Henny Youngman on the Steve Allen Show -1960

[monateegs]

Shut up and eat the cranberries?

[huntr7777]

The king of the one-liners!

[robertmiller]

I was born in '89.

and no one gives a shit...

[slaveofdippy]

I steal his jokes all the time.

[LazlosPlane]

Funny but far from Youngman's best. He was great! thanks for posting.

[TheVirajster]

Classic! None of the new generation will get his humor but for most of us....hysterical!!

[defdeezy]

@TheVirajster fuck you.

[mikeygeneral]

Bycycles ! LMAO

[eshaw2115]

How 'bout that....LOL.

[therealjoebloggs]

"My wife and I have two wonderful kids--out of the five..."

[harrypmgs]

the bicycle one got me

[Gedarva]

or, you know, belladonna berries, which are similar to cranberries and are lethal

[hebneh]

I think the cranberry joke referred to sicknesses and/or deaths due to poisoning from badly-processed canned cranberries, probably at Thanksgiving in 1960 - a rather morbid subject to joke about, particularly when directed at "a little girl" (as Henny says). Certainly the audience got the joke, judging by their laughter.

[billt460]

How many got the cranberry joke?

[kevinherbert]

Absolute gold.....did you know he was a Pom

[maxwelld1961]

@kevinherbert Whats a Pom?

[kevinherbert]

@maxwelld1961 : a 'pom' is slang for an Englishman or woman, deriving from the word pomegranite, the fruit used by 18th & 19th century English ships to stave off scurvy among the sailors.