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Now back to the Mark Simone show on WOR.

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800, 321, 0710. Let's's go to mike and florida mike how you doing

good morning mark and happy birthday to the chairman of the board price and not for two

110 today 110 110 110 10 years young um you know you mentioned jackie vernon Vernon recently and it rang a bell because I remember

he used to do this bit, you know, you'd have the clicker.

Here I am on my summer vacation.

Yeah, for those who know, Jackie Vernon was a comedian back in the 60s, very popular, and he was

a very boring guy.

That was his act, that he was the most boring, quiet, and he'd say, hello, friends, and he was a very boring guy. That was his act. He was the most boring, quiet.

And he'd say, Hello, Hello, friends. And he would do a, like, a slideshow with a clicker. And he goes, Right. This is me, but it was a very boring guy. Now this thing came out the other day that he had like 12 families, 9,000 women. Right. He was a carouser. But I saw, you know, he was on Sullivan.

And Sullivan, people may forget. he's 9,000 women. Right. He was a carouser. But I saw, you know, he was on Sullivan.

And Sullivan, people may forget, he had the greatest comedians week after week on from, you know, the ordinary Jackie Varnins.

But, you know, Myron Cohen and Alan King and Joan Rivers and John Biner and Sandy Barron and two guys like London Lee and Stanley Myron Handelman.

There you go.

The name's in the past.

But also, like he did with rock and roll, he was quite cutting edge.

He would have a young Richard Pryor on and all those guys were on Sullivan.

Exactly.

Before Carson became the place for comedians to make their name, Sullivan, was light years ahead.

Yeah, no, it was quite a show.

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