[citation needed] Following the war, Kirby hosted Club Matinee in Chicago with Garry Moore on the NBC Blue radio network before moving to television in 1949 as an announcer.

[citation needed] In the summer of 1951, he was host of G. E. Guest House on CBS, replacing Oscar Levant after the third episode.

Then as the cameras followed, she excitedly ran off stage into the audience to greet Kirby and his wife before returning to complete her monologue.

[citation needed] Kirby acted in summer stock theater, including three years' appearances in productions at the Cherry County Playhouse in Michigan.

"[1] An embarrassing moment came during a Polaroid commercial, during which he forgot to pull the tab after taking a picture of Garry Moore holding his Christmas list.

[citation needed] Kirby's name was spoofed in the animated series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, wherein a man's hat (size 7-5/32) was called the "Kirward Derby".

Jay Ward, producer of The Bullwinkle Show, even offered to pay Kirby to sue him; however, he did not pursue any further action.

The title track of the 1972 album Scraps by NRBQ includes the line: "I know a mellow-roonie boy named Durward Kirby; I yelled in his ear and wondered if he heard me."

In the movie Pulp Fiction (1994), the character Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) orders a "Durward Kirby" burger.