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
great stuff
Loved this! Kudos on whoever linked it up.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
i had a hoover senior like that i wish the hose suction had been as strong on mine!!!
This is a great vintage clip!
I so remember that logo of Garry Moore with his trademark crew cut.
Thank you for sharing this treasure.