I miss those days, I think 50's America was the best time to ever live, go watch a drive thru with your sweetheart then go to the diner etc, those were the days, I'd much rather relive the 50's than live today.
Jack was truly incredible. Pneumonia cut his life short at 96. 1033 pushups in 23 minutes is 45 per minute average. Plus he did (just going from memory) something like 1000 Jumping Jacks in the same hour of LIVE TV.
Thanks for posting this, Jack's dad died young, he called it 'suicide'. Jack made it to 95 and helped so many succeed at feeling better mentally. He loved helping people feel better! Groucho seemed to enjoy blowing the cigar smoke Jack's way. Groucho was always so fresh, the aspiring actress and Jack seeking to draw more fans to his morning show. 1 1/2 hours he was given 5 days a week! His shows were very popular, even to those still on the couch with the remote. Love my Jack La Lanne Juicer!
Thank you for that corraborative anecdote. I've never smoked, but had a neighbor a year younger than me who from her teens smoked heavily. Last year she was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer that metastasized and so required brain surgery. This Groucho show was (I presume) from before the 1961 US Surgeon General official report that smoking does cause cancer, and that first required labeling on cigarette packages that smoking is a health hazard. Soon after, tobacco ads were banned on tv.
Groucho died 2 months short of his 87th birthday, and in his elderly years, suffered dementia, a heart attack, congestive heart failure, a broken hip from falling- twice!, a urinary track infection, hypertension, and a stroke. Lalanne at 96 felt well enough to do his long exercise routine only 24 hours before he died.
@@2Tall_Powerlifting Also like 10 years is nothing. lol 10 years being free and healthy is something no one wants to give up. Groucho also suffered pain and discomfort in later years due to illnesses. So, it is a lot more than just 10 years. It is many more years being healthy. I am not writing to be mean. I wish everybody could eat healthy, cheat if you want once a week, not incredibly bad. lol And exercise regularly. Almost everyone would be happier, in general. Much happier. Looking and feeling really good.
I think Grouch is funny as all get out. Jack Lalanne knew what it was going to be like when he came on the show. Good night, he enjoyed it, don't know why others are getting bent out of shape and...by the way, Groucho lived to be 86 years old himself...That's quite an achievement in itself..and especially seeing how the guy was born in 1890
As much as I love this show, I always feel sorry for the guests. They weren't used to being on TV in those days, and were much easier to embarrass. I wonder how Groucho would have fared doing this show now. I'd love to see that! Wonder if that girl ever became an actress. Jack is such a regular guy. Got to love that about him.
I paddled from fair Long Island to San Francisco on a surfboard in 9 and half hours in ruff water that was non stop. Holy shit that's freaking amazing.
@spiderman5402 Jack was soooooooo far ahead of his time and what a gentleman he was taking Groucho's ribbing so well. He had so much to offer and was so eager to offer it to the world - and yes, he was a very handsome man!
It was a comedy show!!! David Lettermen and Jay Leno would do the same thing today. Lighten up!!! This was hardley the right venue for La lanne to spread his message, and he probablly knew that going in.
It's been surmised that Groucho's aggressive verbal routine came from dealing with hostile vaudeville crowds. It evolved into a character and Groucho became the character. That was his shtick, love it or hate it.
I thought if anyone would live to be 100, it would be Jack La Lanne. But, 96 is a good, long life. As a kid, I like to do jumping jacks. along with you.
Jack Lalanne is a great guy. I know him personally. Jack will be celebrating his 100th birthday soon. If Groucho would have listened to Jack and taken vitamin pills and quit smoking cancer sticks then Groucho would still have been here today.
@KDoyle4 , my friend the matter is not to live many years as Norman did, but to live a life till you reach your limits with tons of vitality like Jack did till his sudden death...if i stop exercise, perhaps i reach 100 like my grandpa did but after my 40s , i will live like an oldman....
Klutzyknockoutlady, my uncle died at 60 after 15 years of smoking cigars: ever see someone with throat cancer? Months before he died, he had a pouch on the side of his throat and his voice was a raspy whisper. Ditto Sue Randall, much younger, the actress who played Beav's teacher on Leave It To Beaver, ex- happy smoker on Newport tv ads. My sister's boyfriend having smoked since his teens, died of lung cancer at 48 (looked and acted in his 90's; pathetic, and I mean that with pity).
