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For 40 years my act consisted of one joke. And then she died.
Gracie was my partner in our act, my best friend, my wife and my lover, and the mother of our two children. We were a team, both on and off the stage. Our relationship was simple: I fed her the straight lines and she fed me. She made me famous as the only man in America who could get a laugh by complaining, “My wife understands me.”
We had a good marriage. We knew it was a good marriage because we never read anything bad about it in the papers. They only wrote about us once in the big gossip magazine, “Confidential.” They wrote a story that said we’d had a big fight and I’d moved into the west wing of our house. I knew that couldn’t be true—our house didn’t have a west wing.
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posted February 14, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I’ve actually thought quite a bit about George and Gracie recently. I’m not sure why.
Jungian synchronicity or … Something Else? (Capital S, capital E.)
posted February 14, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Here’s one to George & Gracie………
A 50th Wedding Anniversary…
At Saint Mary’s Catholic Church they have a weekly husband’s marriage seminar. At a session, last week, the Priest asked Luigi, who was approaching his 50th wedding anniversary, to take a few, minutes and share some insight into how he had managed to stay married to the same woman all these years.
Luigi replied to the assembled husbands, “Well, I’ve a-tried to treat-a her nice, spend the money on her, but best is that I took-a her to Italy for the 20th anniversary!”
The Priest responded, “Luigi, you are an amazing inspiration to all the husbands here! Please tell us what you are planning for your wife for your 50th anniversary.”
Luigi proudly replied, “I’m a-gonna go to get her.”
posted February 17, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Nancy,
That was tooo funny!!!