Burl Ives hosts Hollywood Palace (4 of 5)

[mrx438]

his mouth is moving!

[Skullbrothers3]

times like this...i wish he was here for my generation

[Diogenes1360]

After watching this, and I'm 50, I believe in Santa Claus, all over again.

[TheStanbabe]

What a looker! Ms.Bergen..you're funnier here than you are on your sit com"Murphy Brown".

[Xzav1]

Daughter! wow it's never too late I guess.

[mkworkman]

8:40 YouTube video: Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy; at 4:10 Candice Bergen (Edgar Bergen's daughter, then 18-years-old) appears in a skit with her father.

February 16, 1903: birth of Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978).

[missbiancamoon]

Imagine having edgar as a father and charlie as a brother. what a hoot!

[BFLProductions100]

@missbiancamoon a hoot realy were in 2010 not 1444

[Jcolinsol]

@missbiancamoon

A terrifying, childhood traumatizing, hoot.

[tomservo56954]

@Jcolinsol If you see my comment, there were issues but clearly nothing so traumatic that it didn't keep Candice from having her own identity, completely separate from her father.

[tomservo56954]

@missbiancamoon Candice has said there were times she felt resentful toward her wooden "siblings".

[GreenBeret7259]

oooooohhhhhhhhh...... whats the matter?  gas problem?

[CALCLUBFIRE]

"Just my luck she had to be my sister". There is nothing better than these old clips.

[stewiedg97]

kissed a pese of wood lol

[jazz1929]

Great clip! Bergen was a genius.

[russocomedy]

Bergen's transitions, flawless, present to the past then back again. Is Charlie a real person? The question never comes up. There is no implied question as to one man in duality mode...Batman's Scarface villain, Dead Of Night, Anthony Hopkin's character in Magic. The real magic here occurs because it is left to the audience to assume "what if" while Bergen presents the possibility of 'make believe and allows the audience's imagination to play with the possibility. Thus Charlie...comes alive!

[peterack]

I saw them live in the late 70's and they did the part of the act seen here...where they listened to old broadcasts on the radio...it was the worse part of the act - I did not want to hear old stuff, I wanted to see them in the present. Thankfully the rest of that act, and a skit they did later were very funny!

[scorps666]

Bergen and McCarthy were genius. Throw in Mortimer Snerd and you have comic genius. The old radio shows are so funny. Especially when W.C. Fields is involved.

[royalfootballman]

i have a charlie mccarthy dummy. check out my vids

[DumbassFailingVideos]

I have a Charlie McCarthy puppet too! :D

[harmonyslily]

he isn't transing he is tooting3

[vic2497]

i love old fashion acts

[giraffepoo]

I love these old acts!

[slyrez]

lolve charlie

[wencesfan]

This is such a GREAT clip!!!! Thanks for sharing this!!

[etraig]

wow! this was cool.

[intruderart]

I JUST realized. The pretty girl is CANDICE BERGEN!!! How cool is THAT?

[tomservo56954]

@intruderart I just stumbled across a 1962 episode of BACHELOR FATHER where Edgar and wife Frances appear, but not Candice.

[intruderart]

This is SO GREAT! I LOVE watching Bergen and Mccarthy. Now I have to find some with Effie Klinker, my personal favorite.

[kweer58]

This clip is so terrific. I had heard the radio broadcasts, but I was not as familiar with the visual presentation. The audio clip with W.C. Fields is hysterical. Thank you for sharing.

[russocomedy]

Master of the art form...unquestionably the originator of modern comic ventriloquism as we know it. More than mastery of the art is the personality of Edgar Bergen. The Hollywood Palace was the Ed Sullivan show west, a bit more upscale with Nick Vanoff as one of the producers.

[muaythaiworld]

Classic...thanks for posting this video :)