Posted on 05/18/2013 8:06:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
My favorite Milton Berle joke involves Forrest Tucker. The punch line is “I only took out enough to win.” Or something like that.
Joan Rivers, in her autobiographical movie "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work" shows her jokes filed on cards in a card catalogue.
This thread is way more gay than I ever intended or hoped it would be.
Hey, it’s ‘part’ of his legacy, ya know.
third legacy?
I thought his legacy was the all-time world champion upstager. Defeated only once, by Joe Flaherty.
“Bob Hope had an entire joke vault with many jokes untold, written for him by paid writers. What happened to those? Maybe he willed it to someone, and they aren’t talking...maybe Crystal?”
Bob Hope’s papers, and 88,000 jokes belong to the American people and are kept at the Library of Congress in WDC. I’m pretty sure you can access all of his jokes at loc.gov. Hope was a true American.
Berle’s papers (not the jokes) were acquired for the American people by the Library of Congress a couple of weeks ago. Collection contains correspondence, films, tapes, vinyl, and business records. I heard that he kept everything.
In other news the Hedgehog has recovered from his heart attack and is back on the job.
Howard Stern could not carry his sandles
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