@Tigerlily21 Around 1967? He'd be the equivalent of Patton Oswalt today. A popular television comic and writer, not quite a household name but well-known and loved among the tastemakers.
@thegreatestg I was just a kid back in those days,but I remember Cary Grant. He was a very popular movie actor who played romantic parts. He was the very opposite of Woody in that he was very handsome,strong and heroic in his movie parts. The girls loved him! He was the epitome of masculinity you might say. Therefore, the audience would have found that sign in to be hilarious.
LOL at :34 when someone gives him the wolf whistle. I mean, WTF it's Woody Allen people. Even Woody looks surprised and does a double take. He ain't known for good looks. I mean he's not a complete goblin but come on.
Woody Allen was a great stand up comedian before he became quite famous in the movie industry. His appearances on the Ed Sullivan show were hilarious.
his first two Lps on Colpix ('64 & '65) already show his comic genius....in order to get a divorce in NY at the time, he & his wife needed to prove adultery -- so he volunteered. he asked his wife's best friend if she would commit adultery with him...she replied, "not even if it helps the SPACE program!"
I remember this very well, I was part of the studio audience, I was 14 years old and hanging around the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway, hoping to get in to see the Ed Sullivan Show. Meanwhile there was this Bus that arrived in front of the theater and a man came off the bus looking for people to be part of the studio audience for the what’s my line show, so I got into the bus, got a ticket and I got to see the show with woody Allen as the mystery guess.
I still can't beleive he won an Oscar for Annie Hall and NOT Manhattan. I know which flim it is I deem far superior and it doesn't rhyme with ball. Tony is a damned riot.
@zapkvr "I still can't beleive he won an Oscar for Annie Hall and NOT [Hannah and Her Sisters or Crimes and Misdemeanors]. I know which [films] it is I deem far superior and it doesn't rhyme with [Pimps Ball]."
Dear Woodie Allan. I wish I could have served him at least as a housekeeper-cook. I think I know what his favourate Jewish Traditional Food.
Than make him make a movie about me. For he is a clever man, and surely enything he does in the film indusry, is nice intresting and something to remember.
Woody played "Jimmy Bond" in Casino Royale. Sir James Bond (David Niven)'s American nephew. It is one of Woody's few movie appearances here he didn't write and/or direct.
Woody has yet to peak. Great writer and director. Always dares to try something new. Always low budget. Doesn't dumb it down for a broader target audience. Every year a new film, and it's always anticipated by his fans. They may be dwindling in number but his work, like Chaplin, will survive the ages. His filmography alone is an achievement few writer-directors will ever come close to maching. Viva Allen!
This is enteresting on a number of levels. One, Woody Allen disliked Casino Royale (although Val Guest, who directed him in that film, had nothing but praise for Allen's talent and professionalism.
Secondly, Tony Randall would go on to appear in Woody Allen's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask). Thirdly, in that film Allen did a spoof called What's My Perversion?
Tony Randall really knew how to turn a wrong guess (quite a good guess by the way) into a running gag and milk it for all its worth. I couldn't wait for the questioning to come back to him just to hear what he had to say.
Rare is the WML clip where the panel gets ten no's during the mystery guest segment. It's fun watching the panel complete miss the mystery guest and then being told who it is.
Woody obviously tried VERY hard here to elude detection and enjoyed the challenge. Quite as enjoyable, in its own way, as watch?v=Jm-GUVDg7I8 , in which Danny Kaye is a lying mystery guest.
@romeman01 At 3.23-25, Allen suspects that too much of his own voice came across in his "no" (as can be seen by the lifting of the eyebrows afterward). Randall then says the voice sounds very familiar; Allen, now positive that he had just given himself away, gestures in frustration at 3.30. It gets worse: Randall adds that he doesn't think the guest is putting on a false voice. Allen smirks resignedly, sure he had given himself away. He only relaxes when Randall identifies him as Peter Falk.
