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Joan Rivers Needs a Librarian

Clip from Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

Joan needs a librarian. Obviously, she needed one decades ago.

I once heard Bob Hope say that all of his jokes were on computers and easily indexed but this might not be true. In June this year the library of Congress exhibited the complete Bob Hope Joke File — more than 85,000 pages — has been digitally scanned and indexed according to the categories used by Bob Hope for presentation in the Bob Hope Gallery of American Entertainment.

Bob Hope sitting in his joke file room (by Annie Leibovitz):

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Posted on: August 20, 2010, 8:20 am Category: Uncategorized

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