Groucho Marx 1951 You Bet Your Life Part 1

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The reason he liked the name Hagedorn so much was because it reminded him of his old bit "Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga and McCormick" from the Marx bros movie Animal Crackers.

[bossyboots55]

someof his guests gave back just as good.

one lady said ABOUT not giving her age: 'if a girl tells her age, shes liable to tell everything'

A man said after groucho made fun of what he said; A man's mind is like a horse: it only works well on a dirt track' :)

[jackpark7927]

HBO did a retrospective of Groucho's life back in the '80s. I think Dick Cavett may have narrated it. Anyway, on the HBO special, there was a story told about a father with something like 16 children who was supposedly a contestant on the show. When the man told Groucho of the size of his family, Groucho supposedly said, "Sixteen children! I love smoking my cigar but at least I take it out of my mouth once in a while." I have yet to track down the footage.

[catboxcatboxcatbox]

@jackpark7927 Here you go

[catboxcatboxcatbox]

@jackpark7927 google it with Snopes the audio comes up

[Rumpio]

This show was broadcast on the 22nd November 1951.

[CharlieChaplinsAngel]

Does anybody know where I can download all the episodes of You Bet Your Life for free?

[Setebos]

The contestants keep throwing these straight lines at him. It's almost painful to watch Groucho just pick up the ammunition.

[Mendy7952]

I spent most of my career in the entertainment field and worked with many of the greats, but the funniest man I ever observed was Groucho, absorbed in an argument with his pal Harry Ruby about the ingredients of HALVAH! These were the moments that made living in L.A. in the golden days worthwhile! But of all the celebs I have known, I am most proud to say I have known 3 non-entertainers who were guests on YOU BET YOUR LIFE!

[MIKESOWELL]

You know....I think that you are right. In many of the Marx Brothers movies, the few times that Groucho looks directly into the camera when he breaks the fourth wall, he sometimes did appear to be cockeyed....

[LouisLambert]

I can't find any referent to the fact that he has strabismus. Has this fact been completely overlooked in literature?

[MIKESOWELL]

@LouisLambert What is strabismus?

[LouisLambert]

@MIKESOWELL To put it rudely, it means that he's cockeyed. Wiki the term; wikipedia has a good summary of it.

[Haseotoramaki99]

Hey I'm from Petaluma

[MrNamdor]

lol, "my standards are low, I don't care what we discuss"  Groucho, the best

[Foxrrob]

My dad had a 1952 Desoto.

[benthemiester]

I used to watch the reruns in the 70's. Loved this show. The Honeymooners used to come on after this show. Loved that one too.

[Rumpio]

By my calculations this is the 22nd November 1951 edition. (Should anyone want to know!)

[fIRsTRATmAN]

The girl seems so good natured and genuine... Shame you dont see many of them today.

[StrongGlad999]

It sickens me when ignorant people say "Groucho? Three stooges? Abbot and Costello? Monty Python? They're not funny, they're stoooopid! Dane cook, now he's funny!"

Lies i say!

[bandboy10]

@StrongGlad999 he says Poop and you laugh... these people act and act well... so shut up

[zaq423]

I agree with Fubolux that you can have a wonderful tv show without flashing tits, swearing, death and mayhem and other non-sense. But it does not hurt!!

[Setebos]

Gosh. Genuine wit and intelligence carrying a television show. What a concept!

[st8184an2]

This show would be so interesting if one of the tv stations decided to do a modern version of this one. Say the secret word and win $100. lol

[kevineatworld]

Gotta get me one of those DeSoto Plymouths

[rockinmosquito]

Clips like this only show, that the good old days were in fact better than today.

[richardterrell]

I remember this show from when I was a young teenager.

[younghoss]

Groucho is so funny, by NOT referencing a Peeping Tom at 3.00. No doubt that would have been a big laugh, but passing up on it and saying "I fooled you" was just as funny

[kmacjack]

An outhouse is the item behind the house

[younghoss]

I would have loved to have been lucky enough to have been on Groucho's show, and to have been one of those he insulted. Would have been worth the insults to have been on nat'l tv, and to have had a chat with Groucho.

[unclewalt56]

We lived in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1951 when this show was aired and Fairbanks didn't get their first TV station until 1955; we got our first TV in 1956 and had a total of one station to watch on a small black & white screen.

