The Moose

Cidu Bill on Oct 19th 2009

No special reason…

Filed in Bill Bickel, Woody Allen, YouTube, humor | 15 responses so far

15 Responses to “The Moose”

  1. Frank the curmudgeon Oct 19th 2009 at 10:56 pm 1

    Where’s Mrs. Berkowitz ?

  2. padraig Oct 19th 2009 at 11:09 pm 2

    The Woodman was a pretty good standup comic, but I think you had to be a liberal arts college student to get most of his jokes.

    Example: “I got an F for cheating on a Metaphysics exam. I looked into the soul of the student next to me.”

    If you know what metaphysics are that’s friggin’ hilarious, but even then it takes a beat or two to get it.

  3. Kamino Neko Oct 19th 2009 at 11:25 pm 3

    The punch line comes right out of left field, which manages to raise it from ‘mildly amusing’ to ‘laugh out loud funny’.

  4. mkilby Oct 20th 2009 at 04:42 am 4

    I heard an audio version of this routine (via e-mail link) not so long ago, which must have been a different performance, because (as I recall it), the line about the moose scoring got a much bigger reaction.

  5. Lola Oct 20th 2009 at 07:07 am 5

    That’s got to be the youngest clip of Woody Allen I’ve ever seen.

  6. Fried Oct 20th 2009 at 11:48 am 6

    WHen do the jokes about step daughters start?

  7. Morris Keesan Oct 20th 2009 at 01:16 pm 7

    This may be my all-time favorite Woody Allen bit. I did a loose translation of it for my 10th grade Spanish class, many years ago. It’s still funny.

    (padraig: there’s a house on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge, Mass., with “Harvard Center for High-Energy Metaphysics” painted over the porch.)

  8. Mark in Boston Oct 20th 2009 at 01:56 pm 8

    “I was kidnapped once. I was hanging around the schoolyard, and this big car drove up, and the men in it told me they would take me to a magical land where everyone was elves and fairies and I could have all the Hershey bars and wax lips I wanted, and I was home from college that week so I figured what the hell….” — Woody Allen

  9. Pirk Oct 20th 2009 at 03:00 pm 9

    he moves like a muppet

  10. Sili Oct 20th 2009 at 05:22 pm 10

    I’ve heard that joke before, but I’m almost sure it was stolen and translated into Danish.

    The punchline was new, though. To me at least. I’m glad it’s an old punchline.

  11. June Oct 20th 2009 at 10:48 pm 11

    This is a wonderful joke - like a symphony.
    I heard a story that Jackie Gleason heard Woody Allen doing this. He was sitting with someone else and predicting each turn of the routine, he predicted everything - until the final punch line. He didn’t see that coming!

  12. Catlover Oct 21st 2009 at 02:55 pm 12

    The first Woody Allen routine I ever heard (muffle, muffle) years ago . Brilliant delivery. The version I am familiar with is a bit different - the last line being “because it’s restricted”. I owe my love of Prokofiev to Woody.

  13. Cidu Bill Oct 21st 2009 at 03:08 pm 13

    I can understand the slight change: This version was apparently in front of a British audience, so they might not have made the same connection with the word “restricted.” And of course the revised version happens to work a lot better on this side of the pond as well, several decades later.

    Another difference I noticed was that he didn’t say “Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays” the second time, assuming the audience knew it was coming anyway. I’m not crazy about this change because in the original version, when he says that line the second time, he says (referring to driving with Jews strapped to his fender) “Tuesdays, Thursdays, and especially Saturdays,” and that’s funny.

    Yeah, I think about these things too much.

  14. Frank the curmudgeon Oct 21st 2009 at 08:32 pm 14

    Morris K. Does the Montrose Spa still pedal mugs bearing the 02138 zip code? The would be cen tre of the Universe.

  15. Sili Oct 22nd 2009 at 12:31 pm 15

    “Tuesdays, Thursdays, and especially Saturdays,” and that’s funny.

    Yup! Heard it in Danish. And now I’m sure who stole it.

    Disappointing. Once I learnt of The Two Ronnies I realised they’d been victims too. Very disappointing actually, since he was one of my favourite comedians.

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