Tony, a barber, could easily have succeeded on the the Broadway stage because when he gave a shave or a haircut, he went into his act. In fact, he did everything but the good old soft shoe. He sang, ...

Many of the 300 people who attended Harold Bonner’s funeral May 2 knew him, not as the former Killeen city councilman, but as the talkative barber from old town Killeen. Bonner, who died April 29 in ...

“How would you like your hair cut?” a talkative barber asked a client. “In silence,” the man replied! This is one of the oldest recorded jokes, attributed to Roman times. Most people shy away from ...

Percy Ponsonby was a BBC television comedy series broadcast in 1939. It starred Charles Heslop as a "talkative barber", an actor who was poised to become "England's first television comedy star" until ...

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