See you in the funny papers!

[James A. Landau]

In the musical "Annie" (specifically, in an amateur performance I saw four years ago; I never saw the script) there is a place where the director of the orphanage says something to the effect "[sarcastically] So Annie's on the radio?  Next we'll be seeing her in the funny papers."

I seriously doubt this is the original usage, since the line is a good deal funnier if "see you in the funny papers" already were a well-known catch-phrase.

(note: the actress threw in several ad-libs, and this could have been one of them)

    James A. Landau

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