What's My Line? Uninvited guest

[SonjaHenieFilmFan]

Is that Dennis Day of the Jack Benny Show??

[Tre404]

@SonjaHenieFilmFan..... The voice was awfully similar, huh? Too skinny to be Dennis, though.

[SonjaHenieFilmFan]

@Tre404 Ah...I didn't know. Thanks and Merry Christmas!! :D 

[xanos4225]

If only shows today were all live like they were back then. Shit would be crazy!

[fairyfellermaster]

Which is why they never found who he was

[fairyfellermaster]

My guess is someone from our time traveled back in time just to do pull this stunt cos that's definitely something that didn't happen in those days.

[Glitt3rbab3]

Must be that marble guy's (who put the cream in Rupert Murdoch's face when he was on trial) great grandfather!

[LaFamiliaWJ]

I Made it for Mother's day

[orhugs]

"Everything happens on television" um.. not anymore, now everysingle little thing you see on TV has been screened, and planned. Even live TV it's always a few seconds late and they filter :(

[Kickerinthehead]

Successful Troll was successful.

[ClassicShowbiz]

he totally seemed like an old timey character actor. Someone who could've actually been on the Berle show!

[Nerdsansintelligence]

He has a ponytail!

[a07002]

He looked and sounded a little like Arnold Stang.

[auntbecky]

@a07002 I was just thinking the same thing

[slaveyMe]

wow, this aired 2 days after my birthday.  what a pisser.

[polkadotpolka123]

it sounded like to me, 'i say! your mother's gay!'

but i sure it wasnt lol :D

[duffh]

Was that Woody Allen?

[Lockbar]

At least the guy had his clothes on. In 1974 he would have been naked.

[TheRandomJenShow]

The person below me is speaking of Tommy Cooper.

[iainr222]

The biggest risk of live tv is literally dying during an act. It happened to a legendary British comic in the early 1980's. I wont name him as some insensitive person has posted it on You Tube.

[calihartley2010]

@iainr222 well send em a message and tell me whom. I would like to know.

[michelformika]

Your mothers safe or sick?

[tracytcb111111111111]

haha the look on milton berles face so funny

[cknudsen]

"My agent" was brilliant? Oh, jeesh.

[carnisero43]

Little known fact: Uncle Miltie was a big time gambler. He owed money to a bookie from the Bronx named Joey Palms. Now Burl was behind on his payments and assured Joey he'd get his money by Mother's day. This was Joey Palms little way of saying: Where's my money! Look at Berle's face when he clearly understands what it means.

[filmidioten]

Hahaha brilliant response by Berle!

[hankaaron1961]

I just read about this episode on a Google News archive. Afterwards, the fellow was taken to Bellvue for observations (as Barney Miller would say)

[5star555555555]

@hankaaron1961 link?

[hankaaron1961]

@5star555555555 YouTube does not allow hypertext links. But if you go to google and type "what's my line milton berle" it article should come up. It will have the headline "New Line Added to Television What's My line". The article was written May 8, 1959 in the Sarasota Journal.

[Bobstew68]

Ah, the passage of heckling into trolling in its infancy.

[Hadeydeppio]

i love the way the host looks at that lunatic and turns around to watch him hahaha

[henrygrove100]

Bennet looks good in this clip.

[elfgirl3]

It looked alot like the actor who played Dennis the Menace's dad in the original series...

[draculascoffin]

Milton Berle played it well, saying its my agent !!

[cardona89]

he says something in spanish, but first, I am not sure. Sounds like: "I've waited, COMO ANDA USTED??" which means "how are you doing?" does someone agree??

[MasterEled]

@cardona89 To me it sounds like "I made it, for mother's day!"

[MasterEled]

@cardona89 Makes sense, it was May 10th.

[Dodger753]

I love this. What a hero, who is this bloke?

[rickyfan3956]

Ha, that dude from the audience looked and sounded like a young Woody Allen!  I wouldn't put it past him, either!

