Salvador Dali on "The Name's the Same" (first appearance, January 19, 1954)

Salvador Dali appears on the Goodson-Todman game show "The Name's the Same" (January 19, 1954), with host Robert Q. Lewis and panelists Gene Rayburn, Joan Alexander, and Bill Stern.
TNTS ran from December 1951 to October 1955 and was another oddball variant of "What's My Line?", a 20-questions type of show in which the gimmick was that the contestants' real names were the same as celebrities, places, things, etc. Thus Woodrow Wilson, Virginia Beach, A. Mule, Will Bathe, etc., ad absurdum.
As on WML every show had an appearance by a celebrity guest, and the gimmick here was that the guest had a secret ambition ("Who I'd Like To Be--just in fun, of course") or a "secret wish", and the panelists had to guess the secret.
Dali appeared several times on game shows from this period. This is the first of two appearances that he made on TNTS. His second appearance can be seen here: • Salvador Dali on "The ...

[@deCaravagio]

Those people even did not realized that there were in the same room with genius Dali.

[@jayizzett]

Dali was a fraud. He didn’t paint anything

[@gray_day4375]

@@jayizzett comment of typical ignorant

[@jayizzett]

GREY_DAY bet you can’t show him painting anything worth complimenting

[@silverkitty2503]

I know. I would probably faint and make a fool of myself though. So really maybe its best they didn't know. :)

[@GourmetGhouless]

Back to the great old times when TV shows were hilarious and great Dali was alive

[@NintendoThumb]

Those people paid him $275 and got a priceless Dali original. But, I'm curious if it got erased from it being on a chalkboard.

[@jmsescribano]

Un pintor genial y prodigioso el zenit del siglo XX en la pintura

[@jadeshannon5583]

Lucky audience

[@DCCLXII]

What a glorious mustache

[@paagung9702]

Dali...is The Beast Painting

[@VladislausDantes]

A figure 8 with a pointy hat. Does that say "infinite dunce" to anyone else?
I wouldn't exactly call it a stupid sketch when he can insult a patronizing TV host to his face and have him feel simply honored and confused.
Genius.

[@witherblaze]

Then why not make an infinity sign instead of an eight? The message would be a bit clearer.

[@wmlfan9]

Honestly now, when Salvidor Dali walked over to that easel weren't you expecting a heck of a lot more of an effort than what he delivered? Dali's appearance on "What's My Line" was much more entertaining.

[@2005dave]

A little Easter egg on that last title graphic: among the names on the card (right above the word “SAME”) is veteran ABC NY graphic artist Hy Bley, who designed those titles. Guess he just wanted to sneak his name in!

[@user-px8zs5me4k]

Very nice of you Dali?It's thank example I looked from a book last time I like.

[@NakedTongues]

there was a strange reality to most early TV, because of its lack of definition, it was somehow more real than what is on now odd, not sure of the reason but, yes, it was better

[@Schmuall]

I think the difference is this was completely unscripted. Unfortunately the majority of "reality" television nowadays (especially from America) has so much set up drama and completely fabricated storylines that it can't help but come across as fake

[@farswept]

Lewis thinks Dali's French?

[@vanilaoryza]

farswept he lived in France for some years and used to lived there some months à year, maybe his French is better than his English. Definitely I can see a French accent sometimes when he talks

[@fadekaro97]

Maybe. He's from Catalonia

[@user-fe8de2gu5v]

Dalí spoke fluent French

[@ranua9327]

@@fadekaro97 He was from the city of Figueras in Spain 🇪🇸.

[@nournme]

seriously, who are you to critique anything dali did? lol

[@karltiedemann9329]

As the old rejoinder goes: Who do you have to be?

[@ranua9327]

Dali must start with a capital letter...

[@fatemehkamelia9465]

😀👍

[@dynasticlight8706]

A Uneek Tekneek...eeeeeeeeeeeee

[@dr.quicksilver1630]

I'm getting no audio?!

[@killingmewillnotbringbacky9177]

jesus how many rip-offs of what's my line are there?

[@miceskin]

@VladislausDantes and leave all of youtube guessing except for two people; me and you.

[@Artix.dev.]

No

[@timothyball7502]

11-9-2022.
Too bad Bob Ross was born way after Dali. To compare the two would be amazing.

[@rochelle2053]

That one guy on the left drives me nuts 🙄

[@dinahbrown902]

Gene Rayburn of the Match Game. Don’t know about the spelling

[@torchkit]

And the sad part is, if someone actually kept that stupid sketch, it would be worth over a million today.

[@feelthelife4295]

I find Dali looks a bit like Hitler. Especially characteristic facial expressions.

[@clownstuf]

Pretty sure he was a neo nazi too
(Not completely sure tho)

[@dorukumuttuksal]

​@@clownstuf No, he was an opportunist, but in a human sense, his idea of art will seem not ideal to Nazis because it has connections to Sigmund Freud, a Jewish man.

[@ranua9327]

🙃

[@ranua9327]

@@dorukumuttuksal Indeed, he would be considered as a degenerated artist by the nazis.

[@jmsescribano]

Un pintor genial y prodigioso el zenit del siglo XX en la pintura