October 5, 1950 –
You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx with his announcer George Fenneman, premiered on NBC-TV on this date. Its’ run lasted 11 years.
Not to creep you out but every single person in that audience is dead yet you’ve hear them your entire life – most of the canned laughter used on TV shows came from old You Bet Your Life Shows. So it’s literally – I hear dead people.
The Haus of Dcaligari 