"Don't quit your day job" (1985)

[Tom Dalzell]

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Lexis-Nexis takes us one year earlier:

People, May 7, 1984

Copyright 1984 Time Inc. All Rights Reserved
People


May 7, 1984



HEADLINE: Getting Their Money's Mirth

BYLINE: BY MICHAEL SMALL

BODY:
You may not hear it elsewhere, but truth be told, they're laughing down
on Wall Street. The U.S. financial capital has produced at least 54
jokers, all of them bankers and brokers by day who took the plunge for
laughs at the first Wall Street comedy contest. Sponsored by a watering
hole called the Compass Lounge, the event drew entrants from bullish
Merrill Lynch, outspoken E. F. Hutton and old-fashioned Smith Barney.
Henny Youngman helped pick the winner: John Goodlow, 31, a Citibank real
estate man. Goodlow took home $500 cash, 10,000 shares of "penny stock,"
which is worth $100 at most, and a plaque that reads "Don't Quit Your
Day Job." Naturally, Goodlow scored most of the yuks with a joke about a
bank. The Israeli Bank Leumi, he said, has strained its tellers to sound
like Jewish mothers. When you try to make a withdrawal, they respond,
"You never write. You never phone. You only come when you want money."


Tom Dalzell



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