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Who are Harry Lillis and Les Townes (from It Happened One Knife) based on? Were they a real comedy team?

April 26, 2017based Comedy happened Knife TEAM

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Who are Harry Lillis and Les Townes (from It Happened One Knife) based on? Were they a real comedy team?

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JC: No, they’re a product of my fevered imagination. I stole their names from a real-life comedy team, Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby and Leslie Townes “Bob” Hope. But their personalities are nothing like those two. I just liked the names. Harry and Les are sort of Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys,” only one of them kills the other.