I'd like to die in my sleep like my grandfather...

[SeniorBen]

I'd like to die in my sleep like my grandfather, unlike the people who died in sheer terror who were riding in the car my grandfather was driving.
- Tom Smothers of the Smothers Brothers

 

[hollydolly]

That was a Bob Monkhouse joke... it actually goes...

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did - in his sleep.

Not yelling and screaming like his passengers

 

[Nemo2]

That was a Bob Monkhouse joke... it actually goes...

Or Will Rogers, or, or......

 

[Pepper]

Comedians have been known to steal material. Ask Milton Berle!

 

[hollydolly]

Comedians have been known to steal material. Ask Milton Berle!

Bob Monkhouse as well as being a Comedian in his own right.. was a Hoke Writer for many very well known Comic in the USA as well as the UK... including Bob Hope..

 

[Nemo2]

Bob Monkhouse as well as being a Comedian in his own right.. was a Hoke Writer for many very well known Comic in the USA as well as the UK... including Bob Hope..

If Will Rogers, (who died in 1935) said it, he must have stolen it from Bob Monkhouse who was born in 1928.