Love this program, can someone suggest another tv program like this from the 50s or 60s? I have very limited knowledge of tv shows (beyond the obvious) from these decades.
There have been a few interesting guests on "I've got a secret", but it is a different flavor from WML. However, when it presents people like Neil Armstrong's parents, Bette Davis or Arlene Francis herself, it is worth watching!
@whato1986 other programs like this one, appearing on YouTube "I've Got a Secret" and "The Name's the Same." Names' the Same is especially interesting.
funny stuff....they should bring back this show,
indigenous4logic 4 days ago
Everybody wants to be Cary Grant! It's part of the human condition.
Onlymusical 5 days ago
At 5:12 Arlene Francis: I know that voice. I can't stand it!
Cecilia12Lynch 1 week ago
this vid was posted on my birthday a few years ago! greatest present ever: a woody allen clip i've never seen before!
SarcasticamTv 2 weeks ago
Mrs Mason: Are you available anywhere in New York?"
Woody Allen: TRY ME!
Classic!!
quizmaster85 2 weeks ago
hes so well known he can actually sign in as cary grant! haha
bossyboots55 2 weeks ago
What year was this?
Shifraeliezar 1 month ago
OMG, Woody kinda reminds me of Matthew Brodereck here.
ZamfirChannel 1 month ago
LOL!!!
soleaguirre100 1 month ago
i love this episode
malb40 1 month ago
Woody's costume in "Casino Royale" was the basis for Dr. Evil's costume in the Austin Powers.
ITCJon 1 month ago
" My only regret in life is that I am not Cary Grant."
my1990ful 1 month ago 3
tough LOL
soul1H 1 month ago
Are you a straight actor, lol
Quex01 1 month ago
Love Woody!!
karmalevel 1 month ago
I loved Casino Royal. He was so funny.
fatchickinla 2 months ago
re: 3:36--Woody Allen and Peter Falk starred in the remake of "The Sunshine Boys".
smichelle65 3 months ago
So just how famous was Woody Allen during these days?
Tigerlily21 3 months ago
@Tigerlily21 Around 1967? He'd be the equivalent of Patton Oswalt today. A popular television comic and writer, not quite a household name but well-known and loved among the tastemakers.
JohnSmithAprilMay 2 months ago
@Tigerlily21 Very I would say.
calalilygirl 1 month ago
are you a girl? haha
rapsodia43 3 months ago
I bet Woody was very happy to have been confused with Groucho, one of his heroes.
TomasTigre 3 months ago
Annie Hall was deserving Oscar material.
calalilygirl 3 months ago 2
why did he signed as Cary Grant? who is Cary Grant?
thegreatestg 4 months ago
@thegreatestg he trolled
tomnow92 4 months ago
@thegreatestg Are you freakin' kidding me with that question???
stickstr8up1 4 months ago
@thegreatestg I was just a kid back in those days,but I remember Cary Grant. He was a very popular movie actor who played romantic parts. He was the very opposite of Woody in that he was very handsome,strong and heroic in his movie parts. The girls loved him! He was the epitome of masculinity you might say. Therefore, the audience would have found that sign in to be hilarious.
gammondog 2 months ago
ROFLMAO
uncannyrich 5 months ago
Aw he is so adorable in this O.O
FangedTsuruya 5 months ago
LOL at :34 when someone gives him the wolf whistle. I mean, WTF it's Woody Allen people. Even Woody looks surprised and does a double take. He ain't known for good looks. I mean he's not a complete goblin but come on.
davidlynn77 5 months ago
funny!
specialxbitch 5 months ago
Woody Allen was a great stand up comedian before he became quite famous in the movie industry. His appearances on the Ed Sullivan show were hilarious.
PepsiJunkie52 6 months ago
Woody Allen is way overrated.
cheeriosinabowl 6 months ago
WOODY STUMPPED THEM ALL!! HARD TO DO WITH THIS GREAT PANEL!!
garybryant77 7 months ago
Woody Allen looks like an american Peter Sellers.
