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August 3rd. Henny Youngman up there on teevee rat-tat-tatting the David Frost studio audiencd, with old stand-up comic Thompson�s Motif-Index of FolkLiterature re-hashes. Rat-tat-tat the robber who went into the Chinese restaurant and said �give me all your money� and the little Chinese fella behind the counter says �to take out?� rat-tat-tat. Then there were the six rough-trade hippys who motorcycledup to a diner and went inside and started taunting this truckdriver So the truckdriver gets up and leaves and one of the hippys says to the counterman �he isn�t much of a man, is he?� and the counterman says �he�s not much of a truckdriver either — he just backed up over six motorcycles.� And the ever-present violin, old slick-haired vaudeville Jew and that sere obsidian get-the-money string of one-liners and toppers 1902ff. Massachusetts, introduced by Frost in Copacabana voice of limousines and satin Times Square older than teevee.
Commercial. Piano player. Mike Metelica and Ronnie I forget his Jast name from the Brotherhood of the Spirit commune in Warwick, Massachusetts, introduced by Frost in some vague allusion to the pianist preceding them. Frost asks about the commune. Well,
