Senator Claghorn

Delmar as Claghorn in It's a Joke, Son!

Senator Beauregard Claghorn was a popular fictional radio character on the "Allen's Alley" segment of The Fred Allen Show, beginning in 1945. Succeeding the vaguely similar but much less popular Senator Bloat from the earliest "Allen's Alley" routines, Senator Claghorn, portrayed by Allen's announcer Kenny Delmar, was a blustery Southern politician whose home was usually the first at which Allen would knock.[1] Claghorn would typically answer the door with, "Somebody, ah say, somebody knocked! Claghorn's the name, Senator Claghorn, that is. I'm from the South. Suh."[2]

  1. ^ Berger, Joseph (1984-07-15). "Kenny Delmar, Radio's Senator Claghorn, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
  2. ^ "Happy Birthday, Kenny Delmar!". Radio Classics. Retrieved 2017-06-14.