136:
Miami’s Dial-a-Joke was started by nightclub owner Chuck Zissen. For the first week he not only financed the service but did the jokes live. People would call day and night for him to tell jokes, and his wife threatened to leave if things remained the same. So he changed his home telephone number,
58:
met his first wife by taking a live call on his Dial-A-Joke service. He started the service as a hobby in 1973, at which time it was the first Dial-A-Joke in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Wozniak's Dial-a-Joke line used an answering machine and received 2,000 calls a day during its three years of
112:
as their first joke teller. He told seven jokes for one message unit, and his jokes were up for the first month of New York City's Dial-a-joke service. There were 200,000 calls on the first day of the service, and 300,000 calls the second day.
96:
enjoyed a high level of popularity in its day. For several years, it was the busiest residential telephone number in the United States.
256:
47:
phones allow callers to select different joke types: knock-knock, joke of the day, professional humor, random, etc.
434:
358:
343:
328:
298:
201:
218:
429:
154:
374:
89:
379:
414:
145:
In
Austria in the early 1960s, a joke of the week phone service was available by dialing 1562.
252:
223:
36:
85:
180:
117:
439:
313:
109:
92:. Emerging from a wave of Dial-A-Joke numbers in Los Angeles in the turn of the 1970s,
50:
Dial-A-Joke operators will occasionally answer calls, which is called taking a “live”.
423:
415:
Alex Dong on how to build a VOIP dial-a-joke using
Asterisk and Text-to-Speech engine
248:
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the
Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
68:
55:
43:
and then played sequentially, each caller hearing the next joke on the tape. Modern
40:
175:
125:
273:
246:
392:
51:
44:
28:
121:
84:, was a Dial-A-Joke line active in the 1970s. Started by Bob Bilkiss of
105:
359:
Eddie Knight, Dial-a-Joke humor strikes phone-in public’s funny bone,
116:
Other famous comedians heard on New York City's Dial-a-joke were
88:
in 1970, the line was named so to appear last in the Los
Angeles
108:
in New York City began a one-minute Dial-a-Joke service and had
32:
219:"A UC Berkeley Degree Is Now the Apple of Steve Wozniak's Eye"
31:
service that users can call to listen to previously recorded
409:
410:
Ronald Gibson
Historical Telephone Entertainment Website
137:
and he put the Dial-a-Joke phone line on a recorder.
100:Dial-A-Joke developed in New York City by AT&T
314:Anthony Hiss, "Next!" (The Talk of the Town),
303:, page 120, Wayne State University Press, 1997
8:
206:, page 127, W.W. Norton & Company, 2007
39:. In the past, many jokes were recorded on
301:The Humor Prism in 20th-century America
166:
35:. Jokes are recorded on an automatic
7:
272:Townsend, Sylvia (April 22, 1979).
280:. E. W. Scripps Company. p. 4
14:
204:IWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon
202:Steve Wozniak & Gina Smith,
251:. Grove Atlantic. p. 181.
217:Stix, Harriet (May 14, 1986).
1:
131:
348:, September 26, 1982, page 7
176:"The World According to Woz"
288:– via Newspapers.com.
456:
383:. June 29, 1960. p. 1
66:
318:, page 33, April 14, 1974
261:– via Google Books.
363:, July 20, 1980, page 33
245:Lapsley, Phil (2013).
132:Miami's humor service
346:The Herald Statesman
278:The Pittsburgh Press
274:"The Joke's on Them"
333:, May 22, 1974, 117
90:telephone directory
435:Telephone numbers
375:"Dialing Service"
224:Los Angeles Times
37:answering machine
447:
397:
396:
390:
388:
371:
365:
361:The Miami Herald
356:
350:
341:
335:
329:Dial-a-Joke ad,
326:
320:
311:
305:
296:
290:
289:
287:
285:
269:
263:
262:
242:
236:
235:
233:
231:
214:
208:
199:
193:
192:
190:
188:
171:
86:West Los Angeles
455:
454:
450:
449:
448:
446:
445:
444:
420:
419:
406:
401:
400:
386:
384:
373:
372:
368:
357:
353:
342:
338:
327:
323:
312:
308:
299:Joseph Boskin,
297:
293:
283:
281:
271:
270:
266:
259:
244:
243:
239:
229:
227:
216:
215:
211:
200:
196:
186:
184:
173:
172:
168:
163:
151:
143:
134:
118:Morey Amsterdam
102:
71:
65:
17:
16:Telephone humor
12:
11:
5:
453:
451:
443:
442:
437:
432:
422:
421:
418:
417:
412:
405:
404:External links
402:
399:
398:
366:
351:
336:
321:
316:The New Yorker
306:
291:
264:
257:
237:
209:
194:
165:
164:
162:
159:
158:
157:
150:
147:
142:
139:
133:
130:
110:Henny Youngman
101:
98:
67:Main article:
64:
61:
15:
13:
10:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
452:
441:
438:
436:
433:
431:
428:
427:
425:
416:
413:
411:
408:
407:
403:
394:
382:
381:
376:
370:
367:
364:
362:
355:
352:
349:
347:
340:
337:
334:
332:
325:
322:
319:
317:
310:
307:
304:
302:
295:
292:
279:
275:
268:
265:
260:
258:9780802193759
254:
250:
249:
241:
238:
226:
225:
220:
213:
210:
207:
205:
198:
195:
183:
182:
177:
170:
167:
160:
156:
153:
152:
148:
146:
140:
138:
129:
127:
123:
119:
114:
111:
107:
99:
97:
95:
91:
87:
83:
82:
77:
76:
70:
69:Z (joke line)
62:
60:
57:
56:Steve Wozniak
53:
48:
46:
42:
41:cassette tape
38:
34:
30:
26:
22:
391:– via
387:February 13,
385:. Retrieved
378:
369:
360:
354:
345:
339:
330:
324:
315:
309:
300:
294:
284:November 16,
282:. Retrieved
277:
267:
247:
240:
228:. Retrieved
222:
212:
203:
197:
185:. Retrieved
179:
169:
144:
135:
126:Milton Berle
115:
103:
93:
80:
79:
78:, or simply
74:
73:
72:
54:co-founder
49:
24:
20:
18:
430:Humor media
393:Archive.org
174:Wolf, Gar.
155:Dial-A-Song
21:dial-a-joke
424:Categories
331:Daily News
230:January 5,
161:References
45:touch tone
59:service.
29:telephone
25:joke line
187:April 7,
149:See also
122:Bob Hope
106:AT&T
104:In 1974
380:Variety
141:Austria
27:) is a
344:Joke,
255:
94:Zzzzzz
75:Zzzzzz
63:Zzzzzz
23:(or a
440:Jokes
181:Wired
52:Apple
33:jokes
389:2021
286:2021
253:ISBN
232:2015
189:2010
124:and
426::
377:.
276:.
221:.
178:.
128:.
120:,
19:A
395:.
234:.
191:.
81:Z
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.