Making punctuation audibleSourced
Borge read the marks as sound effects
Pianist and comedian Victor Borge’s Phonetic Punctuation routine added exaggerated sound effects for periods, commas and exclamation marks while he read a passage. Marks normally left unspoken became audible elements of the performance.
The symbols between the words joined the act.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-05