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Henny Youngman (Henry Youngman, March 16, 1906 - February 24, 1998) was a comedian and violinist famous for "one-liners", short simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire. His best known one-liner is "Take my wife—please". Henny Youngman performing at the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ...
Henny Youngman performing at the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ...
This article is about the comedian and telethon host; Jerry Lewis is also the name of a U.S. politician. ...
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March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ...
1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
A comedian (also comedienne, female) is a person who attempts to make people laugh through a variety of methods, normally through joke telling, or a stream of funny banter. ...
Youngman’s entire comedy routine consisted of telling simple “one-liner” jokes, occasionally with interludes of violin playing. He was known as the “King of the One Liners,” a title bestowed upon him by columnist Walter Winchell . A typical stage performance by Youngman lasted only about fifteen to twenty minutes but contained literally dozens of jokes, spouted in rapid-fire fashion. The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ...
Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972), an American newspaper and radio commentator, invented the gossip column at the New York Evening Graphic. ...
Youngman was born in Liverpool, England in 1906, and his family moved to Brooklyn, New York when he was young. He grew up in New York, though his career as a comedian began after he had worked for a number of years at a print shop, where he penned and published a large number of “comedy cards” – cards containing one-line gags that were sold at the shop. The comedy cards were discovered by up-and-coming professional comedian Milton Berle, who discovered Youngman and formed a close working friendship with him. Berle quipped about his friend, "The only thing funnier than Henny's jokes is his violin playing." This article is about the city in England. ...
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Encouraged by his family to learn the violin, Youngman’s start in show business was as an orchestra musician. He led a small jazz band called the "Swanee Syncopaters," and during the band's performances, Youngman often told jokes to the audience. One night, the regular comedian didn't show for his performance, and the club owner asked Youngman to fill in. Youngman was a success, and he began a long career of stand-up, telling one-line jokes and polishing his act to razor sharpness. His generally inoffensive, friendly style of comedy kept his audiences in stitches for decades. He started his career playing in clubs and speakeasies, but his big break came on the Kate Smith radio show in 1937. His manager, Ted Collins, booked him on the popular show, where he was a great success; he made many return appearances to the radio. Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ...
A Speakeasy was an establishment that was used for selling and drinking alcoholic beverages during the period of U.S. history known as Prohibition, when selling or buying alcohol was illegal. ...
Kate Smith on the cover of a posthumous 1991 collection 16 Most Requested Songs Kate Smith (Kathryn Elizabeth Smith) (May 1, 1907–June 17, 1986) was an American singer best known for her rendition of Irving Berlins God Bless America. She greeted audiences with Hello, everybody! and signed off...
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During the 1940s Youngman tried to break into the movies and become an actor, but he was unsuccessful in Hollywood. He returned to the nightclub scene and worked steadily with his stand-up act, performing as many as 200 shows a year. // Events and trends The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. ...
A nightclub (often dance club or club, particularly in the UK) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ...
As with a number of other New York comedians of the mid-20th Century, Youngman’s Jewish heritage led him to fit the profile of many comedians who treat their profession as a working job, one where it is difficult to make a living and getting paid for their work was all-important. In numerous interviews, Youngman’s advice to other entertainers was to “get the money.” He was quoted in an interview with the Web-based magazine Eye: "I get on the plane. I go and do the job, grab the money and I come home and I keep it clean. Those are my rules. Sinatra does the same thing, only he has a helicopter waiting. That's the difference." (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...
The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...
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Old Blue Eyes belts one out Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer who is considered one of the finest vocalists of all time, renowned for his impeccable phrasing and timing. ...
When the New York Telephone Company started its Dial-a-Joke line in 1974, over three million people called in one month to hear 30 seconds of Youngman's material—the most ever for a comedian. Dial-a-Joke was an early automated telephone service developed by New York Bell in the 1970s. ...
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Youngman's wife, Sadie Cohen, was often the butt of his jokes ("My wife said to me, 'For our anniversary I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen!'"), but in reality the two were close, with Sadie often accompanying her husband on his tours. Youngman remained married to his wife for over sixty years until her passing in 1987. He explained the origin of his classic line "Take my wife, please" as a misinterpetation: in the mid-1930s he took his wife to a show and asked the usher to escort his wife to a seat. But his request was taken as a joke, and Youngman used the line countless times ever after. 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
// Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ...
Youngman never retired, and he performed his stage act in venues worldwide until his final days. As his fame passed into legendary status, he never considered himself aloof or above others, and he never refused to perform a show in a small venue or unknown club. In a tribute to Youngman, TV and animation producer Mark Evanier described Youngman in a way that emphasized both his money consciousness and his love of performing: Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a...
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- “He would take his fiddle and go to some hotel that had banquet rooms. He'd consult the daily directory in the lobby and find a party—usually a Bar Mitzvah reception—and he would go up to the room and ask to speak to whoever was paying for the affair. ‘I'm Henny Youngman,’ he would tell that person. ‘I was playing a date in another banquet room here and one of the waiters suggested you might want to have me do my act for your gathering here.’ He would negotiate whatever price he could get—$200, $500, preferably in cash—and he would do his act for them.” – published on Mark Evanier’s home page at http://povonline.com/cols/COL178.htm on April 3, 1998
Youngman made numerous appearances on television, including a long-running stint on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. In 1955 he was host of a TV series titled The Henny and Rocky Show, appearing with champion boxer Rocky Graziano. He had cameo appearances in several movies, including History of the World, Part I and Goodfellas. He had a larger role in Herschell Gordon Lewis's The Gore-Gore Girls, a fact he denied vehemently. He made a few recordings, most notably The Primitive Side of Henny Youngman, recorded in St. Louis and released in l959 on the NRC label. The CD of that album is still available from narecorp.com. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Rowan & Martins Laugh-In was a United States comedy television show broadcast from January 22, 1968 through 1973 over the NBC Network. ...
1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Rocky Graziano, born Thomas Rocco Barbella (January 1, 1922–May 22, 1990), was an American boxer. ...
The DVD cover artwork for the movie depicts many of the eras parodied in the film History of the World, Part I is a 1981 film directed by Mel Brooks. ...
Goodfellas is a 1990 film about the mafia directed by Martin Scorsese. ...
Herschell Gordon Lewis (born 15 June 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) is a film-maker best known for creating the splatter film subgenre of horror. ...
His published autobiography is entitled Take My Life, Please! Autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is biography, the writing of a life story, from the viewpoint of the subject. ...
Henny Youngman developed pneumonia and passed away at the age of 91. He is interred in the Mount Carmel Cemetery, Flushing, New York. Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lung. ...
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