I always felt it was a contest: Who can make me laugh harder, Buddy or Shecky Greene... and as good as they were on TV, they were devastating live, in Vegas!
I think I will be spending some time watching both of them on YouTube...
Reminds me of Bill Murray's joke about a woman who hires a someone to paint her porch. After completing the job he tells the woman "by the way, that's not a Porch, it's a BMW".