At 18, Hal Kanter first came to Hollywood to work as the ghost writer for a comic strip for the princely sum of $10 per week--before he was fired. It was then he heard an Eddie Cantor radio show and realized that he could write better jokes than the famed comedian's writers were providing him. Interestingly enough, Cantor's writers agreed with him, at least to some degree, and hired the brash young man to work with them on the Jack Oakie radio show. Thus was born one of the more interesting and varied careers in Hollywood.
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Preview
1. Hal Did a Lot for Our Family
2. The Advantage of Being on the Bottom
3. The Happy Hour of Eternity
4. Do Ducks Waddle?
5. I Do All of My Work Sitting Down
6. Romance Into Marriage
7. Spice to My Conversation
8. Whether It Happened or Not
9. Everybody Knows It's Raining
10. Why Aren't I Wet?
11. His Dentist Was a Proctologist
12. Only a Pig
13. An Honest Living
14. 'Til I Say It Is
15. A Virtue I Do Not Possess
16. An Apology
17. My One Goal
18. "Shit," He Said Brie? y
19. Even Inanimate Objects
20. Hollywood's Lesson
21. No Small Parts
22. Some People Are So Sensitive
23. I'm O. K.
24. No Good Can Come of It
25. What a Lamp Post Thinks of Dogs
26. By Words Alone
27. If Writers Were Good Businessmen
28. A Clean Sheet of Paper
29. If Lincoln Were Alive Today
30. But Why Should I Depress You?
31. Always a Beginner
32. Ten Percent of Everything
33. No Reason to Regret It
34. I'd Rather Have Cocoa
35. I Forgot to Write It Down
36. Three People Have a Baby
37. If You See My Producer
38. On Schedule
39. Without Music
40. The Show Goes On
41. Still Frisky
42. The Gift of Laughter
43. Expressing Ourselves
44. When My Comedy Succeeds
45. What Critics Say
46. Hamlet's Experiences
47. Feed Gravel to His Oxen
48. The Big Show
49. You're Going to Love Melbourne
50. If You Live Long Enough
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