Boomer TV: 'The Moment of Truth' -- 1966-style
What’s the big whoop with Fox’s “The Moment of Truth?” I don’t get it. It’s mean-spirited and not even original.
Check out this much more amusing (and much less sadistic) moment of truth from a 1966 episode of the classic quiz show “I’ve Got a Secret.”
On the show, panelists Betsy Palmer, Bess Myerson, Henry Morgan and Bill Cullen get hooked up to an “emotion-reading machine” to gauge how they really feel when the special guest, insult comic Jack E. Leonard, zings them.
And by the way, “Fat Jack” (as he was known quite benignly in those pre-PC days) is one comic who is long overdue to be rediscovered. His barbed remarks paved the way for the much more acerbic Don Rickles, as well as the legions of putdown artists who followed.
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