"To impress a girl," Joey Adams once recalled, "Harry Richman would tip the waiter fifty dollars just to get a menu..."

On one such occasion, Richman asked the head waiter at the Stork Club, "What's the biggest tip you've ever received?" "A hundred dollars," the man replied.

Harry gave him two hundred dollars. "Now tell me -- who gave you the hundred?" The waiter's reply? "You did, Mr. Richman!"