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According to Jerry Lewis, who made this word-challenge popular: "I first heard it at NBC when I was substituting for Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon decided he was going to teach me the announcer's test. The announcer's test is given to anyone in radio or television who wants to be specifically announcer. And it involves retention, memory, repetition, enunciation. It involves diction. And it involves 10 factors that use every alphabet letter in the alphabet a variety of times." This is also known as the Tibetan Memory Trick, traced to the Boy Scouts' Song Book and Flo & Eddy of The Turtles. One hen Two ducks Three squawking geese Four limerick oysters Five corpulent porpoises Six pair of Don Alverzo's tweezers Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic, old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who haul stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time. This is the so-called the "Announcer's Test." It originated at Radio Central New York in the early 1940s as a cold reading test given to prospective radio talent to demonstrate their speaking ability. Del Moore, a long time friend of Jerry Lewis's, took this test at Radio Central New York in 1941, and passed it on to him. (Del Moore is best remembered as Dr. Warfield in "The Nutty Professor," 1963)
Jerry has performed this test on radio, television and stage for many years, and it has become a favourite tongue-twister (and memory challenge) for his fans around the world.
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