page_title: Bennett Cerf
section_title: Game show appearances
hierarchical_section_title: Bennett Cerf / Game show appearances
caption_attribution_description: Photo of the original What's My Line? television set and panel of the show. From left: Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Hal Block and host John Daly.
context_page_description: Bennett Alfred Cerf was an American publisher and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line?
context_section_description: Prior to 1951, Cerf was an occasional panelist on the NBC game show Who Said That?, in which celebrities try to determine the speaker of quotations taken from recent news reports. In 1951, he began appearing weekly on What's My Line? and continued for 16 years until the show ended its run on CBS in 1967. Until his death, Cerf continued to appear regularly on the CBS Films, Inc. (now Viacom) syndicated version of What's My Line?, along with Arlene Francis. Cerf was known as "Bennett Snerf" in a Sesame Street puppet parody of What's My Line?. During his time on What's My Line?, Cerf received an honorary degree from the University of Puget Sound.
  Cerf was a juror at the Miss America contest twice.
caption: Left to right: Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Hal Block, host John Daly on the game show What's My Line?
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