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Ward Kimball on You Bet Your Life
by amid
May 13, 2007 9:48 pm


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.

05/14/07  2:53am

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

05/14/07  6:59am
uncle wayne says:

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!)

05/14/07  7:50am
Paul says:

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

05/14/07  8:14am

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

05/14/07  9:05am

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

05/14/07  12:19pm
uffler mustek says:

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

05/14/07  2:56pm

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.

05/14/07  6:03pm
Tamu says:

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

05/14/07  6:07pm
EHH says:

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.)

05/14/07  10:10pm
Kevin Kidney says:

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

05/15/07  5:40am
Bugsmer says:

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

05/15/07  9:36am
Uli Meyer says:

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

05/15/07  4:10pm
Norm says:

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.

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