[cirosuperiore]

that's why they dont have live shows anymore...can you imagine if that guy stabbed or killed someone on the show...the whole country would see it...how great would that have been

[boydno]

someone's 15 seconds of fame!?

[OriginalAlphathewolf]

@boydno 15 seconds? This was filmed in the 50's. That 15 seconds had accumulated into at the least 40 years.

[godchildzor]

Even the stage crashers had class.

[tomkes100]

Yes Shawdaman that 1962 episode was some jerk promoting a dating service 7 Gil Fates escorted the bum off the live tv set. guess theres no law against selling a product on tv ha ha lol. This is the greatest panal tv show ever 17 glorious years & UNCLE MILTIE .All we need now is GROUCHO from 1959. oh i forget we got em here in a clip TOMKES tv film historian my credentials & my card please

[mysticx0]

definitely Arnold Stang

[ShawDAMAN]

there was at least one other episode where someone intruded like that... I remember a big burly guy in a suit coming on and seemingly trying to advertise something. he was promptly ushered away... ;P

[tatertotter808]

I waited for Mother's Day? Is that what he said?

[Monstermack40]

He said I made it for mother's day. He sounds like Arnold Stang

[oOZePirateOo]

Love the fact he skips away, and john's like wtf.

[tommyboy6494]

do you bogart? you're VULGAR!!!

[ValeriaZysman]

It sounds like "I've waited, ¿cómo anda usted?" ("How are you?" in Spanish).

[tomkes100]

duplants HE DDNT GIVE MILTON SNYTHING he merely shook his hand that D... fool who interuptted the greatest panal show EVER .i love this show,have 500 episodes of it on vhs. Milton was great. i knew the panal post 67 Im s tv film historian with my website in tv film&stars of yesteyear, i hhad knoen easily 900 performers in this buisness 1964-. this SHOW WAS GREAT fir 17 years. WE need better quality more classy shows in 2009. Thanks. TOMK the answerman. Hes not ARNOLD STANG .He has more class.

[Croonr1]

Looked like Arnold Stang to me.

[duplants]

He gave something to Milton Berle--what was it? I must know!

[docmoondog]

"...yet, it would be nearly two more decades until the art of streaking would be perfected. It was simply missing that one...elusive...element..."

[damone77]

There was one time, it was posted here, where the intruder had to be physically removed from the set!

[FritzOmnibus]

It's me. I'm a time traveler and i did this to prove something that I will announce shortly.

[Gondring]

Three words.

[chaoscleaner]

@FritzOmnibus  That "time is "simultaneous" I think Albert alrady beat you to it.

[Lennon4life1968]

@FritzOmnibus ..Hey McFly..your shoelaces are undone..lol

[tusepagliacco]

@FritzOmnibus lol

[VelAmi19]

It's funny that the cameraman zoomed out when he came xD

[ebutemetube]

Was that a Masonic handshake?

[789trebor]

I'd like to know who that guy was too! Everyone seemed in shock but Berle still came up with a good line!

[lucy3142]

lol. "My Agent"

lol. But seriously, that guy's probably gone now, and I really wanna know who he was!!!!

[jackmehoffer68]

so that's where ppl got the idea to run on the field at sporting events!!!!

[brougham89]

No. Berle didnt know who that man was. Just before the clip ended he asked "whos he?"

[DerAdventurer]

Live television is the most awesome thing!

XD

[oywidapoodles]

Weird!

[Eflatmajor09]

That is really scary!... but kinda funny how people from the audience could do that!... nowadays there's too much security! :0

[Jackalofdeath]

@Eflatmajor09 no it still happens, just they edit it out

[chaoticstar16]

kinda scary..lol..much more when i read the info that they didnt find out who the man was.

[immutabledude]

The shock in the background was probably the creepiest part.

[THEHUNGRYVEGETARIAN]

Something tells me that Berle knew about that surprise, we all know that he would do anything for a laugh

[joshstoph]

Milton was quick on his feet with his "agent" line, wasn't he? Did the man say something like "Mother's Day?"

[ExtremeProductionsTV]

It sounded to me kind of like, "I made it, I'm on the stage."

