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Man Alive: Did You Hear the One About...?

on BBC Two England

Reporters: Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Jack Pizzey, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: Did You Hear the One About...?
George Plimpton will try his hand at anything. First he played a bit part in a John Wayne western. Then he chanced his arm on the flying trapeze at the circus.
Now he tries the loneliest job in the world: stand-up comic. Alone on a stage in front of an audience, he has only his jokes between him and disaster. Bob Hope, Woody Allen and Buddy Hackett all have advice for Plimpton; Laugh-In's comedy writers provide the material. But on the big night at Caesar's Palace at Las Vegas he is out there alone in front of 1,200 people, an audience used to the best entertainment the world can provide.

Contributors

Subject:
George Plimpton
Expert:
Bob Hope
Expert:
Woody Allen
Expert:
Buddy Hackett
Producer:
William Kronick
Editor:
Adam Clapham

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