Quoting from Robert Heinlein&#x27;s &quot;Friday&quot;:<p>&gt; At one time there really was a man known as &quot;the World&#x27;s Greatest Authority.&quot; I ran across him in trying to nail down one of the many silly questions that kept coming at me from odd sources. Like this: Set your terminal to &quot;research.&quot; Punch parameters in succession &quot;North American culture,&quot; &quot;English-speaking,&quot; &quot;mid-twentieth century,&quot; &quot;comedians,&quot;, &quot;the World&#x27;s Greatest Authority.&quot; The answer you can expect is &quot;Professor Irwin Corey.&quot; You&#x27;ll find his routines timeless humor.<p>I did not find this to be true. Then again, many at the time were also perplexed about his humor.