Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

One of the most popular shows of that era. You would never see a show like it on television today. Except, now you can watch the original by tuning to the Decades network. If you do be prepared to watch something almost surreal. Opera singers, ballet dancers, stand up comedians, vaudeville acts, mimes, circus acts, ventriloquists, the best rock and pop acts of the day(The Beatles!) and of course weird acts like Senor Wences, and the guy with the spinning dinner plates. Want to feel nostalgic, amused, and beguiled? Check it out.

Elvis, the Beatles, Barbra, Liza, puppets with acerbic views of life, acrobats, jugglers, everything old school vaudeville, Broadway shows, rock stars, all coming to life for decades in a show that still amazes audiences today when it pops up in frequent reruns. Ed Sullivan got a song in a Broadway show, "Bye Bye Birdie", where Paul Lynde and his family sang a homage to him about their adoration for Sunday Evenings of simple, well-rounded entertainment. The king of the variety show, Ed Sullivan has been imitated and spoofed for years, long even after his death, appearing as himself in a few movies (including "Bye Bye Birdie" and "The Singing Nun"), yet beloved even by those who weren't around when these shows first aired. While the seemingly square Ed Sullivan had influence going back years, long before changes in music had stuffy adults claiming, "Rock and roll has got to go!", that didn't stop him from changing with the times. If there was a new group coming out that was getting attention, they always ended up on his show. He never made his feelings about these groups known, although with performers like Elvis, filming them from above the waste to avoid allegedly explicit visuals and censorship issues. This was the basis for the spoof of Conrad Birdie in the Broadway hit, and even the homage to Ed got on the air, presented sweetly and not all with an air of ego.It's the Broadway clips I remember from re-runs of the show, whether the original casts of "The King & I", "My Fair Lady", "West Side Story" and "Camelot", or flops like "Pipe Dream", "I Had a Ball!" and "Gantry" late in the show's run. If Ed went to see a Broadway show, it was certain as apple pie as the all American desert that an invitation would be made to the producers and cast to get the show to perform on TV. Not every show became a hit because of an appearance on his show, but many of them had longer runs than they would have had they not been there. With over 20 years of episodes sitting out there, a treasure trove of entertainment awaits, whether it be forgotten acrobatic acts or puppeteers or superstar girl groups like the Supremes. Opening up the vaults to bring out the tired, the forgotten, the obscure, and showing modern audiences what American culture has been all about. Sometimes re-discovery can prove that everything old is new again.

I must say that I have become immersed in watching reruns of this awesome television classic as of late. Everything about it is great. It is my opinion that highlights of its series run include guest appearances by Elvis Presley, The Beatles and The Doors. Ed Sullivan was always a truly great and cordial host and it's very easy to see why this show is so fondly remembered even today.

I used to watch this program sometimes when I was growing up. Technically,of course, it is light years out of date--no flashy special effects, no elaborate staging, nothing except a host that acts like either a marble statue come to life, or a cold fish (take your choice!), and singers(pop and otherwise), actors, dancers, comedians, classical music virtuosos (such as then 13-year old Itzhak Perlman) and acrobats simply "doing their thing".I took it for granted then. I didn't realize that we were sometimes seeing rare, priceless footage that we would seldom, if ever, see again in the future, and that it contained such gems as original cast performers singing the hit songs from legendary Broadway classics such as "My Fair Lady", "West Side Story", "Camelot", and "Man of La Mancha"-in full costume, yet. I always thought, "Well,we have the albums,and there's no reason these segments wouldn't be rerun someday. Besides,we'll have the film versions of the shows,so who needs to be so eager to catch the Broadway performers?"How wrong I was.Because, up until the advent of video remastering and restoration, and the invention of the VCR, these shows disappeared, apparently gathering dust in the CBS archives because modern-day programming and technology had made them seem so old-fashioned. Now they are back. Some years ago,Disney had the foresight to issue a video called "The Best of Broadway Musicals from the Ed Sullivan Show", and this priceless tape, which has since been transferred to DVD, contained Julie Andrews singing "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?", Andrews and Richard Burton singing "What Do The Simple Folk Do?", Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert singing "Tonight",Richard Kiley singing "The Impossible Dream",etc. And recently, when Ed Sullivan was broadcast on Nick-At-Nite,not only was Kiley shown singing this song, but we were also given the rare treat of seeing the original Aldonza/Dulcinea, Joan Diener, singing the lovely "What Does He Want of Me", a song omitted from the film version of "Man of La Mancha".That is the kind of program this was.