# Who speaks for Ray-Ray Johnson?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 30, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-speaks-for-ray-ray-johnson/172205 "2003-04-30T18:55:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-speaks-for-ray-ray-johnson/172205/1 "2003-04-30T18:55:54Z")

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Over in a BBQ Pit thread about pizza delivery Eve says

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> Has Yakov Smirnof officially replaced “Ray-Jay” Johnson as “classic washed-up, unfunny comedian?”

Did Ray-Ray Johnson have a career and was that really his name? Is Ray-Ray the short, mustachioed man ("oh, ya doesn’t hafta call me Mr. Johnson, you can call me Ray Johnson, or Ray-Ray Johnson, or . . ) from the comedy troupe _The Ace Trucking Company_, or is/was there another Ray-Ray Johnson?

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**Author:** ![Darkrabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Darkrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkrabbit)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-speaks-for-ray-ray-johnson/172205/2 "2003-04-30T19:31:07Z")

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In Soviet Russia, the Pizza delivers you!

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-speaks-for-ray-ray-johnson/172205/3 "2003-04-30T20:02:11Z")

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Please tell me there aren’t _two_ Ray-Jay Johnsons! For some reason, _The Simpsons_ writers are obssessed with him. My favorite reference:

Lisa: Bart’s acting funny.  
Homer: O.J. funny or Ray-Jay funny?

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**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-speaks-for-ray-ray-johnson/172205/4 "2003-04-30T20:18:45Z")

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Jay Jay Johnson, trombone master:

[http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/3294/johnson.html](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/3294/johnson.html)

Ray Jay Johnson, comedy impaired comic:

[http://www.robisworried.com/leon\_redbone\_and\_ray\_jay\_johnson.htm](http://www.robisworried.com/leon_redbone_and_ray_jay_johnson.htm)

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-speaks-for-ray-ray-johnson/172205/5 "2003-04-30T20:33:05Z")

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And [here](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Saluga,+Bill) is his IMDB listing. I could have sworn he went back farther—there’s just something so 1950s Borscht Belt about him . . .

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-speaks-for-ray-ray-johnson/172205/6 "2003-04-30T21:01:51Z")

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Ya doesn’t haveta call him Johnson…

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**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-speaks-for-ray-ray-johnson/172205/7 "2003-04-30T23:08:55Z")

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Are you telling me that his schtick went beyond “You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me RJ, or you can call me RJJ…”?