I hadn't heard that joke before with the Lawyer delivering the punch line. The Hollywood version is that an actor and an agent (not together) take the Catalina ferry. A wave sweeps the agent overboard, and there's a shark heading for him that turns away at the last minutes. Everybody says "It's a miracle!" The actor says, "Nahhh, it was professional courtesy."
I hadn't heard that joke before with the Lawyer delivering the punch line. The Hollywood version is that an actor and an agent (not together) take the Catalina ferry. A wave sweeps the agent overboard, and there's a shark heading for him that turns away at the last minutes. Everybody says "It's a miracle!" The actor says, "Nahhh, it was professional courtesy."
I am reminded of Fred Allen's definition of Hollywood, "You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood and put it into a flea's navel, and still have room left for a Rolls-Royce and 10 percent of an agent's heart."
I hadn't heard that joke before with the Lawyer delivering the punch line. The Hollywood version is that an actor and an agent (not together) take the Catalina ferry. A wave sweeps the agent overboard, and there's a shark heading for him that turns away at the last minutes. Everybody says "It's a miracle!" The actor says, "Nahhh, it was professional courtesy."
I am reminded of Fred Allen's definition of Hollywood, "You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood and put it into a flea's navel, and still have room left for a Rolls-Royce and 10 percent of an agent's heart."
Allen was one of the great wits often seen at the Algonquin Roundtable, a workout gym for critical thinkers.
I heard this Fred Allen bon mot on the old Tonight Show with Jack Paar.....thoroughly dating myself in the process.....:-)
you and me both....