Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line [Feb. 8] about feeling as Edison would have if they had rejected the electric light was a joke,Son, and not a whimper. TIME also erred in stating that NBC felt I was not the proper moderator for "Meeting of Minds." NBC offered me 30 minutes elsewhere in the week to broadcast the segment. I rejected the offer...
Nobody will ever know who really started it. It may well have been an obscure vaudeville comedian, after Appomattox or after Yorktown, who first used the joke during a desperate split week in Manchester or Dublin. The joke involved someone's trying to rent a cottage with a W.C. (water closet) and being misunderstood by someone else who thought that by some tortured leap of the jokemaker's imagination the letters stood for Wayside Chapel. Thus, the W.C. was nine miles from the house, could be visited only twice a week, etc. - endless possibilities. Little could the unsung...
...Wednesday night show, Jack Paar considered using the venerable joke, debated with himself (as he later recalled) about whether it was fit for the air waves, won the debate, and proceeded to tell the story. At 10 p.m., the taping of his show completed, Paar went home to Bronxville. And that was the moment when history pointed a relentless finger at Ernest Lee Jahncke Jr., a broadcasting veteran (for 15 years vice president at ABC) who had been brought to NBC after the quiz scandals to serve as director of the network's Department of Standards and Practices...
...RENT GENUINE BEATNIKS," said the ad. "BADLY GROOMED BUT BRILLIANT (MALE AND FEMALE)." It appeared in the Village Voice, parochial journal of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, and it represented an occupational sideline of Voice Contributor Fred W. McDarrah. The U-rent-a-hipster bit began as a joke earlier this winter, but when the first ad drew more than ten replies, McDarrah began to operate for real...