Ward Kimball on You Bet Your Life

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At the pace we’re going, by this time next week our site will likely be renamed Kimball Brew. But after seeing the incredible Ward Kimball interview with Tom Snyder below, I couldn’t resist digging into my collection and posting one more rare piece of Kimball video: his March 1954 appearance with Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life. And don’t forget, Kimball’s got his own MySpace.

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  • http://classiccartoons.blogspot.com/ Duck Dodgers

    So that “dirty crooker” never left the backyard?
    Groucho rules and Kimball was very funny too (” ’cause there’s seven of us”)!

  • uncle wayne

    That tv show was truly one of the best!! Sillyme….years ago I thought THAT was gonna be on “Comedy Central”…this is the REAL “Reality Show!” (even scripted!)

  • Paul

    Ya gotta love that Ward got a question on “Pinocchio”. Way too funny!

  • http://members.shaw.ca/petemslie/index.htm Pete Emslie

    I wonder if Groucho ever found out that it was Ward who had animated him in “Mother Goose Goes Hollywood”.

  • http://www.bishopanimation.com Floyd Bishop

    Ward Kimball holds his own in company with Groucho. That speaks volumes about his talent.

  • uffler mustek

    Don’t attempt to upstage Marx – Rule #1 of You Bet Your Life. HE WILL DESTROY YOU.

  • http://doubleben.blogspot.com/ Emmett Goodman

    Wonderful Find.

    I love Groucho Marx and his snappy mockeries. Ward Kimball proves both a perfect match and foil for Groucho. I really would like to have met both of these legends.

  • http://www.fpsmagazine.com Tamu

    I’m loving this – it was the best part of my day. Thank you!

  • EHH

    A lot of posts on Kimball recently, huh? Luckly, he is one my favorite people of animation. Plus, I watched “How to Dance” a while ago with the Firehouse 5 Plus 2 (I never knew that Frank Thomas, another of Disney’s Nine Old Men, was part of the band. I recognized his caracture while he was playing the piano.)

  • Kevin Kidney

    Congrats to the lumberjack and his partner! Thanks, this is fabulous stuff!

  • Bugsmer

    That was really interesting. Those two do work well together. It was great to hear Ward explaining his railroad in his own words.

  • http://www.ulimeyer.com Uli Meyer

    I ditto with Floyd and everybody else. What a performer!

  • Norm

    You Bet Your Life also had really excellent animated intros, one that sticks out in my memory is the one with Groucho driving around in a Plymouth DeSoto, very cartoon modern.