You're Killing Me! The Playboy Compendium Of Outlaw Humor

September, 2004

After World War II, Americans felt entitled to some old-school funny to go with their peace and crabgrass. They'd just put an end to the worst stand-up act in the checkered history of German comedy, and it was time to whip up a few Boston cream pies and break out the exploding cigars. They wanted Bob Hope to be a fast-talking coward, Jack Benny to be an unyielding skinflint and Milton Berle to put on a dress. But things changed in the 1950s. History did not end. There was communism and McCarthyi...

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