and their authority de-facto destroyed. The Sexual Liberation/ Revolution, which, started the change in women from feminine to rights warrior freaks. Up until Blair came to power in 1997. Britain was largely Britain, America largely America until Clinton a couples of years prior to Blairism or New Labour. Born in the 1980's or early and you could watch it all unfolding if you was open and awake, I was not until 2016. The I watched American and British Comedy Classics, like Mr. Marx, like On the Buses, Open All Hours, Only Fools and Horses, Minder, the last in my view even if crass was Married with Children and the song wrote by Groucho friend Sammy Khun.
It s not more prude, it's more censored. Democracy is long gone.
That was a more innocent time. All that led to the metoo movement.
I can't help noticing that both men and women were far more well-spoken, engaging and decorous back then than those today.
These were the time when people can make jokes, people laugh, and then move on with their life. People understood it was for laughs, now everything is consider offensive.
Yawn
What exactly do you mean by that accusation?
Ahhh…the good old days. Can you imagine him on todays roasts. He’s great!
My mother never missed his show. RIP Groucho.
@3:11: *"He's full of saltpeter, he can't hardly get up."* wink, wink - nudge, nudge...
haha. Would be lost on most everyone nowadays but that was brilliant
Great video! Classic, comedic genius Groucho Marx! I loved "You Bet Your Life" when I was just a little girl! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Hello, How are you doing?
I watched this show right from day one. Groucho did no rehearsing of anything. Right off the cuff.
"There's a sailor who can't get up...full of saltpeter..."
The US and British navies would put saltpeter in the food to prevent sailors from getting erections. That way, they wouldn't be hooking up on the "poop deck".
Boy, I was born just a bit too late in 62 cause the women back then were just sooo hot.
I don't know about more 'hot' but women used to be more conscious about being feminine. And back then it wasn't shameful to be feminine.
True on both counts. Nowadays, there's more ideology than id.
Agreed randy way hotter
@Kathryn Foster-martin jeeezus. I have heard about triggered feminazis but I have never actually seen one take offence at an ancient piece of comedic theater. It is to mans detriment that comedy has been washed clean by the hateful souls in the PC camp.
Kathryn wishes some guy would talk to her like that.
Groucho is utterly,irrespressibly charming!
"Let's restore innocence to Becoming!"
~ Nietzsche
The last girl just beautiful and so nervous poor thing
takes me back to those care free days .
Would be in her 80s now
David..agree..I like the guests he has on..not so much him as I've noticed he can be rude n condescending quite often...thinking it will come off as a joke...they're anything but jokes! Yes, this young lady was a sweetheart and I feel he was being disrespectful!
@@darlenewells3309 ; agreed , but u have to set yourself back in time. Remember this was in the 50's. I came to Pasadena California in 1956. Didn't have a TV in Germany or these kind of programs . Still amusing to watch now that I'm back and retired in Germany .
@@JPER-cv2lq yep, good ole days.
The best is the last, at 5.16. When I moved to LA in 1974 this show was being re-run late in the evening, maybe 10pm, perhaps on channel 5 or 11. I watched them all.
"I like my cigars too...but sometimes I take them out!"
Classic, we'll wind her up together. Where is the new Groucho?? One of a kind. Miss this wit.
very sharp mind, and funny.
tomitstube you need glasses
Such mild stuff today but not back then. Groucho was a master at this type humor.
Except for the beauty of of the ladies,
65yr old comments & standards carry no weight from these golden years of television
Women were all natural and very beautiful back then. I loved their dresses and Beehive hairdues
Beehive hairdos are not "natural." There was a lot of hairspray and wired undergarments that went into looking as polished as these women.
