ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE

Who's Who in American Comedy

Henny Youngman

Stand up comic known as the king of the one­liners; his best known joke: "Take my wife...please." He always carried a violin, but never played it.


[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]