Why Do Comedians Live So Long?

“I don’t feel old,” Bob Hope is reported to have said as he approached 100. “In fact, I don’t feel anything until noon.” It’s doubtful, to tell the truth, that Bob actually said it —the line was most likely concocted by one of his writers or publicists to mark the approaching centennial. But the fact that the great comedian was still around to have a joke attributed to him (he died in 2003, two months after his 100th birthday) is what’s so noteworthy. Sid Caesar’s death, at...

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