Both worked on Casino Royale
CenaTv2 7 months ago 3
@CenaTv2 both are jewish too
Quex01 1 month ago
his first two Lps on Colpix ('64 & '65) already show his comic genius....in order to get a divorce in NY at the time, he & his wife needed to prove adultery -- so he volunteered. he asked his wife's best friend if she would commit adultery with him...she replied, "not even if it helps the SPACE program!"
srw6666 8 months ago
I remember this very well, I was part of the studio audience, I was 14 years old and hanging around the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway, hoping to get in to see the Ed Sullivan Show. Meanwhile there was this Bus that arrived in front of the theater and a man came off the bus looking for people to be part of the studio audience for the what’s my line show, so I got into the bus, got a ticket and I got to see the show with woody Allen as the mystery guess.
torresj52 8 months ago 8
@torresj52 Woh!
RafaelDivoz 7 months ago
Cary Grant! Hahaha. Good ol' Woody and his neurotic sense of humor.
predlycon 8 months ago 5
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this is excellent anyone who says its lame or boring has NO funny bone
ysplse 8 months ago
I still can't beleive he won an Oscar for Annie Hall and NOT Manhattan. I know which flim it is I deem far superior and it doesn't rhyme with ball. Tony is a damned riot.
zapkvr 8 months ago
I still can't beleive he won an Oscar for Annie Hall and NOT Manhattan. I know which flim it is I deem far superior and it doesn't rhyme with ball.
zapkvr 8 months ago
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@zapkvr "I still can't beleive he won an Oscar for Annie Hall and NOT [Hannah and Her Sisters or Crimes and Misdemeanors]. I know which [films] it is I deem far superior and it doesn't rhyme with [Pimps Ball]."
I corrected your typos. Please, don't mention it.
OrphanSeasun 7 months ago
Like if you lol'd at Mike the Mouth for 1/24 of a second at the end of this video
quinnthology31 8 months ago
wow this is the first one ive seen where they didnt get it right!
1m34b5m78 9 months ago
This is lame.
nerdflanders8710 9 months ago
The sign in is classic!
Johnnyloo64 9 months ago
i can tell this was before he did it with Soon-Yi Previn
NickInfante92 9 months ago
@NickInfante92 Of course it was well before. He is still married to her BTW. What does this have to do with Soon Yi?
calalilygirl 3 months ago
I always thought Woody was a little bit strange. I was talented though. Didn't he marry his stepdaughter? Tony Randall was funny!
leahblashful 10 months ago
The man is a genius!
Ella1464 10 months ago
whatever his personal troubles, the world will forever be in woody allen's debt. laughing is the closest we get to touching the face of God--
moiraregis 11 months ago
Dear Woodie Allan. I wish I could have served him at least as a housekeeper-cook. I think I know what his favourate Jewish Traditional Food.
Than make him make a movie about me. For he is a clever man, and surely enything he does in the film indusry, is nice intresting and something to remember.
9abcdefgz 1 year ago
@younghifi umm, yeah, he does. Do a google search of Peter Sellers 1965 (he doesnt look like sellers in later life, but in the 60's ......
uofjim 1 year ago
Woody looks like Peter Sellers, doesnt he?
uofjim 1 year ago
@uofjim Not at all, really :)
younghifi 1 year ago
Tony Randall was so funny.
imkluu 1 year ago 2
@imkluu
oh yes he was; seeing this makes me realize how much i miss the old boy--
moiraregis 11 months ago
He tricked me.
GreekJR2 1 year ago
Woody played "Jimmy Bond" in Casino Royale. Sir James Bond (David Niven)'s American nephew. It is one of Woody's few movie appearances here he didn't write and/or direct.
