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1 Doubleday and Co., Inc., New York, 1944. Quoted from a condensed chapter, "What GI's Laugh At," in The Catholic Digest, June, 1945, p. 50. You could have heard a pin drop. The kids looked at me. I stood there a minute and then I just forgot I was a comedian and told them just what I'd have said to my own son: "Listen, you kids, I've been on the stage since I was 10. I've told all kinds of jokes to all kinds of people, but I'm proud that in all that time I've never had to stoop to a dirty story to get a laugh. I know some dirty stories, kids. I've heard plenty of 'em in my life, but I made a rule a long time ago that I'd never tell a story that I wouldn't want my mother to hear me telling." |
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