The DU Lounge

If he had been born a century later--he was born in 1894--, he would have been writing for Colbert.

In 1965. when LBJ had announced the "War on Poverty," and one of the biggest international concerns was the Population Explosion, out of nowhere, he said he was going to start a War on Puberty to stop the Copulation Explosion. He was born into poverty in New York City, descended from unsuccessful Mississippi riverboat gamblers who had fled north to escape their debts. He survived on nothing but his wit, which at some point was noted by someone from a Madison Avenue advertising agency, and suddenly he had a "real" job that let him afford his own apartment.