Uploaded May 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
From the moment Groucho makes his wager with Jack Schwartz, it feels like we're in for a totally preplanned bit, but the payoff phone call appears genuinely spontaneous to me. The startled reactions of the woman on the other end of the phone call are priceless.
COUPLE #1: Eden Ryl, president of the EdenRyl Organization (naturally), which trains salesmen / Jack Schwartz, "greatest telephone insurance salesman in the country", who makes a sales call to demonstrate his skill
COUPLE #2: Barbara Winklepleck / Lloyd Kino, who we don't learn anything about at all, but they get to play the quiz with the absolute most boring category they had on YBYL, "Spelling". Great way to completely kill the pacing of the end of the episode, squeezing this in. They should have just had Groucho make another phone call. . .
NOTE: The opening couple of minutes are cut off.
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
From the moment Groucho makes his wager with Jack Schwartz, it feels like we're in for a totally preplanned bit, but the payoff phone call appears genuinely spontaneous to me. The startled reactions of the woman on the other end of the phone call are priceless.
COUPLE #1: Eden Ryl, president of the EdenRyl Organization (naturally), which trains salesmen / Jack Schwartz, "greatest telephone insurance salesman in the country", who makes a sales call to demonstrate his skill
COUPLE #2: Barbara Winklepleck / Lloyd Kino, who we don't learn anything about at all, but they get to play the quiz with the absolute most boring category they had on YBYL, "Spelling". Great way to completely kill the pacing of the end of the episode, squeezing this in. They should have just had Groucho make another phone call. . .
NOTE: The opening couple of minutes are cut off.
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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 and Groucho's other game shows! 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.
