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...That comic?"sneered the Yankee owners. "That funnyman? We wouldn't dare bring him to New York...
...draw a full house. After first firing Cox because his act, a medley of warmed-over Peeperisms, left the patrons cold, the Dunes Hotel rehired him three days later on his promise that he would whip up a scintillating potpourri of brand-new Peeperisms. But on his second chance, Funnyman Cox chiefly tried for laughs in a masochistic spectacle of eating crow and sadly cackling over the original egg he laid. Muttered a disconsolate Dunesman: "He laid another egg. There weren't enough clients to pay for the lights." Rejoined Cox: "Gosh!" He soon learned that even eggs...
...Rare (The Three Haircuts; Victor). Funnyman Sid Caesar's answer to the inanities of rock 'n' roll records, disk-jockey lingo, and the hyped-up state of pop music in general. With a screaming, honking, socking background, the Haircuts mimic the Crew-Cuts with their howl: "Yew are sooo rare to me! So very rare to me! So if I'm rare to yew, won't yew be rare...
After chief funnyman Peter H.C.J. Williams '56 found at the last minute he could not squeeze into a shell, the other seven humor men came in for a slight dunking. The Ibis shell sank after crashing into the center support on the Cottage Farm Bridge...
...funnymen should, even accidentally, correctly guess an answer, he would undoubtedly be fired. On What's My Line? Fred Allen listens alertly, not for clues, but for tags of phrases that can be turned into boffolas. Of his job on I've Got a Secret, Funnyman Henry Morgan says bluntly: "I'm just there to talk. I haven't asked a sensible question in two years...