11 Stand-Up Comics Who Served in the Military

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Every military unit has at least one person who can crack a joke about anything at any time. Most of those people learn discipline, grow up and become productive members of society.

Don Rickles with his father before shipping out for service in WWII. March 1943. You can see the bubbly personality even at that young age.

A surprising number of them never really get over that hump, so they go on the road and try to tell jokes for a living. Any look into the history of comedy reveals dozens of World War II veterans who made a career out of being funny in the 1950s and ’60s…

Benny Hill
Mel Brooks

More about the article in the link below…

https://www.military.com/off-duty/television/2021/05/18/11-stand-comics-who-served-military.html/amp

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