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Thread #167039 Message #4023887
Posted By: keberoxu
15-Dec-19 - 12:25 PM
Thread Name: song challenge: finish Bernadette parody
Subject: RE: song challenge: finish Bernadette parody
The comedy writer who improvised the above fragment, and left it incomplete, was the father of Jean Houston. "Jack Houston" is how his daughter identifies him, I have failed in my attempts to find out his formal name.
The unfinished parody is often quoted when Jean Houston reminisces about her upbringing, as she was a child when her father came up with the parody.
The earliest source I could find for the parody is Jean Houston's book, The Possible Human, on page 185, 1982, publisher J. P. Tarcher.