Hosts for the sixteenth annual Emmy Awards are Joey Bishop in Hollywood and E.G. Marshall in New York. Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore introduce this special telecast. Humorous excerpts from past Emmy Award telecasts are played. A galaxy of celebrities appear including Danny Kaye, Hugh Downs, Chet Huntley, Rod
Serling, Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Carl Reiner, David Janssen, Jerry Paris, James Franciscus, Dean Jagger, David Frost, John Daly, Don Defore, Shirley Booth, Tom Gries, James Drury, Roberta Shore, Polly Bergen, and Mel Brooks who with Reiner does a "2000 Year Old Man" skit. Other personalities appearing include Inger Stevens, Richard Deacon, Gene Barry, Ruth White, Zina Bethune, Shirl Conway, Garry Moore, Jack Klugman, Vince Edwards, Shelley Winters, Nat King Cole, Johnny Carson, Milton Berle, Lorne Greene. The cast from "That Was The Week That Was," Elliot Reid, Nancy Ames, Pat Englund, and David Frost satirize the 1963-64 television season. Jack Benny presents the Emmy Award for Program of the Year, "The Making of the President." Mel Stuart and David L. Wolper accept the award.             

A review of 20th century American political humor, with Jack Paar, satirist
Tom Lehrer, comic actor Elliot Reid, the Plaza 9 Players and the Buster Davis Singers. 

To open the show Jack Paar does a lengthy monologue.   

A review of 20th century American political humor. Films recall George Bernard Shaw's political spoofs, Will Rogers needling President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,  and Cal=vin Coolidge at official ceremonies, the Truman-Kaltenborn feud, Al Smith's musical campaigns, Fiorello La Guardia reading the funnies on the radio, Robert F. Kennedy giving a speech with his mother's "help," spoofs and ad-lib humor by Senator Everett M. Dirksen and Huey Long, Eleanor Roosevelt joking with serviceman during World War 2, Bess Truman's attempt to christen an airplane, and many other selections.

Songs heard include a campaign song medley "George Murphy, "The Great Society," others. 

Sketches: Convention impressions and Republican opinion Polls.

A David Wolper Production.           

Comedy special hosted by comedian Alan King. 
Theme of this broadcast is spoofing great American hassles. 
King sets the tone in satirical monologues on automobile recalls, junk mail, and TV schedule changes. There are numerous skits with guest stars. 

This is Alan King's ninth of twelve specials he did for ABC and NBC during a period of twelve consecutive years 
(April 9, 1968 - November 26, 1980).


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