The Ed Sullivan Show

– Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert singing "Tonight"; the members of the Jets gang performing "Cool".

West Side Story

– Julie Andrews singing "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?"; Rex Harrison performing "Why Can't the English?"; Stanley Holloway performing "With a Little Bit of Luck; John Michael King singing "On the Street Where You Live"

My Fair Lady

– Richard Burton and Julie Andrews performing an extended scene including the title song and "What Do the Simple Folk Do?"; Robert Goulet singing "If Ever I Would Leave You" and "C'est Moi".^[43]

Camelot

(1961 New York City Center revival) – Andrew Frierson singing "Ol' Man River", and Carol Bruce, from the 1946 Broadway revival, singing "Bill".

Show Boat

– Anna Maria Alberghetti singing "Love Makes the World Go 'Round".

Carnival!

– Dick Van Dyke singing "Put On A Happy Face", Chita Rivera singing "Spanish Rose", Paul Lynde singing "Kids" and "Hymn for a Sunday Evening (Ed Sullivan)".

Bye Bye Birdie

– Georgia Brown singing "As Long as He Needs Me"; Davy Jones singing "Consider Yourself"; Georgia Brown, Davy Jones, Alice Playten, Bruce Prochnik, Clive Revill and the boys singing "I'd Do Anything". The performance was on February 9, 1964 – on the same telecast as The Beatles' first live performance.^[44]

Oliver!

– John Raitt, Celeste Holm, Florence Henderson and Barbara Cook performing the title song; Celeste Holm (from the original Broadway cast) performing "I Can't Say No".

Oklahoma!

– Gwen Verdon performing "I'm A Brass Band" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now".

Sweet Charity

– Anthony Newley singing "Who Can I Turn To?".

The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd

– Liza Minnelli singing "All I Need Is One Good Break" and "Sing Happy"

Flora the Red Menace

– Pat Suzuki performing "I Enjoy Being a Girl".

Flower Drum Song

– Carol Channing singing "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend".

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

– the cast (including Diane Keaton, Melba Moore, Paul Jabara and co-authors Gerome Ragni and James Rado) performing "Aquarius".

Hair

– Pearl Bailey (from the all-black 1967 revamping of the show) performing "Before the Parade Passes By" with the ensemble.

Hello, Dolly!

A performance by dancer Wayne Lamb

Broadway

– Gordon MacRae and Carol Lawrence (Broadway replacements for Mary Martin and Robert Preston) singing the title song from the show, and MacRae singing "I Love My Wife" and "My Cup Runneth Over".

I Do! I Do!

– Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, and Harold Lang singing "Another Op'nin' Another Show", "We Open In Venice", and "Wunderbar"

Kiss Me, Kate

– Richard Kiley singing the title song and "The Impossible Dream"; Joan Diener in a rare television appearance in her stage role as Aldonza/Dulcinea singing "What Does He Want of Me?", most of the cast singing the show's final reprise of "The Impossible Dream"

Man of La Mancha

– Joel Grey singing part of "Wilkommen" and Jill Haworth in her stage role as Sally Bowles singing the title song

Cabaret

– Melba Moore singing "I Got Love" and "Purlie".

Purlie

– Lucille Ball and Paula Stewart singing "Hey, Look Me Over"

Wildcat

– Gary Burghoff, Reva Rose, Bob Balaban, Skip Hinnant, Karen Johnson, and Bill Hinnant singing the title song and "Happiness".

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

also occasionally appeared singing hit songs from the shows that she starred in, including Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy, Happy Hunting, Panama Hattie, and Anything Goes.

Ethel Merman

and Maurice Chevalier performed their duet "I Remember It Well" from the 1958 film Gigi, on the show.

