People Are Funny
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
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1942–1960 · NBC
People Are Funny
Art Linkletter did it to the audience, not for them
Art Linkletter's programme was an experiment in what an audience would agree to do on request, and the answer turned out to be almost anything. Some of the stunts ran for weeks. One of them, notoriously, involved a balloon released with a wallet attached to test whether a stranger would return it. As a document of what mid-century America thought was funny, it is more revealing than most of the comedy of the period.
25 broadcasts · 7 years held · Hollywood
Surviving broadcasts of the NBC series. Recordings held by the Internet Archive.
19504
People Are Funny
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
People Are Funny
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
People Are Funny
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
19522
People Are Funny
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
People Are Funny
The one everybody argues about.
19534
People Are Funny
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
People Are Funny
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
People Are Funny
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
People Are Funny
The one everybody argues about.
19544
People Are Funny
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
People Are Funny
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
People Are Funny
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
People Are Funny
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
19564
People Are Funny
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
People Are Funny
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
People Are Funny
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
People Are Funny
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
19584
People Are Funny
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
People Are Funny
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
People Are Funny
The one everybody argues about.
People Are Funny
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Undated reels3
People Are Funny
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
People Are Funny
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
People Are Funny
The one everybody argues about.