CHAPTER 34

Author: You just mentioned Henriette Mantel there as well. I was in touch with Henriette. She had this funny story which Bill told me originally, which is when they confronted Manny and said that he wasn’t giving them stage time because they were women. And Henriette had this good line which was … They had a big argument and Henriette said she wouldn’t speak to him again unless it was at Camp David. I wondered if you could remember that or anything like that?

Judy Gold: I don’t know if I blocked it out, but it was a bad time for women comics, because most clubs wouldn’t put two women on the same show. So, if there was one woman on the show, that was the quota.