# REJOYCE!  Anybodey here remember Brother Dave Gardner?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 2, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoyce-anybodey-here-remember-brother-dave-gardner/329116 "2005-11-02T18:17:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoyce-anybodey-here-remember-brother-dave-gardner/329116/1 "2005-11-02T18:17:10Z")

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I deliver his material all the time and to this day it still works. Why is that guy not better known? I mean, what he did with Shakespeare’s _Julius Caesar_? Legendary!

“Because it hurt him!”

Shuffles off singing, “does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?”

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**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoyce-anybodey-here-remember-brother-dave-gardner/329116/2 "2005-11-02T20:28:56Z")

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Why yes, I most certainly do, although I haven’t thought of him in years and years. I listened to several of his albums back in the mid-sixties.

He was sidesplittingly funny!

I think he got into drugs or alcohol and sorta derailed his career, or he’d have been at least as popular as Jerry Clower, IMHO.

Really loved that guy.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoyce-anybodey-here-remember-brother-dave-gardner/329116/3 "2005-11-03T19:21:59Z")

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Wow - haven’t heard him mentioned since, well - the late 60’s. My older brother had at least one album of his and would quote from it. I don’t remember any of it much other than my brother finding it side-splittingly funny.

This was back in the days my brother also bought Bob Newhart albums, Bill Cosby albums and a few others I have forgotten over the years. Comedy albums must have been quite popular back then. Anybody buy them today? Are they even on the market?