[Pitumisio]

6:27 "Very funny..." I've laughed so hard the neighbour came downtairs to see if I was ok... i seem to live in a sopbox buildin hahahaha

[JDev82]

2:47 hagedorn hagedorn hagedorn!

haha oh groucho.

[zapkvr]

The poor girl, she is priceless isn't she and so good natured. They sure don't make shows like this any more.

[smokeysport2]

Oh yes she's hilarious because she is so earnest and Groucho keeps setting her up perfectly. His look when the architect says, "Behing every real home is an architecht is priceless. Will we ever see his like again?

[pgh45rpms]

George Fenneman was the perfect straight-man for Groucho. George was also the announcer for the old Dragnet series.

[0racle0f0maha]

"You Bet Your Life"...I love this show, but why doesn't anyone ever get killed at the end when they lose ?

[snapdragon11]

you take things too literally

[TouretteNeck]

What a fantastic and funny programme... I wish I could have lived during the fifties!!!

[AkiraChan24]

Me too! I always wish I lived in different times.

[unzarjones]

I'd rather live in the 21st century and watch the programs on the internet whenever I want. They are just as funny now.

[unclewalt56]

You're absolutely right about the 50's. I grew up in the fifties and remember saying it was America at its very best. Only 10 yrs old and I knew it was the very best time to live in the good old USA; with 50's chromed out cars, malt shops, 5 & 10 cent stores, cherry cokes, Ike in the white house, no wars and snappin good times!!

[BrooklynSal]

I think you're right. I grew up in the aftermath of the 60's and 70's. What a disaster.

[Jayne1286]

@unclewalt56 and Jim Crow laws.

[papasmurfdrummer]

@unclewalt56 and lynching, and heavy government corruption, and women dying from botched illegal abortions... good times indeed.

[Mamaluvsmambo]

@papasmurfdrummer Lynchings.....how old are you? Botched abortions....abortions were not legal.....if they were "botched:" as you so eloquently put it, then at that time is was the floozys that were doing it.....and shouldn't have. It was a different time...and if you were not there...you have no right to post. on the subject.........

[brougham89]

Well it depends what you experienced during that time and what your personal interests were. You were obviously interested in the movements and politics at the time. Although this was truly unfortunate, unclewalt56 was describing what he remembered when he was a kid. Of course he may have had a different experience had he been older during the time. You were probably in your teens or early twenties at the time and remembered the real monstrocities of that era.

[000tay000]

of course it was good times... but what if you were a black kid

douche-bag...

[Ecksntrick8]

I can't tell if you're a pussy or WHAT!

[Mamaluvsmambo]

@000tay000 ..you can ask that question and your name is what Buckwheat said,,,can you say hypocrite,.,,,and the answer is, if you were a decent person, black or white, you were treated with respect. I know...I was there...in the south too.

[000tay000]

so youre saying that so long as you were decent you got treated with respect right

so i guess that means that whomever was discriminated, either verbally or violently did deserved it 100%

again i repeat my ending = douchebag...

[unclewalt56]

@000tay000 oh yes, and all white downtown shopping areas.....no diversity bs.

[BillyMacQ]

I like to think I'm pretty sharp, but I doubt that I'd last two minutes with Groucho. He'd own me in no time. What a priceless character. Some may disagree, but I think he's just as funny when he doesn't say anything. His facial expressions alone - even when he has a blank look on his face - are enough.

[CharlieChaplinsAngel]

@BillyMacQ HAHAHA!! I AGREE!! I'm pretty sharp too and that comes from my father's side, but I've developed to become sharper from watching Groucho so much. And half the time when I'm laughing at groucho, its his facial expressions!

[dancebandleader]

@BillyMacQ Right ! And Groucho's expression on his show when responding

with an ad-lib to answer something said by a contestant, really almost shows the

wheels turning in Groucho's comic mind. With usually great results.

[JMMPR24]

@dancebandleader : Kinda reminds of me Colin from "Whose Line is it Anyway"...though if Grougho were alive and had been on that show, he would'ved totally owned Colin.

That, and both of them together would've caused the audience to literally die laughing.

