YOU remember me. I’m Gracie Allen. I’m the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.
Furthermore, I’m the only candidate who got the idea of running myself. All the others had to have somebody else think it up for them, or anyway they say the only reason they’re running is because their many friends kept after them and after them until they finally gave in.
Personally, I think they just wanted to be coaxed.
Gracie: Frank, I just sent a telegram to my campaign chairman in the Middle West.
Frank: Oh, good.
Gracie: He told me he couldn’t get any support from the farm belt.
George: So what?
Gracie: So I told him to wear suspenders.
Gracie: Wait until you see the picture I had taken.
George: I’m not interested in any picture. We’re here to do a broadcast.
Gracie: You know, the Democrats have a donkey and the Republicans have an elephant.
George: What have you got: squirrel?
Gracie tosses her hat into the ring as she announces her candidacy for President of the United States in 1940.
[In 1940 Gracie actually became a candidate for President of the United States. During the year the Burns and Allen Show featured several comdey routines on their radio show. Below is a transcript of one of these segments:]
Reporter: Miss Allen, my readers want to know what your platform is.
Gracie: Well, it’s knotty pine trimmed with oak and inlaid with California redwood.
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