I took my girl to dinner, and she laughed so hard at one of my jokes that she dropped her tray.
Jack BennyComedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.
Jack BennyI don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
Jack BennyWhen I give concerts, the tickets sell for five dollars to one hundred dollars, but for my concerts the five-dollar seats are down in front... the further back you go, the more you have to pay. The hundred dollar seats are the last two rows, and those tickets go like hotcakes! In fact, if you pay two hundred dollars you don't have to come at all.
Jack Benny