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Old Time Radio Comedy — You Bet Your Life: "Audition" (1947) | Full Episode
You Bet Your Life was the quiz show that was really a comedy show, built entirely around the lightning-fast wit of Groucho Marx. This is the original audition recording — the demonstration disc that Groucho and producer John Guedel financed and cut themselves at a CBS studio on September 15, 1947, weeks before the show's official ABC premiere. It captures the very first time the format was tried out: Groucho as a quiz host who cares far more about ribbing his contestants than about the questions, ad-libbing his way through interviews with everyday people and proving that the show's real prize…
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