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## Video: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

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_Published 2007-09-05. Burns and Allen's vaudeville-to-screen transition was one of the first comedies that could properly be called a sitcom, as opposed to a string of funny bits._


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## Transcript

>> Now, if we pay the salaries of the congressmen and the senators, we're supporting them monthly?

>> Well, yes.

>> Yes. Well then, why can't we list them as dependents and deduct some?

>> All of that have to.

>> No, no, no, no wait a minute. And now here's something else that I'd like to know. Do the Republicans have to pay part of Mr. Truman's salary?

>> Yes, of course.

>> It's certainly rubbing it in, isn't it?

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