Take My Wife Please!: Henny Youngman?s Giant Book of Jokes

About this book

It was said of the late Henny Yougnman that he could make the Sphinx crack a smile. For seventy years he tossed out one-liners that sent waves of laughter through audiences all over the country; a Henny Youngman nightclub appearance guaranteed a sold-out engagement. A vaudeville headliner Youngman also went on to conquer radio and television. In Take My Wife Please! Youngmans enduring routines are collected in one volume. Arapid-fire comic he could tell six seven sometimes even eight jokes a minute like: Walked into a store and said This is my wifes birthday. Id like to buy her a beautiful fountain pen. The clerk winked at me and said A little surprise huh? I said Yes shes expecting a Cadillac. You meet the craziest people on the subway. One guy sitting next to me kept saying Call me a doctorcall me a doctor. I asked Whats the matter are you sick? He said No I just graduated from medical school. Youngman began his career with the intention of becoming a concert violinist. When he discovered that he had a talent for making people laugh the violin became a prop. He was called the King of the One-Liners for good reason and this collection shows why.