# "Thank you. I'll be here all week." - catchphrase?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-ill-be-here-all-week-catchphrase/90024>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 27, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-ill-be-here-all-week-catchphrase/90024 "2001-10-27T23:22:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-ill-be-here-all-week-catchphrase/90024/1 "2001-10-27T23:22:28Z")

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Is this a well-known catchphrase? Who coined it?

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-ill-be-here-all-week-catchphrase/90024/2 "2001-10-27T23:53:06Z")

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I always thought it was from vaudeville, and was literally true. Don’t have a cite tho.

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**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-ill-be-here-all-week-catchphrase/90024/3 "2001-10-28T00:30:11Z")

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Actually, I associated it more with Las Vegas. Veal was not normally served in vaudeville, which tended more toward a light pasta dish and white wine.

If not Vegas, than maybe the Borsch Belt (Catskills) where you could get dinner and a comic.

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**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-ill-be-here-all-week-catchphrase/90024/4 "2001-10-28T01:29:48Z")

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I never considered it a catch phrase, more of a cliche. It’s something comics would say to encourage patrons to return on another night.

–Cliffy