Here Comes the Judge is a 1968 song by legendary comedian Pigmeat Markham. It become one of comedy’s first memes when Sammy David Jr. made it a catchphrase on the TV show: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In.

The song, and Laugh In comedy sketch, became so huge - that 4 other versions of Here Come the Judge were released in the same year - all them making the charts. (The most famous by Shorty Long.) 

Here Comes the Judge - also inspired the Baskin-Robbins flavor: Here Comes the Fudge. 

Find out more about one of comedy’s first memes - long before there was the Internet. 

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