Colgate Comedy Hour: S6E1, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis host

1955

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(DVD Quality) Aired: September 18, 1955 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis host the season premiere of the series now titled The Colgate Variety Hour. The show opens with Martin as Hal April, the host of The $64,000,000 Question. Lewis plays returning champ Morty M.M. Morton who, against his will, is risking his winnings for more cash. Once he survives a ridiculously hard question in the isolation booth, he's ready for the $64,000,000 question. He's given headphones and placed in a huge tank of water. As Martin reads the long question, he keeps shoving Lewis underwater, which leads to many ad-libs from the soaking wet Jerry. At one point, a sputtering Lewis yells, 'Haven't you heard? The feud is over!" On a train station set, Dean sings "Nevertheless, I'm in Love With You." In a pool hall sketch, Martin is trying to play a game, but Lewis shows up causing nothing but distractions. Before it's all over, they're both covered in chalk dust. He then pitches Martin on a song he's written called, "Yetta, I Can't Forget Her." When Martin passes on it, Lewis turns on the radio to hear Sinatra singing it. They wrap up the sketch by stepping in front of the curtain and performing "Side by Side." This version talks about their recent feuding and how they're now made up. A boxer (Lewis) makes his debut as a singer, with his nose taped down and lots of "dees" and "dohs" in the lyric. In a nightclub setting, Martin performs "I Like 'Em All." Then Lewis comes out to plug their new movie You're Never Too Young. He then introduces Freddie Bell and the Bellhops who perform the rock-and-roll song "Rock'a Beat Boogie." Dean and Jerry join the band for a crazy rock tune called "Shake a Hand", with Lewis doing a whole lot of shaking and shrieking. In the final break, they thank Sinatra for singing "Yetta" earlier and plug his appearance in Our Town "tomorrow night on NBC color and black and white networks." They then reprise their "Side by Side" number as the credits roll.