 The Eugene V. Debs Chorus Line on the David Letterman Show | Jan. 3rd, 2008 @ 11:03 am  |
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David Letterman. Behind Letterman is a chorus line of picketers with WGA strike posters. Letterman called the group the "Eugene V. Debs". The writers who wrote the joke may not know but this was once used as a vaudeville joke circa 1912. The joke went something like this. I hear the debutants are all suffragettes. Not only that they vote socialist. They call themselves the Eugene Debs".
Old jokes never die they just take on new meaning.
Number One on David Letterman's Top Ten list for 2 January 2008:
"Producers must immediately remove their heads from their asses."
Jerry Monaco
music: Help Save the Youth of America - Billy Bragg
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