electrosonic.com PROJECT PROFILE MUSEUMS AND VISITOR CENTERS National Comedy Center Jamestown, New York OVERVIEW So, why did the chicken cross the road? Living in Jamestown, it was probably heading for the National Comedy Center to find out why chickens are the butt of so many jokes. Okay, maybe chickens weren’t the target when the founders envisioned a center to celebrate comedy, but the challenge was to engage visitors with laughter. It had to be the right kind of laughter because comedy is very personal. That’s not just an age or generation difference — we’re talking taste in comedy. Fortunately, Jamestown had a comedy heritage to build on. It’s the hometown of comedy legend Lucille Ball and naturally there’s a museum dedicated to her career. A new comedy museum had to go fur

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