A few years back, New Yorker writer Tony Hiss attended the ballet with Henny Youngman, a former profile subject turned friend. As the performance opened, a chorus line of women danced onto the stage, ...

A crowd of 300 people filled Irvine Auditorium Wednesday night to celebrate the Jewish holiday Purim and hear comedian Henny Youngman's 50 year-old line, "Take my wife . . . please!" The occasion was ...

NEW YORK -- If the table could talk ... well, that would be a great sight gag, and Henny Youngman would play it for big laughs. The cramped table -- a sharp right off the dining room entrance in the ...

HENNY YOUNGMAN, A one-time bandleader who has made generations howl as the King of the One-Liners, turns 90 on Saturday. Hey, he has jokes older than that. In fact, his Social Security is Roman ...

"Take your BART, please!" If memes existed in the late 1980s, comedian Henny Youngman would undoubtedly have become one with these four words–a take on his signature phrase, "Take my wife, please." ...

Henny Youngman celebrated his 91st birthday at his New York home Wednesday. His material's not getting any younger, either. The King of the One-Liners sat down with family, friends and a few reporters ...

“This is the first time I ever said, ‘Don’t take my wife,’ and they took her anyway,” a saddened comedian Henny Youngman said on Thursday. His wife of 58 years, Sadie, had died early in the morning at ...

Baby-Boomers will remember comedian Henny Youngman. Back in the 50’s and ‘60’s when humor was clean, this violin playing standup comedian made audiences laugh with one liners and his standard ...

Henny Youngman didn’t take his jokes with him. Good thing. They brought tears of laughter to the hundreds who packed Riverside Memorial Chapel on the Upper West Side for the comedian’s funeral ...

At 85, the King of the One-Liners has done it all: Vaudeville, speakeasies, the Borscht Belt, The Ed Sullivan Show, nightclubs, casinos, even the occasional bar mitzvah. He's never tried to keep up ...