Laugh and the World Laughs
STATION 1ZB’s "Can You Top This?" may have brought comfort to a number of hardened story-tellers. It is always exasperating that the audience for one’s best stories is rarely large enough to justify the expansiveness of the telling. It is mortifying to know that, before you have exhausted your own in-
terest in the story your friends will have repeated it so often as to have effectively killed it. "Can You Top This?" gives the story-teller the opportunity of getting his yarn off to the whole world in one fell swoop. And the amazing thing is that there are so many stories which one does not remember having heard before. It is extraordinary too, when one thinks about it in the dispassionate solitude of the sitting-room, the foolishness at which one laughs.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 14
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137Laugh and the World Laughs New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 14
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