It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

A Most Important Date In Comedy History ... August 1, 1966

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Merv Griffin introduces
Our Little Richie Pryor
who does a stunning
jazz mime
with an unseen orchestra
 

Richard sits at the desk
with Merv, alongside
the Everly Brothers


And then Richard gets to meet
the man he calls
The God of Comedy


Jerry Lewis proves
that title is,
at best,
a very slight exaggeration

Richard Pryor
tells a great story
about how his father
introduced him
to the wacky world
of Jerry Lewis

When a hot babe
named Dagmar
sits next to Richard,
he needs water
to cool himself off 


And becomes the focal point
of the Water Follies
  
Then the stage becomes
a geyser of gargantuan
slapstick

 Wet and wonderful
insanity ensues
but feel free
to disagree
after watching
at least
the first fifteen
and the last twelve
minutes
of this video

 
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Footnotes
You can go gaga with your google-search
as a result of this page but
there were statements made
challenging the deification
of Jerry Lewis

—Many years after  August 1, 1966—
Johnny Carson repeatedly said
Richard Pryor is the
funniest man
in America

Such statements were,
at best,
a very slight exaggeration 
 
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