Fred Applegate

Character: Narrator (voice)

Jack Paar

Character: Self

Dick Cavett

Character: Self

Hugh Downs

Character: Self

Regis Philbin

Character: Self

Tom Shales

Character: Self

Tom Smothers

Character: Self

Dick Smothers

Character: Self

Hal Gurnee

Character: Self

Richard Kennedy

Character: Self

Woody Allen

Character: Self

Muhammad Ali

Character: Self

Liberace

Character: Self

Fidel Castro

Character: Self

Bill Cosby

Character: Self

John F. Kennedy

Character: Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Character: Self

Oscar Levant

Character: Self

Jonathan Winters

Character: Self

Robert Goulet

Character: Self

Peggy Cass

Character: Self

Vaughn Meader

Character: Self

Judy Garland

Character: Self

Robert F. Kennedy

Character: Self

Nat King Cole

Character: Self

Liza Minnelli

Character: Self

Shirley MacLaine

Character: Self

Dick Van Dyke

Character: Self