Just for you: Five minutes of one of my favorite standup comedians…the late Jackie Vernon. This is a shortened version of a great routine he used to do showing "slides" from his vacation.
Not long before he passed away, which was in 1987, I saw him live for the first and only time. It was at the old Marina Hotel in Las Vegas — the one they tore down to build the current MGM Grand. Mr. Vernon was the lead comic in a burlesque revue called "Babes Ahoy!" because it had a bit of a navy theme, as did the hotel-casino. Mostly, he did old Minsky's-type routines with women whose shirts mysteriously disappeared…but at one point, he came out and did about fifteen minutes of pure standup with no topless ladies on the stage with him. It was his "vacation slides" routine with all new (to me) lines and I probably laughed as hard at that fifteen minutes as I ever have at anything in my life.
I wish I could show you more of Jackie Vernon but you'll have to settle for these five minutes…
