Editing Victor Borge (section)

===Later career===
[[File:Victor-Borge.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Borge in 1990]]
Borge appeared on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show|Toast of the Town]]'' hosted by [[Ed Sullivan]] several times during 1948. He became a [[naturalization|naturalized citizen]] of the United States the same year. He started the ''[[Comedy in Music]] '' show at [[John Golden Theatre]] in [[New York City]] on 2 October 1953. ''Comedy in Music'' became the longest running one-man show in the history of theater with 849 performances when it closed on 21 January 1956, a feat which placed it in the ''[[Guinness World Records|Guinness Book of World Records]]''.<ref name="Young1998">{{cite book
|last=Young
|first=Mark
|title=The Guinness Book of World Records 1998
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSyswNFqTycC
|access-date=3 October 2010
|date=2 March 1998
|publisher=Bantam Books
|isbn=978-0-553-57895-9
|page=439
|quote=The longest run of one-man shows is 849, by Victor Borge (Denmark) in his Comedy in Music from October&nbsp;2, 1953 through 21 January 1956 at the Golden Theater, Broadway, New York City.}}</ref>

Continuing his success with tours and shows, Borge played with and conducted orchestras including the [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]],<ref>{{cite book
|author=Elliott Robert Barkan
|title=Making it in America: a sourcebook on eminent ethnic Americans
|url=https://archive.org/details/makingitinameric00bark
|url-access=registration
|access-date=3 October 2010
|date=May 2001
|publisher=ABC-CLIO
|isbn=978-1-57607-098-7
|page=[https://archive.org/details/makingitinameric00bark/page/47 47]}}</ref> the [[New York Philharmonic Orchestra|New York Philharmonic]]<ref>{{cite journal
|author=New York Media, LLC
|title=New York Magazine
|website=Newyorkmetro.com
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cNECAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54
|access-date=3 October 2010
|date=27 January 1978
|publisher=New York Media, LLC
|page=54
|issn=0028-7369}}</ref> and [[London Philharmonic Orchestra|London Philharmonic]].<ref>{{cite book
|author=H.W. Wilson Company
|title=Current biography yearbook
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a4cYAAAAIAAJ
|access-date=3 October 2010
|date=1 January 1993
|publisher=H.W. Wilson
|page=82}}</ref>  He appeared with the Cleveland Opera Company in Mozart's ''The Magic Flute'' in 1979 and at London's Royal Opera House Covent Garden in Bizet's ''Carmen'' in 1986.<ref name="HDD">{{cite book|author-last=Thomas |author-first=Alastair H. |title=Historical Dictionary of Denmark |date=26 July 2016 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPq6DAAAQBAJ |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=aPq6DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 74] |isbn=978-1-4422-6465-6}}</ref> Always modest, he felt honored when he was invited to conduct the [[Royal Danish Orchestra]] at the [[Royal Danish Theatre]] in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1992.<ref name="HDD"/> 

His later television appearances included his "Phonetic Punctuation" routine on ''[[The Electric Company]]'' in a filmed sketch.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf_TDuhk3No |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Qf_TDuhk3No| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Victor Borge – Phonetic Punctuation|last=Charles Bradley II|date=3 August 2013|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He would also use this sketch on ''[[The Electric Company]]'''s subsequent LP record, during its "Punctuation" song.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIsxPSgnrfA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/nIsxPSgnrfA| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=The Electric Company 1974 TV Soundtrack LP Record FULL ALBUM|website=[[YouTube]] |date=16 April 2015 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> In addition, he appeared several times on ''[[Sesame Street]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkE38Y7m1tM | title = YouTube – Victor Borge on Sesame Street | website = [[YouTube]] | date = 18 December 2006 | access-date =2 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl1YkUWs7BE| title = Victor Borge Meets Oscar The Grouch (''Sesame Street''), YouTube| website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkE38Y7m1tM| title = Victor Borge on ''Sesame Street'', YouTube| website = [[YouTube]]| date = 18 December 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNDotER9XEs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/PNDotER9XEs| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Sesame Street: Practicing With Victor Borge|last=Sesame Street|date=1 March 2011|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and he was a guest star during the [[List of The Muppet Show episodes#Series 4 (1979–1980)|fourth season]] of ''[[The Muppet Show]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5iCVytIbmk | title = YouTube – Victor Borge on the Muppet show | website = [[YouTube]] | access-date =2 October 2010 | date = 22 May 1979}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XShTTI7yYI| title = Victor Borge on ''The Muppet Show'', YouTube| website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJgUz_RwRcw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/hJgUz_RwRcw| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Victor Borge & The Muppets Orchestra – Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto|website=[[YouTube]] |date=4 October 2009 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Victor Borge continued to tour until his last days, performing up to 60 times per year when he was 90 years old. <ref>{{cite news|last=Holden|first=Stephen|author-link=Stephen Holden|title=Victor Borge, pianist who combined comedy and classical music, dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/25/arts/victor-borge-pianist-who-combined-comedy-and-classical-music-dies-at-91.html|access-date=25 July 2023|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=25 December 2000}}</ref> His microphone of choice since circa 1982 was the Shure SM59.