[JMMPR24]

@dancebandleader : Kinda reminds me of Colin from "Whose Line is it Anyway?" ...though if Groucho were alive, he'd totally own Colin (and both of them combined would've probably had the Whose Line audience literally dying of laughter)

[dancebandleader]

@JMMPR24 Sorry, don't know that character

[SHOELESSJOE60]

What a wit, brilliant, fast on the draw.

[JDev82]

hagedorn hagedorn hagedorn

my names hagedorn.

gotta love groucho

[alun101]

great - i'm going to buy a plymouth de soto on the strength of this...

[parousia2]

I couldnt agree more with the comments here. A wonderful comedian without any profanity. It can be done! Why can't we have more like him today or maybe they just dont exist. God bless Groucho.

[Fudolux]

looks you can have a cool tv show without flashing tits, swearing and similiar shit. Do humans devolve ? ;p

[henrybird]

we're all devo!

[henrybird]

but I agree with you!

[benforshay]

@Fudolux its like we did a swan dive from the top of the mountain into the shallowest part of the pool. this is great stuff that none of the kids will sadly ever know about.. keep uploading

[Haseotoramaki99]

@Fudolux  maybe

[mrhipsterdoofus]

@Fudolux  We are Devo

[Alex11710]

@Fudolux - I understand your distaste for the second and third things, but I think we could probably use more of the first one.

[Lockemeister]

@Fudolux You bet your ass humans devolve.;p

[CplHenriDefense]

@Fudolux But you'd need Groucho! One of a kind.

[DJOXTOKS]

@Fudolux apparently...

[JDev82]

@Fudolux you seem to take issue with swearing while swearing.. i am perplexed.

[ToolsnFire]

Genius

[selmer6player]

ah, those were the days! thanks for the wonderful post.

[dudemantwo]

Ms. Crystal speaks very well...

[dudemantwo]

I got to get me one of them 1951 De Sotos...

[Limp73]

I always admired Groucho's quick wit when I first saw this classic show as a kid. Note the vintage NBC 1940s era microphone at his desk. When this show was later sydnicated as "The Best of Groucho," all references to DeSoto and Plymouth were intregally edited out. Groucho and producer John Guidell had this series filmed instead of done live and kinescoped since there was no videotape at the time.

[Nicar526]

Genius,pure Genius..The guy with the cigar aint bad either..(Man,now he's got me doing it)

[54spiritedwill54]

Pure class! Long Live Groucho.

[dale1966gto]

From my days as a young child I remember watching this show with my grandfather. I also remember him cracking up with booming laughter almost every few seconds. (REAL COMEDY WITHOUT PROFANITY!) As I look as these old clips I realize now(and have for years, actually) what a real comic genius Groucho was. He could make a joke about ANYTHING - and was lightning quick with his wit too. There will never be another like him. He was to comedy what Einstein was to physics.

[bullcur]

Groucho wasn't a "Hollywood Invention" like these Boring,empty headed Losers who call themselves takented today. The standards of talent and entertainment is based on the beholders "Idea" of what is actually Talent,therefore todays Audience are MINDLESS,seeking MINDLESS entertainment,thank God For Clips like this!

[EldritchMask]

A brilliant show! Sadly none of our current "stars" have even half his wit and banter.

[xhellonhighheels69x]

"Well, a huntsman without a coup de grace is nothing!" god, the wit on that guy!

:D~

[BeantownJim]

i loved that man lol

[cejono]

One of the greatest personalitys and human beings ever lived!! He is the best!!

[DutchComedian]

Hilarious episode. Groucho is on point as always

[fromthesidelines]

And not only that, at the time, you could also HEAR the show on Wednesday nights (edited differently from the TV version) over NBC radio, before seeing it the following evening....

[noliketoregister]

Behind every home is the outhouse!

[Brutmax]

A lying dog!!! Pure class!!!

Long Live Groucho.

[jickeys]

I wish we could have things to watch such as this nowadays,this is really entertaining to me and make sme forget about all the bad things going on today.

[crackerzot]

Yeah, our grandparents and parents had this. We're stuck with Jerry Springer and Maury Povich! Ugh...

[OliverPenn1]

She's only 25?!!!!!! I've watched a lot of these and these 18 year olds look like 35 year olds. When I was 18 I looked 13!