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The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for August 26, 2014
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Transcript:
Brutus: See how odd the bark looks? Does the tree have a disease? Man: No need to worry, she'll be fine. Its bark is worse than its blight! Brutus: I ask for a tree doctor and I get Henny Youngman!
From the Wikipedia entry on Henny Youngman: “Henny explained the origin of his classic line “Take my wife, please” as a misinterpretation: in the mid-1930s he took his wife to a show and asked the usher to escort his wife to a seat. But his request was taken as a joke, and Youngman used the line countless times ever after."