Labels:text | screenshot | black and white | man | letter | monochrome photography OCR: He told me that the Professional Golfers Association had presented one to him and one to Bing Crosby that year. Seeing the clip triggered a ques- tion I was asking all the comedians: "Do you think comedians are the poor relations of the acting business?" "They're not the poor relations," he laughed. Most of the comedians I know are plenty loaded." "I'VE KNOWN ALL THE COMEDIANS right on down through the years from the time I started in the early twenties, and I'd watched them in vaudeville. Jack Benny was very popular, so I tried to sort of emulate him. Then I found a fast thing, like doing jokes like Walter Winchell talked. I talked very fast, and the audience had to catch up with me. It sort of flattered their intel- ligence. This speed style, it really worked. And they're doing it today quite a bit now, running away from the punch line." MENU
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