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...YORK: There are no official records, but it's a good bet that before his death from flu complications in Manhattan Tuesday, Henny Youngman told more jokes than anyone, ever. Famous for his rat-a-tat-tat strings of one-liners, immortalized of course by "Take my wife, please," Youngman did comedy at six jokes a minute, 200 dates a year, for the better part of a half century...
Perhaps it was Youngman's first break, back in the Borscht Belt Catskills of the 1920s, that taught him the virtue of volume. The professed "Milton Berle groupie" was fronting Henny Youngman and the Swanee Syncopaters at the Swan Lake Inn when the club owner, hearing Youngman tell his jokes between songs, decided to save money by firing the band and telling the funnyman to stay...
...never stopped. From the Catskills to the Palladium in London, from Atlantic City to Las Vegas, Youngman's modus operandi didn't change: barrage audiences with one-liner after one-liner, barb upon barb; saw out a few notes on his violin, then more jokes, always more jokes. He continued to use his trademark line long after his wife was taken in 1987 -- comedy is comedy, after...
...cadets, academy instructors argued that Blanchard needed to be punished if their lessons about gender equality were to take root in a service not always welcoming to women. "All the sexual jokes he told were typical 'male power' jokes and involved males doing it to females," said Judith Youngman, a political-science teacher at the academy...
True, it was only one game. What kind of achievement is that? Well--as Henny Youngman used to say when asked, "How's your wife?"--compared to what? Compared to human challengers for the world championship? Just five months ago, the same Kasparov played a championship match against the next best player of the human species. The No. 2 human played Kasparov 18 games, and won one. Deep Blue played Kasparov and won its very first game. And it was no fluke. Over the first four games, the machine played Kasparov dead even--one win, one loss, two draws--before...