People Are Funny
NBC
NBC · 1942–1960
Broadcasts
60
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1942
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1942–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 60
- Genre
- variety
People Are Funny ran from 1942 to 1960, hosted for most of its life by Art Linkletter, who sent audience members out on elaborate stunts and reported the results the following week. These recordings stream from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
15 dated broadcasts across 85 years on the air, with 83 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. A Room Above the Street · 17 Jun 2025
- 2. Signal at Midnight · 24 Jun 2025
- 3. The Last Train Out · 1 Jul 2025
- 01
Night Broadcast
4 Aug 2026 · 47 min
- 02
The Last Train Out
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 2m
- 03
Signal at Midnight
21 Jul 2026 · 25 min
- 04
A Room Above the Street
14 Jul 2026 · 40 min
- 05
The Long Silence
7 Jul 2026 · 55 min
- 06
Dead Air
30 Jun 2026 · 18 min
- 07
Sign Off
23 Jun 2026 · 33 min
- 08
The Case of the Missing Hour
16 Jun 2026 · 48 min
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