But natural it ain't.
women werent natural back then. they were forced these beauty standards and wore heavy loads of makeup and tight clothing to be appealing to men so that they had some so called life. if i was a women in those times i think id either kill myself or live in the nature like a hermit.
but im a guy so. but still its wrong women were treated the way they were.
also women are not objects. so please treat them with respect
vincentvangogodancer No kidding! I was more on the line of plastic surgery plastic women today, fat/obese make-up less women today in stretch/sweat pants! Yuk! A woman should look beautiful, she's a woman not a man. Smh
Oscars Exotic Animals You must be a obese make-up less woman in sweat pants! Barf!! Women should look beautiful and in her BMI not like American women today! I been to Europe 7 times and most there look like a woman not a man! Smh
everyone here keeps mentioning joy harmon but the real beauty here is at 3:55. wish i knew her name.
The tall dark haired one? I agree.
Groucho was one of the funniest guys around. He could make you laugh just making a face. Plus the whole innuendo thing. Hilarious.
It probably was commented on, but that second woman was on this show more than once with different storylines
Many guests were actors, it was just a show, as "Real" as our "Reality" shows now.
Ole man Groucho. What a good one!
How can we turn back the clock and go back to that country, these women, those men and old good humor. No PC BS, no women wanna be just like men and men wanna be and dressed like women and other nonsense.
the 38 prudes who gave this a thumbs down probably left negative comments, and probably think "SNL" is actually funny. This show ran for a long time, was nominated for seven (7) Emmy's, was in the top 10 shows for 7 of its 11 seasons, which incidentally had roughly 39 episodes per season back then, unlike today's shows that call ten episodes a "season". Many successful stars got exposure on these game shows back in the day. In addition, "YBYL" was deliberately created to showcase Groucho's ad-libbing talents. The game show contest element was more secondary.
Probably think SNL is funny?
I'd like to see a statistic justifying that assertion.
For the record, SNL is the longest-running series in history (45 years), and has racked 65 Primetime Emmy Awards, 3 Peabody Awards, 3 Writers Guild of America Awards, and more.
Not to mention "many successful stars got exposure" on SNL.
Moving forward, be wary of how you measure success. While I too find SNL to be a waste of time: funny or not, SNL just wiped the field.
The blonde girl is Joy Harmon. You know...Like Almond Joy? She was a knockout back in the day.
Loved the way Joy Harmon cuts him with a glance when he teases her, as at the very end.
That first blonde was ditzy. Love it!
Groucho had the quick and sharp wit that few could equal.
A great comedian. Such a quick wit.
George used to introduce him as "the one, the only, Groucho." Couldn't have been more accurate.
after all the years Groucho is still funny
Love this tv show and always have!
That last girl, l believe, was Joy Harmon. An actress who was on some 1960's shows. Does anyone else remember her?
One of a kind...Great personality
Groucho would have a blast on t.v. today!!!
The politically correct crowd would have a fit and try to drive him off the air.
"The two funniest words in the English language: Groucho Marx." (Alan King)
The "Me Too" crowd would NUKE Groucho today.
"Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille"
When George Kennedy says in Cool Hand Luke about Joy Harmon's blouse, "Lord pop that safety pin!"
No replacement ever for the great Groucho!,
Grouch was an old player on the ladies I see. He was definitely throwing hints at them. He was smooth with the ladies for sure!
Groucho had his hands on marylin monroe and Jayne mansfield
"Could I pinch your pennies sometime?" - HAHA.
sexual innuendo is always good for giggles. He was the best
@Kathryn Foster-martin Grow up.
This girl looks much like one of the Mandrell family
(Barbara Mandrell ‘s sister ?)
Hello Patti, How are you doing?
This was hilarious!
After Joy left someone asked Groucho who she was ? GROUCHO said "Oh she is my Aunty" 😋 The fella said " I wish I had an Aunty that looked like that" 😍 and Groucho said "Well take that up with your Uncle " 🤣😂😆
I love how any time there's an old tv show on RUclips you always get comments like "back when times were more innocent" or "back when they didn't have to use bad language or talk about sex"...Groucho used a helluva lot of innuendo. He said a whole lot by dancing around the censors of that era. But it was all right there
Just brilliant!
3:27 she looks like Liz Taylor
Having interviewed them beforehand, the producers would feed the contestants certain lines or ask them to relate particular stories. Joy Harmon (5:17) got confused between what she was advised to say and how Groucho was responding. (Part of her 'taken-back' response was that Groucho always tried to impress the pretty ones; a partial reflection from long ago in trying to win the attention of his mother, who was super fond of Chico.)