Hermione Gingold

1948–1949: N/A

1949–1950: N/A

1950–1951: #15, 3,723,000 viewers

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1951–1952: N/A

1952–1953: N/A

1953–1954: #17, 8,580,000 viewers

[58]

1954–1955: #5, 12,157,200 viewers

[59]

1955–1956: #3, 13,785,500 viewers

[60]

1956–1957: #2, 14,937,600 viewers

[61]

1957–1958: #27, 11,444,160 viewers

[62]

1958–1959: N/A

1959–1960: #12, 12,810,000 viewers

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1960–1961: #15, 11,800,000 viewers

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1961–1962: #19, 11,381,525 viewers

[65]

1962–1963: #14, 12,725,900 viewers

[66]

1963–1964: #8, 14,190,000 viewers

[67]

1964–1965: #16, 13,280,400 viewers

[68]

1965–1966: #18, 12,493,200 viewers

[69]

1966–1967: #13, 12,569,640 viewers

[70]

1967–1968: #13, 13,147,440 viewers

[71]

1968–1969: #23, 12,349,000 viewers

[72]

1969–1970: #27, 11,875,500 viewers

[73]

1970–1971: N/A

was best known for his uncanny impersonation of Sullivan as the show's host.

Will Jordan

Numerous music videos, such as 's "Tell Her About It" (featuring Will Jordan as Sullivan), Nirvana's "In Bloom", Grinspoon's "Hold On Me", Outkast's "Hey Ya!", the Red Hot Chili Peppers's "Dani California" and Bring Me the Horizon's "Drown" have all parodied the show's visual style.

Billy Joel

open their concerts with prerecorded footage of a man doing an intentionally poor Sullivan impression in black and white and then introducing the band, which plays the first part of the show with an exact recreation of the set the Beatles used.

Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles

(1978), a mockumentary about a fictional group, the Rutles. The film contains original footage of Sullivan introducing the Beatles with some audio redubbed for comedic effect.

All You Need Is Cash

a Beatles tribute act hosted by an Ed Sullivan impressionist.

The Fab Four

One of the characters in , a children's live action TV series with a cast of chimpanzees dubbed by actors' speaking voices, is "Ed Simian", a parody of Sullivan.

Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp

George Carlin included a routine titled Ed Sullivan Self Taught on his 1972 album FM & AM.

Comedian

actor and impressionist, included a Sullivan imitation in his repertoire.

John Byner

On an episode of , Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis did a parody called The Toast of the Colgate Town, with Lewis wearing fake teeth and slicked-back hair as "Ed Solomon".^[74]

The Colgate Comedy Hour

In the episode "Harry Canary" in the animated series , it was named "The Earvin Mulligan Show" as Lloyd's family were performing in the late 60s as "The Happy Dunne Family".

Dumb and Dumber

The first episode of the on August 30, 1993, featured clips of Ed Sullivan spliced together to make it look as though he was introducing host David Letterman, while a segment later in the episode featured David channeling the "ghost" of Ed Sullivan, this time an archive clip of Sullivan introducing actor Paul Newman, who was live in the Letterman audience that night. Since moving to CBS from NBC, Letterman taped his show in the Ed Sullivan Theater, the studio where Sullivan also staged his program, until his 2015 retirement.^[75]

Late Show with David Letterman

The –directed film That Thing You Do! has the Beatles-esque band The Wonders performing in The Hollywood Television Showcase, complete with a caption over the band's lead singer similar to Lennon's "Sorry Girls! He's Married!" The scene was shot at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, which Sullivan used for his West Coast shows.

Tom Hanks

The 1954 film features a pivotal scene that occurs on "The Ed Harrison Show", which was intentionally similar to Sullivan's show.

White Christmas

The 1960s animated television series featured a parody of Sullivan as "Ed Sulleystone" on the episode "Itsy Fred". On the episode called "Lola Brickada", Sullivan was referred to as "Ed Stonevan". Sullivan is also seen introducing "Roc Roll" in another episode, but his name is not mentioned. And in the episode where Fred brings home a lion cub, Barney performs a trick with the now grown up lion and mentioned that he saw a similar stunt on the "Ed Shalevan" show.

