Starring Dick Van Dyke

- Are you ready?

- Yes!

- Yes!

- Here we go.

(children cheering) (light percussive music) - [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, Dick Van Dyke!

- Well, Dick Van Dyke was one of my idols growing up.

♪ Oh, supercalifragilistic ♪ - [Julie] My friend Dick Van Dyke is an all-round performer.

- [Carol] He can sing, he can dance, he's a comedian, he can do pratfalls and be funny.

And he's also very sexy.

(feet tapping) (Dick claps) (audience laughs) - He was always bubbling over.

- [Martin] He'd come in and then do a brilliant fall over an ottoman.

How could you not be seduced by that?

- [Interviewee 1] In a lot of ways, he was like a cartoon come to life.

- [Interviewee 2] He was funny even if he wasn't talking.

I mean, he could have done the silent films.

(laughs) - [Ted] Stan Laurel, Buster Keaton, I mean, talk about physical comedy, and Dick Van Dyke.

I mean, he is in that category of performance.

- Oh mercy.

(audience laughs) (fist smacks) - The power of Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Duke together was something we just hadn't seen.

- He was a very big part of my childhood.

Dick Van Dyke was on my television when I was a little kid and he was in the movies that I loved.

- [Carol] Dick is effortlessly funny.

- Whew, thank you.

- There's no limit to his talent.

- I know he's gonna make me laugh, but he can also make you cry and think.

- [Martin] Reinventing yourself is just simply surviving in show business.

So I think that he no doubt went from great opportunity to great opportunity.

And if you have a great deal of talent, then you can do it.

(light magical music) - [Conan] He's perfect in every single way.

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