*horn out of nowhere* For no reason a girl in a cage is lowered from the sky gives jack 50 bucks and kisses the old dude, gets back in the cage and the old guy says something about her being your mother.........WTF
Some people (like George Burns) seem naturally hardy and genetically enabled for longevity. In his case, he may have just used the cigar (like Groucho in Groucho's early films, but not on this show) as a theatrical prop, before the cameras. He may not have inhaled. Too, George Burns was a calm, steady pragmatic thinker with a philosophical sense of humor about life who created and controlled his career and realities. Gracie unfortunately was not so hardy. His emotional resilience got him to 101.
2:15-3:10. One of the best damn jokes. The Godfather of Fitness had an amazing degree of humor. I can't believe that people laughed more at Groucho's punchline than Jack's joke.
Groucho is literally the majority of the world today. Confused, unsure, cannot comprehend, and slightly insecure to someone who really embraces life fully and makes no excuses. Literally none.
That's basically true...30 minutes watching this guy is 5000 times more effective than all those things you see on the telly today..if you apply what he says to your life. (well..I haven't really watched TV in a year so I dunno wtf is on now).
If I doubled my life, I'd be his age - but then imagining after that living in this video, but then continue on to living onto the world of so much technology we have today----it's so weird to think about. (If I made sense. Probably not).
Groucho and David Letterman seem to have similar comedic style. Even the tone and rythm of thier voices is very similar. I wonder if David used Groucho as a model when developing his comedic style.
Why all the negativity toward these two guys? Part of Groucho 's routine was comic insult. It's all done in good fun. And Lalanne is a fitness pioneer who has helped improve the lives of millions of people.
You people need to lighten up, everyone knows what Groucho was all about, and everyone knows that he was just kidding. That's what Groucho and his shows are all about. I'm sure the people that were on his shows are aware of that.
Ok, if I was Jack I would tell this Groucho to stop smoking near me U.U Plus, you smoke on television.. then what's the message you give to people? But he was damn funny too: "My advice is that you swim back to Alcatraz and stay there", lol. It was funny, but in the long run.. with his 96 years of life, I think proved something. Something that should be followed by all of us!
I have always been a fan of Groucho & The Marx Brothers, in their films that mostly satirized overinflated pretense. But in the 1940s through 1950s and again in 1970s (through today), a few brave lone pioneers like Jack LaLanne started in America and Europe a mass movement to eat and exercise for best possible health ... and such pioneers were rudely and roundly ridiculed as "health nuts"--as here, Jack extendedly by Groucho ... whose cigar smoking shortened his own life and his emulators'.
(cont.) And tv host Johnny Carson, a heavy smoker, died of emphysema. Years before that, the Hollywood actor Yul Brynner, a former heavy smoker, a few months before he died of lung cancer, did a valuable PSA educational video announcement to children and all smokers, saying that when you see this video, I will have died from smoking, so don't smoke.
(cont.) The three oldsters you cite lived long despite (not because of) their smoking that might have been mostly a dramatic prop: they were career successful, monied comedians, had a sense of humor, were slim. How I (a lifelong nonsmoker with healthy lifestyle, exercise and diet) looked at my high school 30th reunion: age 30, per greeters at door who nearly didn't admit me.
@Uushilumbu79 The show was designed to be a platform for Groucho and his comedy, everything else was secondary. Everyone who came on the show should have known that prior to coming on the show.
for some reason women back then looked older..then there age..look at some of the old videos of say the dick Clark show in the 50's...and you will see the girls looking older then the boys....p.s. jack was ahead of his time...rip jack
Jack had the last laugh--he lived to 96, healthy and happy.Groucho as a career satirist comedian never learned a central philosophical fact about satire: truth and true goodness (especially nobility and heroism, such as Jack LaLanne's) are unsatirizable. From antiquity the aim of satire is to deflate and dethrone falsehood, folly, vice and evil, and to restore truth, wisdom, virtue and high hopes, aims and achievements.A satirist is always inferior to a true, good, noble person and lofty artist.
@loftymuses - I've seen Jack Lalanne in conversation with courteous interviewers, so it can happen. But watching this one, I too was wondering if something was wrong; it could've just been me, but there seemed to be some tension between Groucho and Jack, as if maybe they'd had some kind of confrontation before the show.
thanks for that ...it amaze's me how people can always find something insulting to say about short men and not one who is tall. I just finished watching on the military channel men who have been awarded the medal of honor and most of them were short men. And yet they did what most people expect a tall man to do. Society has branded them and its shameful.
The more Groucho tried to insult Jack, the more Jack stood his ground...... Long Live Jack! We need someone like him today.
Groucho wasn't trying to insult him, don't be silly.
JACK LA LANE was a human dynamo,nothing got him down,it would take death to stop him,rip JACK,THE WORLD LOVES YOU
Jack was amazing and inspirational to me,too. Got to meet him here in Columbus,Ohio and he was SO great. A tornado of energy.
