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About 1987-88 I had a bootleg cassette recording of a comedian, but
didn't know his name.  Someone once told me it was Lewis Grizzard. 
Some of the material went like this:

"Never let your woman read Cosmopolitan.  It's 295 pages long and 294
of them are why she shouldn't f**k you."

"...bought her a vibrator.  Man, that thing was nice.  Hundred an'
ninety-five dollars was the first payment."

"Camaro is an Indian word for [it's a gas guzzler]"

"The first thing to go [bad] on a LeCar...LeBrakes"

These folks want to find the same guy:
  http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3814b198.20463772%40nntp.cntfl.com&output=gplain
  http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=XCPA8.33011%24gd5.12609354%40typhoon.southeast.rr.com&output=gplain

Can you tell me the comedian's name?

Thanks in advance,
-preferred customer

Hello.

I believe that you're thinking of Jay Hickman.

In one of the links that you provided, another person remembers this routine:
'... He bought a huge boat and convinced women to go out with him. 
Once out in the middle of the ocean, he would pull the key out and say
"put out or swim".'
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=XCPA8.33011%24gd5.12609354%40typhoon.southeast.rr.com&output=gplain

Listen to the audio sample for Jay Hickman's "Boat Ride." The link is
toward the bottom of this Yahoo shopping page:
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Boat%20Ride:1921218007

Also, Jay Hickman had a routine called "Don't Let Her Read
Cosmopolitan," which is obviously a title consistent with the joke on
your tape.
http://www.comedyhome.com/Shopping/index.cfm?fa=shoppingItem&category=JHickman&webItemID=1252

Hickman reportedly died of liver disease some years ago.  See this
message archived by Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&selm=6kt3ob%24ba5%241%40chile.it.earthlink.net

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search strategy:
"put * or swim"
"jay hickman" cosmopolitan

Thanks!

Great job and fast too! Thanks!