Groucho would look offstage to messages displayed on a projector (6:20 and 6:44) to be prompted what questions to ask, without knowing what had been planned, in order to retain some spontaneity.
Groucho later used Joy for another show after UBYL.
One of the producers was asked years later whether UBYL was ad-libbed or scripted, to which he replied 'yes', meaning both.
Witty man!
Lady’s brows reverted back 60 years.
The last girl is Joy Harmon who was in the movie, “Cool Hand Luke”.
Groucho hired her to be on his show, “Tell It To Groucho”.
That last girl was beautiful but completely baffled. She eventually found her way into an iconic movie scene in 1967, playing "Lucille," who makes the entire chain-gang salivate by washing her car in "Cool Hand Luke." No dialogue and no loss.
The blonde in the black dress at the end. Good lord is she beautiful.
I believe she was the car wash girl in the movie Cool Hand Luke
The blonde gives groucho the evil eye
Compare this classic TV show with the crap on the Boob Tube today. First of all, Groucho is funny as hell and he's ad-libbing. Not one sitcom in the history of television can favorably compare, each with their own cadre of one-line "joke" writers. Notice his humor completely lacks political correctness. This helps tremendously with making his jokes laugh-out-loud funny. Lastly, Groucho smoked a cigar throughout every show. Today he would be regarded as a social pariah and would not be allowed to smoke on the air. Well, it used to be a free country, over half a century ago.
I can only name one which is off the air and that was craig Ferguson
Plus groucho had excellent taste sadly i say had you are missed jullian marx
I hear every one laughing on these new sitcoms and i say whats so funny? Now groucho he was funny just hated what happened to him sad ending to a funny guy
Groucho was far above genius.
The blonde at the end is Joy Harmon the girl in Cool Hand Luke that Dragline, George Kennedy called Lucille.
wow ! women sure looked a lot better back then ! they were all pretty much gorgeous .
That’s why she is on the show and not in the audience. There were plenty of ordinary folk too.
@@daytripperhd , sure , what I mean is the ones at the top that they call good lookin today don't come close to the run of the mill game show picks back then
Bob Saturday I agree.
Outstanding
I took one look at the last blonde and immediately thought "I'll bet that's the car wash girl from "Cool Hand Luke". And she is!!!! Joy Patricia Harmon
The first woman contestant radiates sophistication combined with a sultry sexuality. In my opinion she beats Liz Taylor in the looks and charisma stakes. @1:46 she lobbies back a repost “Promise?” with perfect timing and a subtle flirtatious smile. Also, her hair, dress and comportment are classy. I wonder what happened to her; she could easily have been a star.
At 1:18; Old Gold: the "Golden Age of Freedom" and pure entertainment.
The blonde is very attractive, so naive or smart like a fox and Groucho had wonderful lines, truly a great comedian
There were a number of (then) unknown actors who appeared as guests on "You Bet Your Life". One of the contestants was Phyllis Diller.
cut to 3:35 for a strikingly beautiful contestant.
Do you not recognize Joy Harmon the "carwash girl with the great big "headlights" from cool Hand Luke!!!!!! she's the blonde.
What a change from that shy beauty to a comfortable beauty in the spotlight. I didn't even recognize her.
back when women were beautiful, thin and deliciously innocent
Woodstock was only, even less than 9 years later.
@@miltonwelch4177
Yep, what happened to the baby boomers?
Innocent is the only one of those things that's missing from modern girls. What a loss.
They weren't any more innocent, the mores of the time just demanded that they pretend to be to placate insecure douchebags like you who are threatened by assertive women. That you sad old farts are losing your grip on society can only be a good thing. Now, tell your caretaker to tuck you in.
@@aliaschannel8877 Haha. I'm a man, not a woman. I'm just glad women are liberated because, unlike you, I'm attracted to strong women, not terrified of them. Jesus, grow a pair of balls, you fucking milksop.
The old maid joke is so Groucho.