MegaObserver1 1 year ago 3
Woody has yet to peak. Great writer and director. Always dares to try something new. Always low budget. Doesn't dumb it down for a broader target audience. Every year a new film, and it's always anticipated by his fans. They may be dwindling in number but his work, like Chaplin, will survive the ages. His filmography alone is an achievement few writer-directors will ever come close to maching. Viva Allen!
eheaven3 1 year ago 40
@eheaven3 how boring and shit.
nerdflanders8710 9 months ago
@eheaven3 his numbers might be dwindling in the states, but i saw 'midnight in paris' at a matinee on a tuesday in poland and it was a packed house.
jimmysudar 5 months ago
I agree.
Gmancrap 4 months ago
@eheaven3 lol he's peaked over 30 years ago. he's now a rich snob making films for rich snobs
zackhanscom 4 months ago
@zackhanscom Apparantly Midnight in Paris is very good.
FetaCheese222 3 months ago
i think i better get my gramom the internet because this kind of tv is genius and she would love it twice as much as i do!!
jbrower1976 1 year ago 2
This is enteresting on a number of levels. One, Woody Allen disliked Casino Royale (although Val Guest, who directed him in that film, had nothing but praise for Allen's talent and professionalism.
Secondly, Tony Randall would go on to appear in Woody Allen's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask). Thirdly, in that film Allen did a spoof called What's My Perversion?
STAY AWESOME! :)
cessnaace 1 year ago 22
This is the first time I've ever seen them stumped. He only sounded like himself once or twice.
IFStravinsky 1 year ago
I think Woody Allen did his best work when he was young. He peaked with Annie Hall.
gaylealstrom 1 year ago 5
Tony Randall really knew how to turn a wrong guess (quite a good guess by the way) into a running gag and milk it for all its worth. I couldn't wait for the questioning to come back to him just to hear what he had to say.
Gnillob802 1 year ago
I just noticed how much the Ringmaster Jerry Springer and the Woodman resemble each other-these pretzels are making me thirsty
bigjimsteelrod 1 year ago
lol Are you a straight actor... that has such a different meaning today
BlackReporter 1 year ago
This originally aired on
APRIL 3, 1966.
Keltster 2 years ago
classic
barrtok 2 years ago 2
I like how at 6:03 Arlene mouths "Woody Allen" in disbelief.
wmlfan9 2 years ago
Rare is the WML clip where the panel gets ten no's during the mystery guest segment. It's fun watching the panel complete miss the mystery guest and then being told who it is.
wmlfan9 2 years ago
Woody obviously tried VERY hard here to elude detection and enjoyed the challenge. Quite as enjoyable, in its own way, as watch?v=Jm-GUVDg7I8 , in which Danny Kaye is a lying mystery guest.
romeman01 2 years ago
@romeman01 At 3.23-25, Allen suspects that too much of his own voice came across in his "no" (as can be seen by the lifting of the eyebrows afterward). Randall then says the voice sounds very familiar; Allen, now positive that he had just given himself away, gestures in frustration at 3.30. It gets worse: Randall adds that he doesn't think the guest is putting on a false voice. Allen smirks resignedly, sure he had given himself away. He only relaxes when Randall identifies him as Peter Falk.
romeman01 2 years ago
Early/Funny
leskamilla3 2 years ago 2
What's with boy-girl-girl-boy lineup?
63utuber 2 years ago
Cary Grant never did appear on What's My Line -- so I bet some in the TV audience (if not many) were disappointed.
soulierinvestments 2 years ago
Love this program, can someone suggest another tv program like this from the 50s or 60s? I have very limited knowledge of tv shows (beyond the obvious) from these decades.
whato1986 2 years ago
There have been a few interesting guests on "I've got a secret", but it is a different flavor from WML. However, when it presents people like Neil Armstrong's parents, Bette Davis or Arlene Francis herself, it is worth watching!
dialectgirl 2 years ago
@whato1986 other programs like this one, appearing on YouTube "I've Got a Secret" and "The Name's the Same." Names' the Same is especially interesting.
soulierinvestments 1 year ago