What's My Line Mystery Guest Segment: Art Carney (3-27-1966)

Legendary comedian Art Carney, best known for his portrayal of Brooklyn sewer worker Ed Norton on The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason, is the mystery guest here on the equally legendary CBS Sunday night guessing game show, What's My Line, which by the time of Carney's appearance here, WML had been on the air for sixteen years, running one more year before finally airing it's last program in 1967. Carney has a field day here teasing the panel...

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[StooGP]

What's also particularly interesting is how What's My Line was still as sharp as ever, even after fifteen years on the air...TV hasn't seen such a classy production (never mind it was simply a game show) in quite some time...thanks all for all the informative comments here as well!

[erzbet07]

What a shame we don't have shows like WHAT'S MY LINE in this day and age! Game shows now are mostly dreck (except for Jeopardy)..all pumped full of glitz, noise and whatnot. What's My Line had class - every week..and the regulars were erudite, funny, classy folks. Thanks for sharing this wonderful look back at the talented - and missed - ART CARNEY. He could say more with his eyes than any other comic with a page of dialogue!

[jennings861]

No, he's been dead since 1991.

[tpir1972]

Is John Daly still alive?

[tpir1972]

What happebed to Dorothy Kilgallen?

[observer9670]

John Daly asked Art to be on WML a total of 4 times. They were personal friends, former co-workers (on CBS radio) and Daly knew that Carney could do strange voices. But he never could fool Bennett Cerf.

[srogoff40]

A total class act!

[jstadler75]

Vtte4, Art's response to "Do you sing?" was, "If I'm asked."

[Vitte4]

This is WML at its zany best!

[Vitte4]

What was Carney's initial response to Allen's question, "Do you sing?" I couldn't quite catch it.

[fjccommish]

It ran for 17 years before airing it is last program?

[MegaObserver1]

This was right after Art ended his run on Broadway in The Odd Couple. That Fall, he would rejoin Jackie Gleason on his variety show, which would be mostly hour long musical Honeymooners sketches. But Art and John got one thing wrong, Audrey Meadows did not join that cast, the "Alice" role was played by Sheila McRae.