I was listening to an old Rodney Dangerfield routine where he mentioned his doctor: Dr. Vinny Boombatz(sp?).
This brought peals of laughter from the audience.
To me, Boombatz sounds like the vaguely Italian/vaguely Polish name of a generic New Jersey street thug. For that I wouldn’t have expected the audience to laugh so hard.
Am I missing something here? Is Boombatz some kind of dirty word?
Boombat is a joke word among Navy folks; it’s something you send a rookie out to get. I’ve also heard the Magliozzi brothers use the name Vinnie Goombatz for a tough-guy character on their show, Car Talk.
It’s also a running joke for Dangerfield, so the audience was anticipating the punch line.
He has dozens of punch lines for this setup.
Only dozens? Thats it. They are reacting like a Skynyrd audience would to the opening bars of Freebird. I believe the name was choosen just for its sound, not do to any meaning.
Skynard fans react to the opening of Freebird with rollicking laughter? 