Garry Moore Show – 1958 – The Vacuum Cleaner Salesman
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
Duration : 0:8:39
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May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I used to watch the …
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.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Great story bkaye. …
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.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Chuck was a MUCH …
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.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
When DIck did Stan …
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!
May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
The Garry Moore …
The Garry Moore Show is such a hoot! I wish more of these episodes were available. Garry was a great talent that is all but often forgotten today.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Im from Germany, i …
Im from Germany, i have never seen this in TV … tar for it on YouTube! … i love it! … its a great act of Mr. Laurel + Hardy!
May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Very interesting to …
Very interesting to watch! Great Premise. Good Impersonations. But some clever writing and funny jokes would have made the bit much better — you noticed the audience did “polite laughter”, but there wasn’t a lot of sustained guffaws. Just my opinion.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Dick Van Dyke had ( …
Dick Van Dyke had (and still has) the very ESSENCE of the wonderful Arthur Stanley Jefferson, better known as Stan Laurel.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
This was from the …
This was from the daytime version of “THE GARRY MOORE SHOW”, from the time when Garry was “on vacation”, and a substitute host like Richard [Hayes?] filled in for him. Dick and Chuck were still “on the fringes” of TV employment; McCann would find great success as a local N.Y. TV “kid host” in the ’60s, while Van Dyke…incidentally, Stan Laurel admired Dick’s impression of him, as well as Chuck’s “Oliver Hardy”- McCann went on to co-found “The Sons Of the Desert”, the worldwide L&H “society”.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Dick Van Dyke was …
Dick Van Dyke was always the best impersonator of Stan Laurel
May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Loved this! Kudos …
Loved this! Kudos on whoever linked it up.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
great stuff
great stuff