Another example from the 1979-1980 time frame: the Utopia album Adventures in Utopia has a song “Shot In The Dark” with the line
“Is that all there is to that? (That’s what she said.)”
There’s a line in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night that sounds like an “as the actress said to the bishop” joke whose meaning has been lost to time:
Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit of
Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily
said to a niece of King Gorboduc, “That that is is”…
“Why won’t you tell me what she said?”
- The Doors
Ha! Good one, and I’ve wondered the same thing for 54 years. If I ever meet Robby Kreiger I intend to ask him about it.
I used to hear it as far back as my fraternity house in 1976.