Uploaded June 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
This is a VERY interesting show featuring Ferdinand Demara, notorious "Great Imposter". Some background on Mr. Demara is available on Wikipedia here-- fascinating story:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Waldo_Demara
This show also kicks off the male bodybuilder contest that ran for the next several weeks.
COUPLE #1: June & Reginald Lewis (body builder)
COUPLE #2: Carmen Phillips & Ferdinand Demara, the "Great Imposter"
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
This is a VERY interesting show featuring Ferdinand Demara, notorious "Great Imposter". Some background on Mr. Demara is available on Wikipedia here-- fascinating story:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Waldo_Demara
This show also kicks off the male bodybuilder contest that ran for the next several weeks.
COUPLE #1: June & Reginald Lewis (body builder)
COUPLE #2: Carmen Phillips & Ferdinand Demara, the "Great Imposter"
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Click here to subscribe to the YBYL channel, where you'll find well over a hundred complete episodes you can't find anywhere else, as well as some rare Burns and Allen material that doesn't really belong there:
youtube.com/channel/UCUIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w?sub_confirmation=1
New Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If you've already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? facebook.com/groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
![Burns and Allen - Classic Scenes #8 - Would a sane man do that? [clip]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8TTvDj7eUO8/mqdefault.jpg "Burns and Allen - Classic Scenes #8 - Would a sane man do that? [clip]
Heres a brief, but hilarious, scene thats deleted from the currently syndicated versions of the Burns and Allen show. Here, Gracie is trying her best to convince George that hes lost his mind so that hell buy a boat (dont ask the plot will only make sense if you see the rest of the episode).
Sorry about the video quality this comes from an old VHS recording of reruns back in the 1980s. Tried to clean it up as best I could. Bear in mind, the scenes like this one that have been deleted from currently rerunning episodes will likely never see the light of day again unless this series (miraculously) gets a proper DVD release some day. Why anyone would edit out such a hilarious moment as this is completely beyond me!")
