Humor
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Carl L. Tarnstrom Joke Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ACC-MSS 015
Scope and Contents
The Carl L. Tarnstrom Joke Collection is made up of a series of jokes, gags, and "odds and ends" collected and typed up by Tarnstrom himself for a period of over thirty years between the mid-1940s to the early-1980s. He gathered these jokes from television, radio, newspapers, professional comedians, and personal friends. The topics covered by his plethora of collected jokes include: politics, family, athletics, money and financing, sex, marriage, children, gambling, drinking, and many more....
Dates:
Mid-1940s to early-1980s
The Reverend Warren Debenham Comedy Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: ACC-MSS 013
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of comedian clippings, magazines, and movie ephemera, such as sheet music, posters, and lobby cards. The extensive collection of magazines includes Harpoon, Just for Laughs, and Rave. The broad arrangement of sheet music ranges from the early vaudeville years to the more recent 20th century movies.
Dates:
1937 - 2006
The Reverend Warren Debenham Comedy Novelty Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ACC-MSS 003
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of television, radio, film and stand-up comedy ephemera, such as t-shirts, video- and record-store displays, board games, toys, trading cards, novelties and posters, all relating to comedy and comedians. Collection Highlights: - Steve Martin arrow-through-the-head kit. - Don Adams-endorsed Skittle Poker and Skittle Pool games. - Happy Days lunch box. - Pee-wee Herman ventriloquist doll.
Dates:
1950 - 2006