Which comedian was known for the phrase “Say Goodnight, Gracie”?
Don Rickles
Milton Berle
Redd Foxx
George Burns
George Burns was a comedian best known for his long-running radio and television show with his wife Gracie Allen. They worked together as a successful comedy team that entertained vaudeville, film, radio, and television audiences for over forty years. Their show boasted an audience of 40 million listeners by the late 1930s. At the end of the George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, George Burns would sign-off with the line “Say Goodnight, Gracie” to which Gracie Allen would follow with, “Goodnight”. The cigar-puffing comedian died at the age of 100 in 1996.
Correct Answer: George Burns