Kliph Nesteroff found this on YouTube and put it on his blog but it's so good, I have to steal it for mine. It's Strictly For Laffs, an unsold pilot starring Dave Barry. About every three years, someone does some variation of this idea: Have a bunch of comedians just sit around and tell jokes. This one's not bad and you may want to spend the 22 minutes it'll take to watch the whole thing. We can figure out roughly when this pilot was filmed from the content. There's a joke in there about John F. Kennedy getting votes of questionable validity so it would have to be after the presidential election on November 8, 1960. But Mel Blanc is in it and unharmed so it would have to be before his near-fatal auto accident on January 24, 1961.
I'm going to hazard a guess as to why it didn't sell. Given the rock-bottom budget and low production values, it was clearly done for syndication. But I'll bet that when they offered it to stations, they had no idea where to put it on their schedules. It's not a daytime show. It's not a prime-time show. It's not a late night show. If you put a half-hour on the air, you kind of have to "marry it" with a similar half-hour program and there were no similar half-hour programs.
I'm most interested in Dave Barry, who was a wonderful stand-up comic and an occasional cartoon voice actor. He's the guy who did Humphrey Bogart in most of the Warner Brothers cartoons where someone did Bogart. He also turned up in a lot of other cartoons and was briefly Elmer Fudd and Popeye's nemesis, Bluto. Also on Strictly For Laffs, we have Alan Reed (best known as the voice of Fred Flintstone), Rose Marie (from The Dick Van Dyke Show), Sid Melton (from The Danny Thomas Show and Green Acres), Harold Peary (The Great Gildersleeve), Willard Waterman (also The Great Gildersleeve), Marvin Miller (from The Millionaire) plus Jesse White, Mel Blanc, Ken Murray, Buddy Lester, Moe Howard (!), Jack Durant, Tommy Noonan, a few others and Paul Gilbert. Gilbert was a comic actor who was famous for being able to do an amazing flip/pratfall. He did it a number of times on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In but was most famously the drunk who was judo-flipped by Laura Petrie in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show.
I think Rose Marie is the only person in it who's still with us. Next time I see her, I'll ask if she has any recollection of this at all…