What's up friends?!
Today I strike back with some more trivial information, specifically with the story of Sober Sue also known as the girl that couldn't laugh.
Our story begins sometime in the summer of 1907 at Hammerstein's Roof Garden, above the Victoria Theater in New York City. One of the performers was Sober Sue aka the girl who never laughed.
Her routine? She pretty much just standed there doing nothing but there was a twist. Anyone who would make her laugh would earn a price of 100 USD which I guess was a really big sum of money for back then.
Apparently all kinds of popular comedians and other performers tried their best but with no luck. It was just impossible to get through her.
Some assumed she was deaf or dumb or whatever but eventually the truth came out when her run was finished.
In reality her facial muscles were paralyzed which infuriated some of the top-rank comedians who essentially gave a free performance in an effort to make the girl laugh...or at least smile :D
Today we don't know much about Sober Sue. Her real name was Susan Kelly and she got paid 20 $ per week. And that's pretty much it. No photo, no age, no nothing.
She might have suffered by Mobius Syndrome, a rare congenital neurological disorder which is characterized by facial paralysis and the inability to move the eyes from side to side. But that's just a theory.
And that's pretty much the story of the girl that couldn't laugh! Essentially a simple yet effective scum that attracted many big names of the time and convinced them to give a free performance for the attending audience!
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