Henny Youngman (1906–1998)
Author of Henny Youngman's 500: All-Time Greatest One Liners
About the Author
Works by Henny Youngman
Take my wife ... please!: The autobiography of Henny Youngman as told to Carroll Carroll (1973) 7 copies
Henny Youngman's Big Book of Insults: More Than 300 Slights, Snubs, and Offensive Remarks from the King of the One-Liners (1995) 3 copies, 1 review
Don't Put My Name on This Book — Author — 2 copies
Associated Works
The Wizard of Gore / The Gore Gore Girls (Blood-Drenched Double Feature) [Blu-ray] (2012) — Actor — 3 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1906-03-16
- Date of death
- 1998-02-24
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- comedian
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- London, England, UK
Members
Reviews
These jokes were old, possibly tired, when Youngman's book was published. As publisher and racounteur, Bennett Cerf wrote, "If Adam returned to earth now, the only thing he'd recogize would be the jokes." These jokes demand a special talent for delivery - a fast-paced, machine gun approach that makes up in quantity what the individual jokes lack in quality.
This represents a failed attempt on my part to find a collection of 'farmer's daughter' jokes, since her co-star is always a travelling salesman. There are exactly two such jokes in here, one of which I'd heard. The rest aren't even jokes about travelling salesman, they're jokes a travelling salesman might supposedly like to tell. And very few of them are really that funny.
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 23
- Also by
- 5
- Members
- 172
- Popularity
- #124,307
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 26