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People Are Funny

23 episodes · 1945–1958 · NBC, CBS · Variety & Music

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John Guedel's stunt show, 1942 to 1960: everyday people, rarely celebrities, were sent out to carry out stunts to prove that people are funny, and some stunts took weeks, months or even years. Art Baker hosted at first and Art Linkletter from 1943 on, on NBC, with a run on CBS from 1951 to 1954.

Sources: Wikipedia: People Are Funny; RadioGOLDINdex

Episodes

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1945

• Car-a-Day Contest: Victor Bourbonnet Wallpaper Gag November 9, 1945 · 30 min
• Car-a-Day Contest: Rita Bradford November 16, 1945 · 30 min

1946

• The Man Who Sold an Icebox to an Eskimo January 11, 1946 · NBC · 28 min
  Art Linkletter welcomes Jim Moran, famed for selling an icebox to an Eskimo, who ends up with a face full of pie. Rudy Vallee joins audience screen tests and sings with the winner.
• Sister-in-Law on Telephone October 18, 1946 · 30 min

1950

• Cinderella Girl, Part 3 of 3 February 7, 1950 · NBC · 30 min
  Art Linkletter has a contestant try milking a goat onstage, and the Cinderella Girl from Omaha comes back with a movie job.
• First Show of the Tenth Season September 19, 1950 · NBC · 30 min
  Art Linkletter opens the tenth season: a merchant marine must round up a borrowed family, a Marine wins a Las Vegas honeymoon, and a poodle helps a girl pick her husband.

1952

• Giving Away Frogs January 6, 1952 · NBC · 25 min
  Art Linkletter hands a contestant a sack of dead frogs to pass out around the neighborhood; a bus driver and a water tank full of ice also figure in.
• Tenth Season Begins: A Marine Borrows a Family September 19, 1952 · 30 min

1953

• Guests Dick Haymes and Freddy Martin March 10, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
  Art Linkletter, with guests Dick Haymes and Freddy Martin, sends a penniless woman out to get car parts on credit.
• Guest Freddy Martin March 17, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
  On Art Linkletter's show, a housewife plays an insulting waitress at a local restaurant, a boss and employee match wits, and guest Freddy Martin brings his saxophone pupil of three weeks.
• From Cedar Rapids, Iowa May 19, 1953 · 30 min
• Woman Pretends to Be Married October 27, 1953 · CBS · 24 min
  Art Linkletter has a single woman pose as a wife and then gives her a baby; another woman can't account for her husband, and a dog tries to win $1,000.

1954

• The Con Man, Part 1 January 5, 1954 · CBS · 30 min
  A contestant must give strangers free lamps, then break them in the handoff. "Mr. X," a professional swindler, tells Art Linkletter how he swindled seven housewives of their rugs.
• The Con Man, Part 2 January 12, 1954 · CBS · 30 min
  "Mr. X" comes back to tell Art Linkletter about more of his swindles, including carpet cleaning and a lost glass eye.
• Could You Buy a Hamburger October 26, 1954 · NBC · 29 min
  Art Linkletter dresses a man as a tramp and sends him to pay for a hot dog with a $1,000 bill; another must thumb a ride to New York with an open pail of perfume.
• Free Mink Stole November 2, 1954 · 31 min

1955

• Mrs. Lowe the Millionaire December 20, 1955 · 29 min
• Theodore Sorenson and the Chorus Girls December 27, 1955 · 28 min

1956

• Beliefs February 14, 1956 · 27 min
• Fib or Whopper February 21, 1956 · 29 min
• Wayne Hutchinson and the Bargain February 28, 1956 · 28 min

1958

• Royalty Shell Game June 22, 1958 · NBC · 22 min
  Rebroadcast on NBC's Nightline with host Walter O'Keefe, Art Linkletter's show opens with an updated take on the shell game.
• Making Up Your Mind July 23, 1958 · NBC · 22 min
  Heard on NBC's Nightline with Walter O'Keefe, Art Linkletter has a contestant choose among a small, medium and large box.