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Ed Wynn The Fire Chief - The Prince Goes To School
·28 min·2 clips
The prince claims President Hoover 'can only fascinate' nine buttons and that iron was discovered 'because somebody smelt it.'
As heard by us
A brisk old radio comic sprint where nonsense keeps outrunning common sense.
Ed Wynn's Fire Chief hour moves fast, and the joke machine rarely lets up. Lanterns, commandments, amendments, a prince sent to Moron College, and classroom answers that keep slipping out of reach all pile into a comic rhythm where ordinary speech keeps tipping into nonsense.
Why you'd press play
Press play if you want Ed Wynn and a sponsor-era radio comedy turning schoolroom nonsense into fast, polished chaos.
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