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Can You Top This
Description
Can You Top This? is a radio panel game where comedians traded jokes and tried to top one another before a studio audience.
Can You Top This? is a radio panel game in which comedians told jokes and tried to top one another. The unrehearsed program, sponsored at one point by a papaya-flavored soft drink called Par and later by Colgate-Palmolive, was created by veteran vaudevillian "Senator" Edward Hastings Ford, who claimed he was taking part in a joke session at a New York theatrical club when he conceived the idea. However, the format was quite similar to a prior joke-telling radio series, Stop Me If You've Heard This One (1939–40), which featured Ford and cartoonist Harry Hershfield as panelists. Many jokes involved ethnic humor told in dialect.
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Original schedule
- 19407:15 PM ETWOR New York · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19428:30 PM ETWOR New York · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1942–19479:30 PM ETNBC/WEAF-WNBC · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19457:30 PM ETWOR New York · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19458:00 PM ETWOR New York · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1947–19488:30 PM ETNBC/WNBC · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19489:30 PM ETNBC/WNBC · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1948–19508:00 PM ETMutual · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19509:30 PM ETABC/WJZ · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1953–195410:15 PM ETNBC/WNBC · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19549:35 PM ETNBC/WNBC · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
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