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From: neal@fear.UUCP (Neal Bedard)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Carson's Split Sense of Humor
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 23:06:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 21 23:06:23 1985
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In article <21900028@haddock.UUCP>, jimc@haddock.UUCP writes:
> 
> I've never seen this stunt before -- I thought it was pretty inventive.
> [Johnny Carson] On *The Tonight Show*:
> 
> 	    A man came to a woman's door and said to her,
> 	"I have some terrible news for you.  Your husband
> 	just drowned in a beer vat."
> 
> 	    The woman, stricken by grief, said, "Oh, the poor
> 	dear.  He didn't even have a chance."
> 
> [Johnny Carson, same evening] On *Late Night*:
> 
> 	    The man replied, "Well, I wouldn't be so sure, lady.
> 	He got out to go to the bathroom three times."
> 
	Actually, the joke is much funnier if the `man' and `woman'
	are Irish, and the joke is told with a brogue. I use
	`Father O'Halloran' and `Mrs. O'Flarhety'. Johnny wimped
	out on this one. (No racism flames, please. I never met 
	an Irishman that took offense to this joke, in fact I think
	one told it to me.) So much for Johnny being inventive.

-Neal B.