I Love Lucy (TV Series)

The Benefit (1952)

Desi Arnaz: Ricky Ricardo

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Quotes 

• [Ricky and Lucy are doing a show together] 

  Ricky Ricardo : I've got a joke you never heard in your life. I know a girl who's so dumb she thinks a football coach has four wheels. Ha ha ha.

  [Audience is silent] 

  Lucy Ricardo : How many wheels does it have?

  [Audience laughs] 

• [Ricky and Lucy are doing a show together] 

  Ricky Ricardo : Hey, Lucy, did you hear about the fire at the shoe factory?

  Lucy Ricardo : I'll bet some heel started it.

  Ricky Ricardo : You're supposed to say, "What happened?"

  Lucy Ricardo : What's that?

  Ricky Ricardo : What happened?

  Lucy Ricardo : 200 soles were lost.

• [Ricky and Lucy are doing a show together] 

  Ricky Ricardo : Hey, Lucy, a funny thing happened to me on the way to the theater.

  Lucy Ricardo : What?

  Ricky Ricardo : Some tramp comes up to me on the street and says he hadn't had a bite in three days.

  Lucy Ricardo : What did you do, bite him?

  [Audience laughs]