WML - Larry French, The Chicken Plucker - 12/07/1958

[mf2101]

She says "he has been defeathered" at 7.38

[khtx]

Sorry my english seems not to be very good but doesn´t mean inoculated and vaccinated the same?

[quizmaster85]

@khtx Inoculation is putting a vaccine into an animal's body, so it's roughly the same.

[007InMiami]

Did Bennett refer to him as Mr. France?

[soulierinvestments]

Thanx for posting, another fine example of what made WML great.

I blame Pat Boone for losing this game. He sang beautifully; he enjoyed big success in this period, but talk about difficulties asking one question after another.

Arlene comes THAT close ( 7:35 ) to getting it and tosses it way.

Snakes. Ducks. Dead. Vaccinated . Soup. LOL

[mgushulak]

Piano lessons. Haw!!

[rockingdylan]

8:10-8:12

lol look at john

[weatdamal]

Thank you seafree!

[allegrazie]

Oh, dear.

[saraismyname]

Arlene is always hilarious! ;D so witty!

[BethBetteJulie]

'Well I have a very broad body'

Quite the opposite Arlene!

She is so quick, gotta love her :)

[Fenhalls]

Many thanks for posting this seafree. I really do enjoy these non-celebrity WML clips.

[mikka2005]

@Fenhalls The non-celebrity ones are my favourite. Somehow they just come out a whole lot funnier :)

[Fenhalls]

Not just another pretty face. He possessed a pleasant singing voice and achieved rather a lot of success in his chosen field (he was earning $750, 000 in the late 1950s - a huge sum for those days).

[Fenhalls]

Reading his bio at Wikipedia, it also seems that he is a bit of a nutcase. An example: "In early 2007, Boone wrote two articles claiming that the theory of evolution is an "absurd," "nonsensical" "bankrupt false religion." He later wrote an editorial in the form of a fairy tale where a young Prince Charming was seduced by a dwarf, got AIDS, and then overdosed."

[soulierinvestments]

Great singing voice. Great voice for years.

[gottamatch]

Did I miss something? Who has a great singing voice?

[soulierinvestments]

Pat Boone.  I made that comment when Fenhall and I discussed Pat Boone.

[allegrazie]

Fenhalls, meaning no disrespect to you, I feel I must gently remind you that income does not necessarily provide an accurate indicator of intelligence.

[Fenhalls]

Perhaps not (I stress the "perhaps" because in most instances it does suggest the individual is possessed of at least a certain type of high intelligence, although no doubt it is a great comfort to the poor and ne'er-do-wells to think otherwise), but it is indicative of a rather successful career and adds weight to my contention that he was more than just a pretty face.

[Fenhalls]

Also, the notion that because a guest panelist didn't play the game very well, he or she must have been an idiot is plain absurd. The resident panelists had had years to hone their skills.

[ijustwanttosing]

Do you know when this episode was aired?

I ask because it made me think of the hilarious episode from the 5th of October 1958:

Bennett Cerf asked a sheep shearer if she "plucked sheep" - which obviously made the entire theatre howl with laughter :D

I wonder if that is what he's referring to at 6.08...

[soulierinvestments]

at 6:08 Cerf does indeed refer to the Sheep plucking incident. This episode was broadcast a few months later, early 1959.

[seafree]

I am trying to get all of my clips updated with the original air dates, this one is now done.

[Deby961]

Im interested in getting a copy of this clip. Larry French is my dads brother. He has never seen this clip before. We just found it on here today. Larry was killed in a car accident many years ago.

[gabsylv]

@Deby961 Your post makes it sound like Larry's corpse is in your house! (No disrespect)

[calihartley2010]

@Deby961 Sorry about your uncle. He did work hard to put himself through school.