Thursday, August 07, 2014

Bennett Cerf-1945




Joined a nifty new Facebook group dedicated to the classic intelligent game show, WHAT'S MY LINE? This prompted me to look up stuff on the series and I found this fascinating 1945 LIFE article on panelist Bennett Cerf--publisher, author, collector and compiler of jokes and funny stories, the man sort of responsible for making both James Joyce and Dr. Seuss household words.






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  1. Here's the FB link by the way, in case you folks would like to join up!

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/728471287199862/

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  2. His son Christopher befriended Jim Henson and Michael K. Frith while at Harvard. (Frith illustrated some of the elder Cerf's later books, and worked on the Muppet Show.)

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