European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Youngman the showman take my jokes please the tall Skinny kid from Brooklyn stepped into the Kate Smith radio hour in the Early 1930s and made an instant hit. With his rapid delivery of unrelated on Linc gags a he once spewed 26 jokes in a six minute monologue a Henny Youngman introduced a new dimension in radio comedy. From there he went on to top clubs and television show s a and soon was tabbed a King of the  in a career that s almost As old As most of his jokes the legendary s6-year-ofd comic is still telling Mem in his machine gun Monotone a wife jokes Mother in Law jokes brother jokes grandson jokes doctor jokes lawyer jokes psychiatrist jokes mugger jokes and on anybody and anything that will keep pm laughing. Here Are some he tossed our Way during an interview plugging his new Book take my life please co authored with Neal Karlen a in Las vegas a Guy running up and Down putting Money in parking meters. He says i love this outdoor gambling Quot a doctor Calls. Mrs. Jones your Check came  a yes doctor so did my  a a my brother in Law joined the army. He was a karate expert. He saluted and killed Hin sell a a doctor gave a Man six months to live.  pay his Bill. So he gave him another six months a a it is belter to have loved and lost a provided you Don t have to pay  a i told my Mother in Law a my House is your  so she sold  a my son is at the awkward stage. He likes to Park but he does t know  a housewife to trucker a am i too late for the garbage a a no lady hop  a Youngman s lines May not go around the Block. He does t have time for All that. By the time you be either laughed or groaned at the quip he s already two jokes past that one maybe three. Corny you say. It s a living a and a darn Good one doing engagements in top nightclubs appearances on tvs network variety shows roasts and specials performances on cruise ships and scores of one fighters and one shotters a sales meetings Trade shows conventions breakfasts lunches banquets country clubs colleges hotels and concerts. The 6-foot-2, energetic Youngman enthused a live been playing the colleges and they love it. It s great. These kids never heard these jokes before. All they know Are the younger Guys w to get up on stage and talk dirty. His secret Lor comic longevity Quot i keep the jokes  Youngman reminisces about the catskills where it All started More than 60 years ago. Travellers flocked to the Sullivan county cats a for Sas Arthur Rovit Henny Youngman at his Home in 1977, has been performing six decades. Kills about 100 Miles North of new York City. Tourism became top Dollar business spawning such big luxury resorts As Grossinger a Kutsher s. Browns the Raleigh and the Concord hotel a each featuring a Cabal it style show in a glittering nightspot. Many of today s comedians got their Start working these hotels in what for a Lime was called the a borscht  red beet soup was a Staple on Many resort menus catering to a Large immigrant clientele. A to give you an idea of Bow things have changed a Youngman said Quot nowadays the hotels bring interesting people up to do seminars in the afternoon. They have health clubs. They have Golf courses. They have ice skating rinks. It Wasny to always this Way. A when i started out As a comedian Back in the 30s, every hotel in the catskills had a staff to entertain the people to keep them Busy. They had a social director an athletic director and a Singer on the staff. Quot my first Job was at the Swan Lake inn. 1 was a Clown All Day Long a and at night Loo. I was on All the time. Quot i used to Lake the guests away trom the hotel for a walk or a boat ride so they would t com Plain about the food. I d do anything for a laugh. Id even jump in the Lake with my clothes  in six decades. Youngman s image has remained remarkably constant the violin for prop use Only and on which he occasionally plays a few bars of smoke gets in Quot Laur Lyes and the Snappy jokes from an inexhaustible Reservoir of laugh producers. He has enjoyed an enormous surge of publicity with a month Long appearance on Telephone firing off six jokes a minute and popularizing the new York Telephone company s Quot dial a joke Quot Campaign. Pick a subject almost any subject and Henny Youngman will find the lighter Side of it usually in 25 words or less. Polities a personally i m against practical jokes. Too often they get  Money Quot Rich he lakes cabs to drive an  Here Are others from his stockpile a Guy says a doctor i have a ringing in my ears. What la i do a a done to answer Quot a a she a a Light eater. Soon As it s Light she starts to  Quot i just got Back from a pleasure trip l ook my Mother in Law to the  Quot a Holdup Man comes out of the theater Points a gun at the cashier and says. I did t like the picture a give me everybody s Money  Quot a hanker is swimming in the water. A shark comes toward him and veers away a professional Courtesy Quot a America is still the land of Opportunity. Where else could you earn enough to owe so much Quot a Man says to another Man a can you Tell me How to get to Central Park  All right. I la Mug you Here Quot Quot two Guys in a gym one putting on a Girdle. Since when have you been wearing a Girdle a since my wife found it in our ear s Glove compartment Quot a Youngman s career has spanned six decades and outlasted every trend in comedy. He has performed before everyone from gangster dutch Schultz to Queen Elizabeth. Schultz was actually shot at the end of one of Youngmann a performances Youngman was born in London but grew up in Brooklyn. His patents emigrated from Russia. Quot i be played the palladium six seven times Quot he said and was hailed by London critics As a a Stampede of  at his mothers insistence he studied the violin nine years. He eventually organized a Small band a playing for dances weddings social functions he said a i used to Clown and Mug a lot As the couples danced by me and cracked  one night with Youngman hooked into a new Jersey nightclub the master of ceremonies failed to show up. The Boss sent Youngman out to Tell jokes. Quot the audic Nee liked it i much that i was hired As a stand up comedian Quot he said a and i be been one Ever  sch Ripino a i  Igol sufi Patyi nil of or it a by Frau  10 1901 sunday