"Broadway" comic strips Ted Healy

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"Broadway" comic strips Ted Healy

Postby Ed Watz » Sat Mar 28, 2020 4:47 pm

These quips sound like things Ted Healy's character would actually say, and the first gag here ended up in the Stooges' joke collection. The more you see of Ted in action, the more you realize how much The Boys' were indebted to Healy, as far as verbal material was concerned.

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