Comedians: His Own Boswell

Woody Allen is a new, 27-year-old comedian whose monologues tumble with wild improbabilities.

He talks about people who perspire audibly; and he knows others who make opium out of the poppies sold by veterans. He calls himself a "latent heterosexual" and says he has an intense desire to return to the womb—"anybody's." He owns an impatient tape recorder that constantly talks back at him, saying: "I know, I know, I know." His father, he remembers, once worked in a factory but was replaced by a small gadget. His mother, he says, bought one....

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