Senor Wences

[XNASA]

I can see right thought this arrangement.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. s'alright? S'alright..

:hi: Kick!

[MissMillie]

5. s'ok!

I used to get such a kick out of that guy.

[BikeWriter]

2. Wences: Is difficult

Besides the ’S Awright! Bit he contributed another now forgotten bit to the comic vocabulary of midcentury America. Arguing over some trivial matter with Johnny (Wences’ hand) the following nonhilarious dialog would ensue:


Wences: Is difficult
Johnny: Is easy
Wences: Difficult
Johnny: Easy
Wences: Dee-fee-cult
Johnny: Deefeecult for you. Easy for me!

Apparently this joke was very funny.
http://www.goodbyemag.com/mar99/wences.html

[Gormy Cuss]

3. The originator of "Talk to the hand?"

I loved watching Senor Wences.

[johnnie]

4. Damn!

You're old.

[Redstone]

6. Guess I'm old too. I loved the guy. I think he might actually

still be alive, but don't have time to check.

He is/was a great act.

Redstone

[BikeWriter]

7. He died a few years ago, in 1999. He was 103.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%B1or_Wences

[johnnie]

10. Actually I thought he was entertaining also

I just wanted to rag on XNASA is all.

I didn't know this thread was 6 years old either.

[XNASA]

12. So entertaining that you're doing nightly reenactments, no doubt.

:rofl:

[johnnie]

16. .

That's really mature :eyes:













:P

[XNASA]

17. Well I didn't start this thread because of my fondness for Sr. Wences.

:P

[XNASA]

8. Mrs. Grumpy.

You gave this a mercy kick after 4 days of no responses? I had given up completely.

I'm touched. :cry:

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. I loved Senor Wences..so much so that I drove my family nuts copying him

:) It deserved a mercy kick. I can't believe I missed it the first time! :hi: :hug:

[tigereye]

9. I tried to explain this gag to my kid

it was really difficult without the visuals. Kids today are so jaded!

[no name no slogan]

13. s'aright!

I loved him! He made an appearance on the Muppet Show back in the day. He was hilarious!

Besides the hand, he had another guy that lived in what looked like a cigar box. Does anybody remember him?

[XNASA]

14. Vaguely. But I do remember......

Topo Giggio.

[liberalpress]

18. Oh, Eddie.....

[Bridget Burke]

15. "Close the box!"

Was what the guy in the box always said. I liked Senor Wences, too. Of all the Ed Sullivan "regulars" you had to sit through, he was the best.

[WolverineDG]

19. google is my friend

on edit: the character in the box was pedro.

dg