Eddie Cantor

The Colgate Comedy Hour was a comedy variety series that ran on NBC-TV
from September 1950 to December 1955, Sundays at 8:00 p.m. For the first 
year the show was broadcast from New York. Stars of the show were mostly
veterans of vaudeville, Broadway, radio, or movies, who took turns hosting,
in four or five week cycles. In the first few seasons, those most frequently
seen were Eddie Cantor (above), who was the first host, Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Abbott & Costello, Donald O’Connor,
and Jimmy Durante. The Colgate Comedy Hour was truly one of the
bright spots of early television.

The career of actress Jo Anne Worley has covered television, films, theater,
both game and talk shows, commercials, and cartoons. She is best known
for part in the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In on NBC from
1968 to 1973.

Bob Newhart, is a stand-up comedian and actor. He became well-known in
the 1960s when his album of comedy monologues The Button-Down Mind
of Bob Newhart. It was a worldwide bestseller and reached #1 on the
Billboard pop music charts and remains the 20th best-selling comedy
album in history. Newhart later went into acting, starring in two long-
running and prize-winning sitcoms, The Bob Newhart Show on CBS
from 1972 to 1978 and Newhart from 1982 to 1990, also on CBS.  

 
           (August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003)