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Buddy Hacket was the first comedian who was really out there doing off the wall stuff. He could be "clean" on TV, but at a club he was as filthy as they got. On Johnny Carson, he once talked about Jewish cooking and how unhealthy some of the food was. He mentioned a Kreplach, which is a greasy kind of wonton. Only Jews could eat it, because Jews were all born with a KDM in their bodies. "What's a KDM?" says Johnny. Buddy answers "Kreplach Destructo Mechanism." Definitely not as funny as watching him do it live with his mannerisms.
Alan King was from my neck of the woods, Long Island, and was very popular in his time, but was never a favorite of mine.
I saw Henny Youngman perform at a company party. Even though this was 30 years ago, he was old at the time and I thought that I had heard all his lame one liners already and that this was going to be boring. 10 minutes into his routine, he told one I hadn't heard before and I laughed. And then another and another. At the end of his hour, he had the entire place rolling on the floor. "Take my wife, please." The joke that started me laughing ... "My wife is such a bad cook, all the flies in the neighborhood chipped in to repair the holes in screen door." And ... I said to my wife, "Why don't you talk to me during sex?" She said, "Because you're never around." And .. "My wife wanted to have sex in the back seat of the car ... and she wanted me to drive."
There will never be comedians like this again.
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