Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak met his first wife by taking a live call on his Dial-A-Joke service.
Emerging from a wave of Dial-A-Joke numbers in Los Angeles in the turn of the 1970s,[4] Zzzzzz enjoyed a high level of popularity in its day.
[5] In 1974 AT&T in New York City began a one-minute Dial-a-Joke service and had Henny Youngman as their first joke teller.
[7] Other famous comedians heard on New York City's Dial-a-joke were Morey Amsterdam,[8] Bob Hope and Milton Berle.
People would call day and night for him to tell jokes, and his wife threatened to leave if things remained the same.