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How do you get to that Carnegie Hall joke?
It's one of the best known place jokes, along with that river in Egypt, "Denial".
Surprisingly, it seems of relatively late vintage: the first recorded instance was by Bennett Cerf in 1953. (Carnegie Hall itself dates from 1891.) Nevertheless, the joke has been attributed to Jack Benny, Borscht Belt comedians, and a slew of musicians-getting-out-of-a-taxi, including Jascha Heifetz, Arthur Rubinstein, and Mischa Elmann.
Carnegie Hall sells it on a refrigerator magnet. (I bought one, just in case I need a reminder.) But how do you get to the Carnegie Hall Gift Shop?
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