Show MILLENNIUM l V Very ery Unfunny When a radio comedian backs o of from laughs the event rates In news item Hem value with the man dog But theres there's method method about about worth weekly weekly weekly-In in Arthur Godfrey's Godfreys madness Godfrey is the guy who has ordered his musicians not to laugh at any of his bis Jokes THE RED radio comic comici explains wistfully that his musicians must musi clans used to laugh at bis his Jokes sing with him and have all aU kinds i of fun tun But that's all over now Godfrey says He adds that union rules provide that If it his musicians laugh at his his' Jokes or Join him In songs will wm come under an additional union i 1 ithe the American Federation of Radio Artists And that says Godfrey I would mean an extra cost of to toj tOI a week for each musician His men would sing choruses and they'd kid each other the comedian says lays but now if U they open their mouths to sing they come under I AFRA's jurisdiction That adds the extra salary |