The story goes that during a Tonight Show appearance, Arnold Palmer was asked by Johnny Carson if he had any good-luck rituals. The most pervasive form of this legend has either golfer Arnold Palmer or his wife innocently blurting out the punchline to Johnny Carson during a Tonight Show appearance in the mid-1960s, prompting a ribald response from the talk show host:
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The version of this gag with a punchline about "kissing balls for luck" has been associated with a number of professional golf and tennis stars (e.g., Jack Nicklaus, Rod Laver) and put in the mouths of the athletes themselves, their wives, or hapless sports announcers.
Myth has it that during a camera shot of lovers smooching in the bleachers, the late CBS baseball broadcaster Dizzy Dean remarked to partner Pee Wee Reese, "Look at that, Pee Wee, he kisses her on the strikes, and she kisses him on the balls." and then you can kiss me under the balls."Ī similar legend has been attributed to a variety of baseball play-by-play announcers, most notably former Cardinals pitcher Dizzy Dean: He wisely did nothing to discourage the stories, which turned up in all the columns, fueled by his secret womanizing and bad-boy penchant, as in this exchange (swiftly drowned out by organ music) with Dorothy Lamour when Lamour said, "I'll meet you in front of the pawnshop," and Hope, after replying, "Okay," added, ".
The next day, junior-high boys' rooms across the nation were thick with cigarette smoke and delicious tales of what lascivious lines Hope had allegedly gotten off the night before to "sweater girls" like Jane Russell, Terry Moore, Marie ("The Body") MacDonald, Anita Ekberg, or Jayne Mansfield. Like Howard Stern, Hope was much discussed and quoted morning after each Tuesday night's show, sandwiched between the Fibber McGee and Molly and Red Skelton shows. (A well-traveled joke-cum-urban legend involving a traffic cop keys on the dual meaning of "balls," for example.)īroadcast history includes a number of legends involving broadcasters who supposedly sneaked onto the air bawdy puns utilizing the duality of the phrase "kissing balls." One of the more well-known examples was commonly attributed to comic Bob Hope during his days as a radio personality: Because it is widely recognized as a slang term for a portion of the male genitalia (the testicles) but also has some very common and innocuous meanings (e.g., spherical objects used in sports and games formal social dance gatherings), risqué puns that play on the word can be slipped into contexts where jokes featuring more direct sexual references would be considered inappropriate and unacceptable.
The word "balls" has long been used as the basis for double entendre jokes.
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