The joke is the comedy equivalent of jazz. It's raunchy, it's free of constraints, yet has a simple 'melody' to hold on to. It's about where you take it, not where it's going. If that is not a workable definition of art, I don't know what is.
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Johnny can't gain his composure, Ed McMahon is doing his characteristic bull moose guffaw, the band -- the instruments are banging into one another -- the audience is in tears, and every time Johnny would try to gain his composure, he would look at Buddy and it would start all over again.
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