Joseph Cook or Joe Cook may refer to:
Joe Cook (1890 - May 15, 1959) rose to the highest echelon of vaudeville, headlining at New York's famed Palace Theatre. He triumphed on Broadway and then broke into radio. A household name in the 1920s and 1930s, Cook was one of America's most popular entertainers.
Born Joe Lopez in Evansville, Indiana in 1890, he was orphaned and adopted by relatives at the age of three. He lived in the back of the grocery store of his adoptive parents at the corner of Fourth and Oak in Evansville. Cook joined a circus in 1906 which propelled him to vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood.
Joe Cook's physical talents were remarkable. He was an incredible juggler, could walk a tightrope, ride a unicycle, mime, and perform many other circus skills with ease. With this he combined an uncanny ability to tell nonsensical stories that made audiences roar with laughter. Added to this was his penchant for creating ridiculously complex inventions to perform absurdly simple or totally useless tasks. Mix in a little piano, violin, and ukulele playing and you had quite a show. The broad variety of Cook's act lead to his nickname – "One Man Vaudeville." New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson once wrote, "Next to Leonardo da Vinci, Joe Cook is the most versatile man known to recorded times." In 1930, noted columnist Walter Winchell wrote that "Joe Cook is certainly one of the musical theatre's three geniuses. I can't at the moment think of the other two."
Actors: Al Christie (producer), Arthur L. Jarrett (writer), Marcy Klauber (writer), Al Christie (director), E.W. Hammons (miscellaneous crew), Joe Cook (actor),
Plot: Joe 'Joe Cook (I)' )qv))is an assistant in the sound-effects department of a radio station and is prone to producing the wrong effects. But he gets the chance to work as the announcer on a program when all the other station announcers are intimidated into quitting in a feud between the station-owner and the town's mayor. But he is threatened with death if he broadcasts a speech that accusing the mayor of corruption. He appears for the program wearing an armor suit, and holds off the mayor and his two henchmen. The tussle is interwoven with the audition-program for a whale-oil manufacturer as the sponsor.
Keywords: 1930s, accusation, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, archive-footage, audition, cigarette-smoking, cigarettes, corruptionYou hit the ground 3000 miles too fast and you break
You fall into rivers of tears and you ache
And you hold onto the brink and you fall, you sink, it laughs and you think
I’m ok!
Well if I’m ok
Why do I break?
And If I fall will I reform?
And If I fall will I reform?
So you pick yourself up and they laugh
And you dust yourself down to reveal scars
and you hold on to the hope that wings will come to fix you
But it’s too late
And If I’m Ok?
Why does she break?
If I fall will I reform?
If I fall will I reform?
3000 miles and no one saves you
Please don’t drown in your own tears
And I will try to save you
If you’d only try and save me
When you fall, you will reform
When you fall
Joseph Cook or Joe Cook may refer to: