I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.

After a stroke in 1993 he became incapacitated and died in 1999 in Pebble Beach California. Funt also produced a syndicated version of Candid Camera from 1974 to 1979; his co-hosts included at various times John Bartholomew Tucker Phyllis George and Jo Ann Pflug. He followed Candid Kids (Bernard Geis 1964) with Candidly Allen Funt: A Million Smiles Later (Barricade Books 1994).

Its most notable run was from 1960 to 1967 on CBS.