The Flintstones

On the animated sitcom , "Fred Solarvan" introduces Gina Lola Jupiter, causing George Jetson to order his son Elroy to leave the room and do his geometry homework tapes. After Elroy leaves, George sets his receiver to 3-D viewing, causing Gina to seemingly to pop out of the TV set.

The Jetsons

did a comedy skit in the 1970s (also featured on his 1974 album Holes and Mellow Rolls as "Ed Sullivan, Ed Sullivan"), that had him impersonate a drunken Sullivan on his final show, being nasty in general to his audience and guest stars, and finally saying good night to the audience.

Gabe Kaplan

The 1994 film features a scene in a 50s–60s-themed restaurant where Jerome Patrick Hoban does an imitation of Ed Sullivan introducing acts.

Pulp Fiction

The direct-to-video children's film : You Make Me Feel Like Dancing! includes a video for the song "Shimmy Shake" which depicts the group appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show. Paul Paddick portrayed Sullivan for the video.

The Wiggles

In the manga series , an omake was drawn in which the Straw Hat Pirates, along with other prominent characters, are all tied into one large fiasco that ends with a party. It is called The Ed Sullivan Show only in name.

One Piece

In Tom Dudzick's 2002 play, Over the Tavern, set in 1959, 12 year-old Rudy Pansicki regularly rehearses his Ed Sullivan impression, with emphasis on Sullivan's supposed pronunciation of "show" as "shoe".

The Broadway musical features a scene where Four Seasons band member Tommy DeVito imitates Sullivan introducing "Topo Gigio and the Vienna Boys Choir" before bringing Frankie Valli on stage for the first time.

Jersey Boys

The used a segment of Ed Sullivan shaking Buddy Holly's hand on The Ed Sullivan Show for their music video for "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?"

Ramones

On , in the episode "Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow", black and white footage is shown of Terrance and Philip appearing on the show as children.

South Park

On The Tonight Show, sometimes invoked a Sullivan impression, quoting Sullivan's oft-used introduction "Right here on our stage..."

Johnny Carson

In an episode of titled "Cool Cat Blues" (1961), The Cat must stop a rival network from kidnapping "Ed Solvent", who maintained his rigid, stoic on-air demeanor by freezing himself in a block of ice before each show. Will Jordan provided the voice of Solvent

Modern Madcaps

A 1972 ABC summer series "The Kopykats" featured a sketch in which as Sullivan announces he's hired a stand-in for himself. The entire cast (which included Rich Little, Frank Gorshin, Edie Adams) portrayed a staff & crew who all sounded like Sullivan. When the "stand-in" is introduced, it's Sullivan himself... but his version of himself bombs.

Will Jordan

In the 1984 mockumentary, the band is shown in archival footage playing an Ed Sullivan-like television show.

This Is Spinal Tap

(2002). Stay Tuned: Television's Unforgettable Moments. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, ISBN 0-7407-2693-5.

Garner, Joe

(February 6, 2004). "Teen Spirit: What Was So Important About the Beatles' Appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show?". Slate Magazine. Archived from the original on April 10, 2005.

Kaplan, Fred

. Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan's America. Berkeley, California: University of California Press; 2009. ISBN 978-0-520-25867-9 p. 331.

Nachman, Gerald

Ilson, Bernie. Sundays with Sullivan: How the Ed Sullivan Show brought Elvis, the Beatles and Culture to America. Lanham, Maryland: Taylor Trade Publishing, (2009).  978-1-58979-390-3 pp. 115–118 (entire chapter devoted to Marlo Lewis).

ISBN

John Leonard; Claudia Falkenburg & Andrew Solt, eds.. A Really Big Show: A Visual History of the Ed Sullivan Show. New York: Sarah Lazin/Viking Studio Books; 1992.  978-0-670-84246-9.

ISBN

James Maguire. Impresario: The Life and Times of Ed Sullivan. New York: Billboard Books; 2006.  978-0-8230-7962-9.

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