Electric Comedians

Deck: 

Garrison Keillor, Meat Loaf, Bob and Ray, Jiminy Cricket, etc.

Fortnightly Magazine - August 2016
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"I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison." -W.C. Fields

 

"We believe that electricity exists because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it. But we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires." -Dave Barry

 

"In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management. They just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on." -Meat Loaf, musician

"Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable. The other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it." -Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist

 

"Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity." -Rodney Dangerfield, in the movie Caddyshack

 

Ray: The paper you staple together makes a fine lamp shade for a naked bulb hanging down from the ceiling. But there aren't many fixtures like that anymore. What if you want a shade for a regular lamp?

Bob: Well, you can buy those in any lamp shade store, Ray. It's the ones with all those old-time ceiling fixtures that are hard to locate. I went to six or seven stores. I couldn't find one.

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