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Thread #53297   Message #4020775
Posted By: clueless don
22-Nov-19 - 06:56 AM
Thread Name: Burlesque/vaudeville joke routines
Subject: RE: Burlesque/vaudeville joke routines
Okay, someone mentioned Benny Hill. Here's a joke fabricated from a line in a song that Mr. Hill sang on one of his shows. I suspect that line, in turn, came from some venerable Burlesque/Music Hall joke:

A man is at a gathering, and he sees the most beautiful woman he has ever seen in his life. Thoroughly smitten, he walks up to her and says "Excuse me, miss - I would like to have you for my wife." To which the woman replies "What would your wife want with me?"

I suspect the original was better.

Don