He's a dead, dead, dead, dead man

Veteran comedian Buddy Hackett has taken his last encore, passing away yesterday at the age of 79. Perhaps best known for such films as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Music Man and The Love Bug, the self-proclaimed "short, fat comic" performed his stand-up routine for more than 40 years after returning from service in WWII - going "blue" long before it was commonplace - and found new audiences with appearances on the Tonight Show and more recently The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. One of his last TV gigs was as a celebrity critic on Last Comic Standing, where he got to tell unfunny man Joe Rogan to shut the hell up. Vintage Hackett. A few of his favorite jokes are excerpted below.

During a visit to Jerusalem with Alan King, the city's mayor was leading a tour and exclaimed 'Isn’t it amazing what the Jews have built from nothing in the desert.’ Buddy responded, ‘You should see Las Vegas

There were two tailors, the Newman Brothers, Moe & Sam. Sam had perfect hearing, but he wore a hearing aid.
A woman would bring her son in & say"How much is that suit in the window?"
He'd say "I'll have to ask mine partner. MOE, HOW MUCH IS THE SUIT IN THE WINDOW?"
Moe would answer "Thirty-five dollars!"
Sam would say "It's 25 dollars!"
She'd say "We'll take it!"
They sold a lotta $15 suits that way.

Hackett was also apparently the source for a great urban legend about Neil Armstrong's comments on the moon. Armstrong himself said the first time he ever heard the joke was during a Hackett performance at a California night club.

Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky
When Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind" statement, but followed it by several remarks - usual COM traffic between him, the other astronauts and Mission Control. Before he re-entered the lander, he made the enigmatic remark "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky."
Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian nor American space programs.
Over the years, many people have questioned him as to what the "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky" statement meant. On July 5, in Tampa Bay, FL, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26 year old question to Armstrong. He finally responded. It seems that Mr. Gorsky had died and so Armstrong felt he could answer the question. When he was a kid, Neil was playing baseball with his brother in the backyard. His brother hit a fly ball which landed in front of his neighbors' bedroom window. The neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Gorksy. As he leaned down to pick up the ball, he heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, "Oral sex? Oral sex you want? You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"