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Riddle Riding Bicycle First Comic - Bringing Up Father

Comic Weekly Man · August 23, 1953 · 28 min · 4,292 words

The transcript of “Riddle Riding Bicycle First Comic - Bringing Up Father”, an episode of Comic Weekly Man first broadcast August 23, 1953. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Comic Weekly Man plays Comic Weekly Man free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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I'm the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man, and I'm here to read the funnies to you happy boys and honeys. Yes boys and girls, it's comic weekly time, and here I come right into your house to bring a little fun and happiness.

Right out of the pages of Puck the comic weekly straight into your living room, your friend the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Well, little of his funny. How are you today?

I've got another riddle for you. Fine, thank you. So, would you like to hear? I'd love to hear it. Fine, thank you. Right away. Alright. What is the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle?

To balance yourself without falling off? No. To keep your feet from slipping off the pedal? No. To steer it straight instead of zigzagging. people won't think you're an egg eater? No. All right, I give up. What is the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle? The sidewalk. Oh, that's funny. If you fall off a bicycle,

you go bang on a hard sidewalk. And that's the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle. Did you like it? Oh yes, it was very, very good. How did you do? Now can we please read the funny?

But the comic weekly, very well, I'll read that in just a moment. But before I do, Let's listen to this nice man. Now here we go with Putt the Comic Weekly, and on the first page, bringing up Father.

Magic, what's for the music, please? Very well, my lady. Rhaegadoona-doona-rig, let's have a merry Irish jig. It's a rainy day, and there are leaks all over the roof of Jigs's apartment. As the water pours in through the holes in the ceiling, Jigs sets pales under the stream.

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