[MargotVoguey]

It says in the description that he said "I made it, for Mother's Day", but I can't be sure.

[brewcrew01984]

Sounds more like "I WAITED for mothers day"...

[soulierinvestments]

0:06 -- Daly looks pretty stunned, but trust Milton Berle, who had a quick comedy mind and adlibbed his way through more than his share of live TV problems, to come up with a great line.

The voice at ( 0:06 ) belongs to guest panelist Eammon Andrews, BBC reporter who hosted the UK version of WML.

[soulierinvestments]

GSN broadcast this episode in February 2009. This episode featured

a very young, very charming, very talkative Governor of Oklahoma

and a screamingly funny game involving a man who worked as a buyer of maternity clothing.

If memory serves me, Gil Fates wrote of this incident --

Fates noticed someone moving on the stage. Stagehands made occasional unscheduled WML appearances, but this person moved too purposefully to be a stage hand. As we see, he did have a purpose in mind.

[swampzoid]

had that happened 10 years later, it would've been a streeker.

[MJ0428]

haha yep

[tinkwantspeace]

I just lol'd alll over myself.

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

There's always one!

LMBO!!!

[AventuraLuver]

Everything happens on television, it's wonderful.

[Gnillob802]

This was Dr. Steven Ray. After a few more attempts at different public venues with different wardrobes it was discovered that running nude would get the desired response from the audience. This however is still a wonderful archive of the first man to streak on public television.

[bitterchew]

maybe the mysterious trespasser's identity could be found in a newspaper archive from that date

[pasfresh123]

Did you notice the woman who shouted "get off!"

[Jettox]

Does anyone have Milton Berle's full mystery guest bit? This show is incredible.

[xABitTooGorgeousx]

LOL!!

LEGENDARY STUFF! xD

[5inBoca]

Great but why not show more before and after? These old shows have a much greater value than I have yet to be able to express.

[velvetsnape]

Lmao! Wow...

[wmbrown6]

Also notice that this show was the only one (among extant "WML?" episodes) where Mr. Daly used his ABC News sign-off, "Good night, and a good tomorrow," which I swear could've been the basis for the "Weekend Update" sign-off "Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow" (which actually was first used at the end of the fake newscast in the 1974 film "The Groove Tube").

[ClassicShowbiz]

It was an Arnold Stang look-a-like.

[jehobden]

He looked a bit like Woody Allen to me. :)

[luvthoseclips]

when it comes to total strangers, Milton's first response was always, "my agent"!

[trent100100]

this would of been a lot more scary today

[mark321123]

not really

[NJkid67]

God Bless Milton Berle. Such a pro. Showing how years and years of hard work of comedy can come when you need it on a drop of a dime, at the most importune time.

[whammy850]

That, friends, is the beauty of live television.

[sallyannlady]

I thought it was Woody Allen.

[Harriyama]

rofl

[leela145]

he does :)

[STU676]

classic,,,,great look on daly's face

[Umlaani]

I thought it was someone's joke because Milton Berle was often in drag.

[Lava1964]

Studio security has come a long way since 1959.

[kirkba]

I believe he said, "I made it, for Mother's Day." Maybe running on the set was his gift to his mother. BTW, I always thought he looked a bit like Steve Allen.

[xHeavyMetalPapillonx]

@kirkba See, I thought he looked a bit like Groucho Marx. Haha! Yeah, I figure it was some kind of shout-out to his mother (either running on the set or shaking Milton Berle's hand). Nice of him to get out of the way so quickly so the show could go on, though! ;)

[cknudsen]

@kirkba Nope. Arnold Stang, he was in Mad, Mad World with Milton.

[AND1NBA]

What did the guy say when he ran off? It sounded like 'mothers day'.

[marbleann]

Berle sure handled that well, his agent lol It did look like Groucho Marx or a real young Woody Allen.

[dijeinyje]

Looked like Groucho Marx.

[JamesDeanFan4Life]

THAT WAS SO HILARIOUS!!!

[1950sLaaady]

omg that was hilarious!!