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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Sorry Ladies, But We Couldn't Pass This Up
'A man's only as old as the woman he feels.' --Groucho Marx. If it helps any, just think of this as a wry companion to the previous post.
I wonder which comedian really is the master of the one-liner. Groucho has to be a contender and I suppose Bob Hope. For the Brits I would nominate Ken Dodd – not sure how well he is known outside the UK but he made the Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest ever joke-telling session: 1,500 jokes in three and a half hours (7.14 jokes per minute). He’s in his eighties now and still performing. I’m not sure he’d be the master of the one-liner but I’d put money on his as the master of the throwaway. Only living actor to ever play Yorick – seriously, look it up.
Jim, thanks for teaching us something about Ken Dodd. I will indeed check him out online. As for Bob Hope, despite his having been born in my own town of Cleveland, I don't think he remotely deserves to be considered in this company. To me, he will forever be the king of cornball comedy.
Sorry Ladies, But We
...explains a lot.
ReplyDelete...and it goes both ways.
...when I close my eyes and touch the parts of my skin that have never hit sunlight, I feel pretty young myself, so there's another way it goes.
It indeed goes both ways, as we noted in our earlier exploration of the "cougar" phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteKass, you are a gem.
ReplyDeleteI wonder which comedian really is the master of the one-liner. Groucho has to be a contender and I suppose Bob Hope. For the Brits I would nominate Ken Dodd – not sure how well he is known outside the UK but he made the Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest ever joke-telling session: 1,500 jokes in three and a half hours (7.14 jokes per minute). He’s in his eighties now and still performing. I’m not sure he’d be the master of the one-liner but I’d put money on his as the master of the throwaway. Only living actor to ever play Yorick – seriously, look it up.
ReplyDeleteJim, thanks for teaching us something about Ken Dodd. I will indeed check him out online. As for Bob Hope, despite his having been born in my own town of Cleveland, I don't think he remotely deserves to be considered in this company. To me, he will forever be the king of cornball comedy.
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