Editing Henny Youngman (section)

==Early life==
Henry Youngman was born to [[Russian Jew]]s Yonkel Yungman and Olga Chetkin in [[Whitechapel]], in the [[East End of London]], England.<ref name="jweekly">{{cite news |first=Leslie |last=Katz |title=Henny Youngman kept them laughing until the end |url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/7721/henny-youngman-kept-them-laughing-until-the-end/ |newspaper=[[J. The Jewish News of Northern California]] |date=February 27, 1998 |access-date=August 7, 2012}}</ref><ref name="nytimes">{{cite web |first=Mervyn |last=Rothstein |title=Henny Youngman, King of the One-Liners, Is Dead at 91 After 6 Decades of Laughter |url =https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/25/arts/henny-youngman-king-of-the-one-liners-is-dead-at-91-after-6-decades-of-laughter.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 25, 1998 |page=B9}}</ref> His family moved to [[Bay Ridge, Brooklyn]], New York, when he was a child.<ref name="AnthonyHiss">{{cite news |last1=Hiss |first1=Anthony |title=HURRY, HURRY! |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1977/09/12/hurry-hurry-2 |access-date=March 14, 2019 |issue=September 12, 1977 |magazine=[[New Yorker (magazine)|New Yorker]]}}</ref> He grew up in New York City, took violin lessons and began as a comedian after he had worked for years at a print shop, where he wrote "comedy cards" containing one-line gags. The comedy cards were discovered by up-and-coming comedian [[Milton Berle]], who encouraged Youngman and formed a close friendship with him.  Berle said about him, "The only thing funnier than Henny's jokes is his violin playing."