hour comedy variety series was  shot after Eddie Cantor (qv) suffered a heart attack in 1952. The  38 episodes played like Cantors Broadway show, with almost no  material dating beyond the Hoover administration. A lot of the  sketch routines were tackled by a wide range of guest stars  (Peter Lorre (I) (qv), Billie Burke (qv), the aging Three  Stooges, Eddie Fisher (qv), Stan Freberg (qv) and  Buster Keaton (qv), among others) with Cantor providing the  framework as host. Cantor performed in a running bit as a cabbie and  rehashed nearly every one of his pre