Gagtime

February, 1976

GagtimeYou should never do a gag slow. You should do a gag quick. You know what I mean?--Henny YoungmanThere was a certain smell off the Eastern Seaboard. The artist Andy Warhol was popular then. He was shot by a lesbian and dined at Elaine's that evening. Afterward, the world was culturally wide open.Just as John Payne and William Lundigan had etched their immortal rungs on the stairway to stardom a few decades previously, so, too, Tony Orlando and William Shatner were etching theirs.America wa...