Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf
Bennett Alfred Cerfwas an American publisher, one of the founders of American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line?...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 May 1898
CountryUnited States of America
education teaching school
One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.
believe discovery soul
Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.
crazy writing poetry
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.
food cooking soup
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
speech green cold
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
football men years
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.
birthday age grey
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
self people noses
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
crazy fame
Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy
beautiful laughing world
For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
prayer home sunday
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."
independent tvs urges
TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
people would-be television
There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.