Groucho was just pissed off that he couldn't even come close to even attempting what Jack has done.
jack lalannes such a fucking boss
loved Jack . Started watching him in the early 60's .... class act , full of positive energy !
me early 70s brother. when i was 6
Rest in peace Jack. Your legend will live forever.
Jack is a living legend
Jack knew what he was doing then, and still knows to this day. Awesome guy! It's too bad more people didn't pay attention to him.
Jack La Lane an AMERICAN LEGEND.....a great man an inspiration to millions
Jack was the man
And it's not just how long he's lived. It's how much he's lived this long.
Rest in Peace, Jack....
Jack LaLane and Groucho Marx together is pretty classic.
Groucho Marx's business is to make people laugh, he didn't really mean it.
Jack LaLanne, he is a legend and a great example that we must aspire.
"Jack, my advice to you is to swim back to Alcatraz and stay there!". I love Jack but that line from Groucho was pretty hilarious.
I miss those days, I think 50's America was the best time to ever live, go watch a drive thru with your sweetheart then go to the diner etc, those were the days, I'd much rather relive the 50's than live today.
sure was a handsome man
Jack was truly incredible. Pneumonia cut his life short at 96. 1033 pushups in 23 minutes is 45 per minute average. Plus he did (just going from memory) something like 1000 Jumping Jacks in the same hour of LIVE TV.
I love how Jack had such great respect for Groucho and still got his message across.
I bet Jack outlived every single person in that Audience. What a great man he was. Groucho might have aged him a day because of the cigar smoker.
Very handsome! And debonair and well spoken!
Thanks for posting this, Jack's dad died young, he called it 'suicide'. Jack made it to 95 and helped so many succeed at feeling better mentally. He loved helping people feel better! Groucho seemed to enjoy blowing the cigar smoke Jack's way. Groucho was always so fresh, the aspiring actress and Jack seeking to draw more fans to his morning show. 1 1/2 hours he was given 5 days a week! His shows were very popular, even to those still on the couch with the remote. Love my Jack La Lanne Juicer!
Most beautiful duck I've ever seen
Thank you for that corraborative anecdote. I've never smoked, but had a neighbor a year younger than me who from her teens smoked heavily. Last year she was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer that metastasized and so required brain surgery.
This Groucho show was (I presume) from before the 1961 US Surgeon General official report that smoking does cause cancer, and that first required labeling on cigarette packages that smoking is a health hazard. Soon after, tobacco ads were banned on tv.
you were right about everything Jack . There will never be a more positive human being than Jack La Lane.R.I.P.
RIP Jack. We will miss you. May the Lord keep you.
smokin' & drinkin' Groucho lived to 86; Jack to 96.
LaLanne would probably have lived to 106 if he didn't refuse to see a doctor to check his pneumonia.
Groucho died 2 months short of his 87th birthday, and in his elderly years, suffered dementia, a heart attack, congestive heart failure, a broken hip from falling- twice!, a urinary track infection, hypertension, and a stroke. Lalanne at 96 felt well enough to do his long exercise routine only 24 hours before he died.
On the morning before Lalanne died at age 96, he did more exercise than the average person does In a week.
@@nycinstyle yes people forget "quality of life."
@@2Tall_Powerlifting Also like 10 years is nothing. lol 10 years being free and healthy is something no one wants to give up. Groucho also suffered pain and discomfort in later years due to illnesses. So, it is a lot more than just 10 years. It is many more years being healthy. I am not writing to be mean. I wish everybody could eat healthy, cheat if you want once a week, not incredibly bad. lol And exercise regularly. Almost everyone would be happier, in general. Much happier. Looking and feeling really good.
Jack Lalanne doesn't look 44
I bet Jack wanted to punch Groucho right in the mustache. lol
Naaaaah Jack had a great sense of humor :) He was a gentle-man.
That was Groucho's bit. Groucho once said he couldn't insult people when he was mad because people would think it was Groucho being Groucho and laugh.
Jack died at 96,,completely healthy and powerfull but this other guy ..., i really dont know....Jack was 50-60 years ahead of his era....
Even Groucho can't get under Jack's skin. What a powerful positive insperation.
I think Grouch is funny as all get out. Jack Lalanne knew what it was going to be like when he came on the show. Good night, he enjoyed it, don't know why others are getting bent out of shape and...by the way, Groucho lived to be 86 years old himself...That's quite an achievement in itself..and especially seeing how the guy was born in 1890
That woman is 20 yrs old! No way...I would've guessed 45.
+Raechel Dossa that was a lie, no way she's 20
Me too
Ouch!
