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The History of Stand-Up with Wayne Federman

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

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The History of Comedy

"This is a lifetime. This goes back to a decade called the 19 seventies, when i was still in high school," he says. "i had always been a funny kid and teacher started suggestiongs, like, would you ever think of going into comedy as well? That's interesting, because i would never get any of that from home." He also talks about ventriloquism: "I got a record that taught me how to do ventriloquist by a guy named edgar bergen".

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