The Lost Generation
This is Woody Allen's comedy routine about Hemingway from his New York club act. It's available on "Woody Allen Standup Comic 1964-1968" from Casablanca Records, and you can see the transcript for it and much more on Ib Rasmussen's website.
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I mentioned before that I was in Europe. It's not the first time that I was in Europe, I was in Europe many years ago with Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway had just written his first novel, and Gertrude Stein and I read it, and we said that is was a good novel, but not a great one, and that it needed some work, but it could be a fine book. And we laughed over it. Hemingway punched me in the mouth.
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That winter Picasso lived on the Rue d'Barque, and he had just painted a picture of a naked dental hygenist in the middle of the Gobi Desert. Gertrude Stein said it was a good picture, but not a great one, and I said it could be a fine picture. We laughed over it and Hemingway punched me in the mouth. |
 | Francis Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald came home from their wild new years eve party. It was April. Scott had just written Great Expectations, and Gertrude Stein and I read it, and we said it was a good book, but there was no need to have written it, 'cause Charles Dickens had already written it. We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth. |
That winter we went to Spain to see Manolete fight, and he was... looked to be 18, and Gertrude Stein said no, he was 19, but that he only looked 18, and I said sometimes a boy of 18 will look 19, whereas other times a 19-year-old can easily look 18. That's the way it is with a true Spaniard. We laughed over that and Gertrude Stein punched me in the mouth.
Bah-BISH! That's all, folks, have a safe trip home! |
