Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave) him a chance to show off in his most colorful schnook form. Seating himself next to Actor Joseph Kearns, a serious-minded businessman trying to do some paper work, Young quickly drove Kearns to the verge of insanity through a combination of nervousness and nosiness. Told by the stewardess to fasten his belt, Young first fastened his own trousers belt, then got tangled with Kearns's safety belt. A few moments later, eavesdropping as Kearns sweated over his expense account, Young asked indignantly: "How could you spend $100 in Buffalo...
...Time Entrance. The TV audience seemed most pleased when the stewardess served the two their lunch trays. Young, in his confusion, bit into a banana belonging to Kearns, then desperately tried to make amends by patching it messily with another banana. In the radio and TV gagwriters' vocabulary describing audience reactions to gags, a laugh is the lowest thing on the scale. Then comes the howl. After that they yell, and finally, on rare occasions, they scream. During Young's banana routine, there was no doubt that the studio audience screamed...