Burns and Allen doing stand-up. Clean, clean, clean, and sixty (seventy?) years later, so funny there's a risk of wetting myself. Ditto the Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, and lots of the comic geniuses our parents and grandparents laughed at.
I share this clean joke fairly often:
A frog goes into a bank and approaches the loan officer. He can see from her name plate that the officer's name is Patricia Whack. So he says, "Ms. Whack, I'd like to get a loan to buy a boat and go on a long vacation."
Patti looks at the frog in disbelief. “How much do you want to borrow?”
“Thirty thousands dollars should do it.”
Ms. Whack starts filling out the loan paperwork. “Name?”
“Kermit Jagger. My dad’s Mick Jagger. Listen, you don’t need all those papers. I know the bank manager. Just get me the loan, okay?”
“This is a substantial amount of money. The bank will need collateral against the loan, just in case you can’t repay it. Do you have anything he can use as collateral?”
The frog says, "Sure. I have this," and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about half an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed. Very confused, Patti explains that she'll have to consult with the manager and disappears into a back office.
She finds the manager and says, "There's a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow $30,000. He wants to use this as collateral." She holds up the tiny pink elephant. "I mean, what the heck is this?"
The bank manager looks back at her and says, "It's a knick-knack, Patti Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone".
Maryn, bada-bing, bada-boom