As much as I love this show, I always feel sorry for the guests. They weren't used to being on TV in those days, and were much easier to embarrass. I wonder how Groucho would have fared doing this show now. I'd love to see that! Wonder if that girl ever became an actress. Jack is such a regular guy. Got to love that about him.
I paddled from fair Long Island to San Francisco on a surfboard in 9 and half hours in ruff water that was non stop. Holy shit that's freaking amazing.
Hahaha! Jack was just as fast as Groucho!
Jack lived to the age of 96. His brother Norman lived to be 97.
We will miss you buddy...a great inspiration to motivatrion and fitness
@spiderman5402 Jack was soooooooo far ahead of his time and what a gentleman he was taking Groucho's ribbing so well. He had so much to offer and was so eager to offer it to the world - and yes, he was a very handsome man!
its about quality of life too.
Jack looks younger than Evelyn.
It was a comedy show!!! David Lettermen and Jay Leno would do the same thing today. Lighten up!!! This was hardley the right venue for La lanne to spread his message, and he probablly knew that going in.
It's been surmised that Groucho's aggressive verbal routine came from dealing with hostile vaudeville crowds. It evolved into a character and Groucho became the character. That was his shtick, love it or hate it.
I thought if anyone would live to be 100, it would be Jack La Lanne. But, 96 is a good, long life. As a kid, I like to do jumping jacks. along with you.
two legends!
Jack Lalanne is a great guy. I know him personally. Jack will be celebrating his 100th birthday soon. If Groucho would have listened to Jack and taken vitamin pills and quit smoking cancer sticks then Groucho would still have been here today.
@KDoyle4 , my friend the matter is not to live many years as Norman did, but to live a life till you reach your limits with tons of vitality like Jack did till his sudden death...if i stop exercise, perhaps i reach 100 like my grandpa did but after my 40s , i will live like an oldman....
RIP dear Jack.
Sounded like Groucho was a feeling a little jealous 😏
Jack you are freaking legend and a true gentlemen...enjoy heaven!
He would probably still be around and stronger than most of todays young people if not for pneumonia
You are very right. I didn't realize how insulting he was until I saw him on UA-cam.
3:50 audience gasp that Jack is advertising his products. now let's go out to our Desoto Plymouth and smoke a Lucky Strike cigarette.
RIP Jack La Lane
Klutzyknockoutlady, my uncle died at 60 after 15 years of smoking cigars: ever see someone with throat cancer? Months before he died, he had a pouch on the side of his throat and his voice was a raspy whisper. Ditto Sue Randall, much younger, the actress who played Beav's teacher on Leave It To Beaver, ex- happy smoker on Newport tv ads. My sister's boyfriend having smoked since his teens, died of lung cancer at 48 (looked and acted in his 90's; pathetic, and I mean that with pity).
No one is born in Frisco. Jack is a rare one indeed.
*horn out of nowhere* For no reason a girl in a cage is lowered from the sky gives jack 50 bucks and kisses the old dude, gets back in the cage and the old guy says something about her being your mother.........WTF
This vid cracked me up!!
Lol...so full of pills.
I love Jack!
He doesn't hate anyone, just sugar.
Some people (like George Burns) seem naturally hardy and genetically enabled for longevity. In his case, he may have just used the cigar (like Groucho in Groucho's early films, but not on this show) as a theatrical prop, before the cameras. He may not have inhaled. Too, George Burns was a calm, steady pragmatic thinker with a philosophical sense of humor about life who created and controlled his career and realities. Gracie unfortunately was not so hardy. His emotional resilience got him to 101.
2:15-3:10. One of the best damn jokes. The Godfather of Fitness had an amazing degree of humor. I can't believe that people laughed more at Groucho's punchline than Jack's joke.
I would pull out the kitchen chair and do the morning workout when I was a kid in Los Angeles. R.I.P. Jack...
Not to mention he smoked cigars like a chimney
Would you rather give the man 70 and girl 30? haha - couldnt get away with saying that now. Good old days.
Groucho is literally the majority of the world today. Confused, unsure, cannot comprehend, and slightly insecure to someone who really embraces life fully and makes no excuses. Literally none.
That's basically true...30 minutes watching this guy is 5000 times more effective than all those things you see on the telly today..if you apply what he says to your life. (well..I haven't really watched TV in a year so I dunno wtf is on now).
Jack is so self-absorbed and long-winded that Groucho has a tough time playing off him.
jack lalanne helped me escape from alcatraz-markwaynecunningham, paranoid schizophrenic
Wonderful!!!
If I doubled my life, I'd be his age - but then imagining after that living in this video, but then continue on to living onto the world of so much technology we have today----it's so weird to think about. (If I made sense. Probably not).
