I saw this show live once, when I was a kid. I had no idea he'd been doing the show that long -- According to Wikipedia, he's been doing it for FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS.

Are YOU doing anything you love so much you can see yourself doing it for fifty-seven years?

MonkeyAngst: I saw this show live once, when I was a kid. I had no idea he'd been doing the show that long -- According to Wikipedia, he's been doing it for FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS.

Are YOU doing anything you love so much you can see yourself doing it for fifty-seven years?

Your wife.

/I kid, I kid.
//It's your mom.

MonkeyAngst: I saw this show live once, when I was a kid. I had no idea he'd been doing the show that long -- According to Wikipedia, he's been doing it for FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS.

Are YOU doing anything you love so much you can see yourself doing it for fifty-seven years?

Great actor working with iconic material. Maybe. To your question - I haven't be able to do the same thing for 57 months.

Punch brother,punch with care

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."
~ Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

He used to get paid something like $25 a show when he started with nothing more than a jacket and a wig. He paid around $7 for the pair of items which he carried around in a paper bag.

Stick with what works.

He was the snarkiest of us all.

How solemn and beautiful is the thought that the earliest pioneer of civilization, the van-leader of civilization, is never the steamboat, never the railroad, never the newspaper, never the Sabbath-school, never the missionary -- but always whiskey! Such is the case.

Look history over; you will see. The missionary comes after the whiskey -- I mean he arrives after the whiskey has arrived; next comes the poor immigrant, with ax and hoe and rifle; next, the trader; next, the miscellaneous rush; next, the gambler, the desperado, the highwayman, and all their kindred in sin of both sexes; and next, the smart chap who has bought up an old grant that covers all the land; this brings the lawyer tribe; the vigilance committee brings the undertaker.

All these interests bring the newspaper; the newspaper starts up politics and a railroad; all hands turn to and build a church and a jail -- and behold! civilization is established forever in the land. But whiskey, you see, was the van-leader in this beneficent work. It always is. It was like a foreigner -- and excusable in a foreigner -- to be ignorant of this great truth, and wander off into astronomy to borrow a symbol. But if he had been conversant with the facts, he would have said: Westward the Jug of Empire takes its way.

And yet Adolph Hitler Tonight only ran in Germany from 1934 to 1945.