The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) Episode #4.9 (1953) User Reviews

Vaudeville didn't die. It just went live in front of a studio audience.

[mark.waltz · 6/10 · 13 June 2022]

When you've got two ot 50's top singers, Eddie Fisher and Frank Sinatra, plus a slew of specialties representing song, dance, sketch comedy and various other kinds of specialties, it's obvious that a style of entertainment that supposedly died decades before is very much alive. The host is the legendary comical singer Eddie Cantor, the subject of a movie biography the same year, doing a western spoof with the more serious Brian Donlevy. The voice of the horse sounds strangely like Chill Wills who was known at the time as the voice of Francis the Talking Mule. The songs stand the test of time, but the sketches are a mixed bag. But Kinescopes at this time are very important because while there are a lot of them, it's only a small percentage, although more seem to be popping up all the time. Some of the ideas indeed were dated even then, but a few here are definitely ahead of their time.