Comedy is Hardest
"You can take it from me-comedy is the hardest thing in the world to do, most especially and particularly, comedy on the air," says Eddie Cantor, "I ought to know. I never wanted to be anything but a funny boy. From my first days in the Ghetto in New. York I wanted to make folks laugh. They gotta laugh. Laughter is medicine-it’s tonic-it’s food and drink- it’s sunshine-it’s health — it’s life." Eddie Cantor will be heard from 3YA on Wednesday, September 4, at 10.24 p.m. in the "Music, Mirth and Melody" session,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 62, 30 August 1940, Page 10
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95Comedy is Hardest New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 62, 30 August 1940, Page 10
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