The Hundred Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy | Jesse David Fox | Vulture | 31st January 2016

Jack Benny reputedly earned the longest laugh in radio history for a joke broadcast in 1948: “Criminal: ‘Your money or your life’. Benny: [Pause.] Criminal: ‘Look, bud. I said your money or your life’. Benny: ‘I’m thinking it over’.” But Jean Carroll surely deserved to win with this line two years later: “I’ll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze — and he too proud to run and get it”