Vernon Classics #16

Nick was one of the funniest guys I ever worked with but we had two diametrically opposed approaches to humor.

I liked to do quick bits; 60 seconds was a long routine for me - I tried to keep my stuff to 40 seconds or less. Not everyone was going to think every one of my bits is funny but they were likely to stick it out if they knew it would be over in a few seconds.

Nick liked to do long-form humor. I thought some of the long-form things we did were great but others, I thought, fell flat. My concern was always - if the listener didn't like a particular routine, would they be willing to stick around for 3 or 4 minutes hoping they would enjoy what came up next.

With that introduction, here on Vernon Classics #16 is one of the long-form routines we did at WCAR, in Detoit, that I thought worked. This came on a morning when we had just read a newspaper story about people making extra money raising worms for Michigan fishermen.