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Nassau County alone has given the world Eddie Murphy, Howard Stern, Rosie O'Donnell, and Jerry Seinfeld--four comedians, who for better or worse, probably shape the cutting edge of our national culture more than Charlotte, N.C.; and Berkeley, Calif.; and Austin, Texas; and all the truly hip suburbs with "a patina of sophistication" combined.
Unlike earlier black comedians, Pryor never tried to ingratiate himself with white audiences or cloak his rage.
In the first, they were asked to assess how funny they found a series of jokes of markedly varied funniness (as graded by a team of eight professional comedians).
To me, the funniest comedians by far, chiefly because much of their humor is linguistic in nature, are the Two Ronnies (Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett), whose TV appearances came to an end early in 1988 with Barker's announced retirement to run a business in antiques, for which he doubtlessly acquired a taste from Benny Hill's jokes.
It is misleading to call this a book of quotations: most extracts are comedians' one-liners, and the better comedians--Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, Groucho Marx, and a few others--produce the better one-liners.