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Garry Moore Show - 1958 - The Vacuum Cleaner Salesman

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Uploaded by on May 6, 2008

Early actors Dick Van Dyke and Chuck McCann portray
Laurel and Hardy - also as Jackie Gleason and Art Carney
in seperate skits about selling vacuum cleaners
in this very rare 1958 Kinescope footage from
CBS-TV's The Garry Moore Show -

The host's name here is Richard (?) -
The 'Hoover' announcer here is Durward Kirby

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  • The BEST L&H impression! Thought Van Dyke would tower Chuck.....they both did their homework on them.....

  • Thank you for sharing this treasure.

  • I so remember that logo of Garry Moore with his trademark crew cut.

  • This is a great vintage clip!

  • i had a hoover senior like that i wish the hose suction had been as strong on mine!!!

  • Dick van Dyke was a good friend of Stan Laurel's and spent a lot of time with Stan in his final years.

  • I used to watch the daytime version of the Garry Moore show when I was a little kid.

    Thanks for bringing back a long forgotten memory!

    As far as "polite laughter" mentioned below, these shows didn't have a very big studio audience if they had one at all.

    Some of the laughter sounds as if it's coming from the stage crew and the host.

  • Great story bkaye. Stan and Ollie made it look so easy. They had funny bones but they were also master craftsmen. No one ever really pulled off a satisfactory impersonation of either. This is interesting though.

  • Chuck was a MUCH better mimic than Dick. His Norton was a bit better than his Stan. His Stan never stopped moving! The whole bit lacked the humor, editing, and nuance that the resl team had. Even though it was done live.

  • When DIck did Stan on his own show, he called up Stan to ask him what he thought. To paraphrase: "Quite good, Dickie ... just a few things.." Then Van Dyke reported that Stan went on for maybe 30 minutes explaining all of the nuances of his character that he missed. Dick said he wished he had recorded the call. It was like an encyclopedia of comedy!

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