I suppose this belongs in here - when Christmas shopping this year, I found an old VHS of a Victor Borge show, and slipped it into my 18 year old son's stocking. He loved it! I'm so happy to see that this type of comedy can still raise a smile in a young person. There really was no one like him.

I was lucky enough to see Borge at an outdoor concert at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. We sat in a light rain with plastic covers over us, and still he went ahead and performed. It was fantastic. He never failed to amuse me. Used to watch him on the Ed Sullivan show. I used to have a book he wrote called "My Favorite Intermissions." The footnotes he wrote were just as funny as his performances. Sadly, I loaned it out, never got it back, and then moved.

Also, I just looked at Amazon, Agony, and see they have quite a number of his performances available.

June

Victor Borge was certainly unique. I’ve got the book that Jar mentions, and after reading these posts I’ve just played my old vinyl LPs of Borge reading excerpts from it (the footnotes are worked in as a kind of echo).

Like Jar, I was also lucky enough to catch one performance by him – at the Festival Hall in London: it must have been in the early 1980s.

I’m glad to hear that his comedy is still enjoyed.

I'll never forget cleaning out the pockets of my late husband's favourite cordroy coat. [ spring, 1995] When I reached down into the lining, I found two ticket stubs for the Victor Borge show, at some club in NYC. The year printed on the tickets?
1963. I don't know which is more amazing; the fact that Bill kept on wearing that coat for the next 31 years or that obviously it had not ever darkened the door of a dry cleaner. The coat and it's contents were part of his life long before I was, so I can't be blamed for slovenly coat habits...still, it's amazing.