For 40 years my act consisted of one joke. And then she died.
\nGracie was my partner in our act, my best friend, my wife and my lover, and the mother of our two children. We were a team, both on and off the stage. Our relationship was simple: I fed her the straight lines and she fed me. She made me famous as the only man in America who could get a laugh by complaining, \u201cMy wife understands me.\u201d
\nWe had a good marriage. We knew it was a good marriage because we never read anything bad about it in the papers. They only wrote about us once in the big gossip magazine, \u201cConfidential.\u201d They wrote a story that said we\u2019d had a big fight and I\u2019d moved into the west wing of our house. I knew that couldn\u2019t be true\u2014our house didn\u2019t have a west wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For 40 years my act consisted of one joke. And then she died. Gracie was my partner in our act, my best friend, my wife and my lover, and the mother of our two children. We were a team, both on and off the stage. Our relationship was simple: I fed her the straight lines…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"yoast_head":"\n