RIP Jack LaLanne.
R.I.P. Jack Lelanne, You were always right!
Groucho and David Letterman seem to have similar comedic style. Even the tone and rythm of thier voices is very similar. I wonder if David used Groucho as a model when developing his comedic style.
Why all the negativity toward these two guys? Part of Groucho 's routine was comic insult. It's all done in good fun. And Lalanne is a fitness pioneer who has helped improve the lives of millions of people.
1 womb 1 heart 1 love 1 life legacy 1 Jack La Lanne 1 truth
Jack was a good sport in spite of Groucho's joking around. Curious, Groucho also lived to an advanced age if I'm not mistaken.
You people need to lighten up, everyone knows what Groucho was all about, and everyone knows that he was just kidding. That's what Groucho and his shows are all about. I'm sure the people that were on his shows are aware of that.
that was his job.
RIP Jack La Lanne
Don't recall this episode in any of the shows available for sale, and I have
most of those availabvle now. Have any further shows popped up on DVD ?
R.I.P.
Ok, if I was Jack I would tell this Groucho to stop smoking near me U.U
Plus, you smoke on television.. then what's the message you give to people?
But he was damn funny too: "My advice is that you swim back to Alcatraz and stay there", lol.
It was funny, but in the long run.. with his 96 years of life, I think proved something. Something that should be followed by all of us!
Lordy! Clash of the Titans. Groucho's wit vs. Jack's fitness.I can't tell who won
Man oh man, Grocho didn't pull any punches did he.
lol dang jack looks younger then most of the people in the show right there.
I have always been a fan of Groucho & The Marx Brothers, in their films that mostly satirized overinflated pretense. But in the 1940s through 1950s and again in 1970s (through today), a few brave lone pioneers like Jack LaLanne started in America and Europe a mass movement to eat and exercise for best possible health ... and such pioneers were rudely and roundly ridiculed as "health nuts"--as here, Jack extendedly by Groucho ... whose cigar smoking shortened his own life and his emulators'.
sugar777, yes, she does look much older than 20.
Well I'd like to turn the other CHEEK, but I think you've already done that for me :)
(cont.) And tv host Johnny Carson, a heavy smoker, died of emphysema. Years before that, the Hollywood actor Yul Brynner, a former heavy smoker, a few months before he died of lung cancer, did a valuable PSA educational video announcement to children and all smokers, saying that when you see this video, I will have died from smoking, so don't smoke.
Stupid idiot Johnny Carson said, "I'll quit smoking when my doctor says I have to."
Proof that Frank Morris and the two mothers may just have survived their escape.
CORRECTION: I meant to say "others," not "mothers." LMAO!
(cont.) The three oldsters you cite lived long despite (not because of) their smoking that might have been mostly a dramatic prop: they were career successful, monied comedians, had a sense of humor, were slim.
How I (a lifelong nonsmoker with healthy lifestyle, exercise and diet) looked at my high school 30th reunion: age 30, per greeters at door who nearly didn't admit me.
Cool video, brings back memories. Jack was so right! Diet and exercise. Get some.
@Uushilumbu79 The show was designed to be a platform for Groucho and his comedy, everything else was secondary. Everyone who came on the show should have known that prior to coming on the show.
Well I'm 40 and look and feel like a 20 year old.LOL to each is own:)
for some reason women back then looked older..then there age..look at some of the old videos of say the dick Clark show in the 50's...and you will see the girls looking older then the boys....p.s. jack was ahead of his time...rip jack
Jack had the last laugh--he lived to 96, healthy and happy.Groucho as a career satirist comedian never learned a central philosophical fact about satire: truth and true goodness (especially nobility and heroism, such as Jack LaLanne's) are unsatirizable. From antiquity the aim of satire is to deflate and dethrone falsehood, folly, vice and evil, and to restore truth, wisdom, virtue and high hopes, aims and achievements.A satirist is always inferior to a true, good, noble person and lofty artist.
Jacqueline was a honey it's a total Barney
thank you ! I laughed a lot this was fun!
@loftymuses - I've seen Jack Lalanne in conversation with courteous interviewers, so it can happen. But watching this one, I too was wondering if something was wrong; it could've just been me, but there seemed to be some tension between Groucho and Jack, as if maybe they'd had some kind of confrontation before the show.
thanks for that ...it amaze's me how people can always find something insulting to say about short men and not one who is tall. I just finished watching on the military channel men who have been awarded the medal of honor and most of them were short men. And yet they did what most people expect a tall man to do. Society has branded them and its shameful.
I agree with you.