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WePurrsevere

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8. It's an old vaudeville skit...
Fri Jun 9, 2017, 10:34 AM
Jun 2017

Here's what Wikipedia says about it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_I_Turned

Here's the Stooges, Abbott and Costello (I think that might be the one you're thinking off) and a different Lucy version (Bug Bunny had one too).
Apparently Al Roker did a bit of it a while ago...
http://www.today.com/allday/slowly-i-turned-funny-story-behind-als-niagara-falls-reference-2D79321826

If you go to Niagara Falls they used to have one of the versions showing, I think it was at the museum but it's bedn years since I was last there.

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