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...Youngman's style is what grants his humor a lasting quality. It's a rapid-fire technique that hasn't changed since he mastered it in the Thirties. He'd been working as a night club comic, employing a cigar instead of a violin as his prop, when he signed (without an audition) to do a six-minute spot on the Kate Smith radio show. He was an instant hit and the producer extended his routine to 10 minutes. With a $250 check in his pocket for 10 minutes of work, Youngman realized he was a sudden success. Since...
...Kate Smith Show. About 15 minutes before it was supposed to go on my wife can up to me with several ladies. They had tickets but she didn't. So I asked them to take my wife--please. It stuck." The wife in all those jokes is Sadie Youngman, who sold sheet music at Kresge's when they first met. They've been married 52 years...
Wife jokes have become a Henny Youngman trademark and he relied on them heavily with his college audience...
...Youngman, though, is to incorporate those well-worn gags with some audience participation...
...talking. One says, 'I just lost my third wife.' 'What happened to the first?' 'She died from eating poisoned mushrooms.' 'And the second?' 'She died from eating poisoned mushrooms.' 'What happened to the third?' 'Cracked skull.' 'How?'" Youngman lifted his hands toward the audience. "'She-wouldn't-eat-the-poisoned-mushrooms,'" chorused 2000 people...