A caller with a 25-year-old parrot wonders: How much language do birds really understand? Plus, Knock-knock. Who’s there? Boo. Well… you can guess the rest. But there was a time when these goofy jokes were a brand-new craze sweeping the nation...
Before knock-knock jokes swept the country in 1936, another silly parlor game called handies was all the rage. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Handies” I was talking at the beginning about these newspaper articles that...