Do you respect the comedy stylings which belong to the rhetorical prestidigitaor within the shell of the altecocker who is reductively promoted and disseminated as Professor Irwin Corey?

RIP

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/professor-irwin-corey-dead-comedian-928653

(Rickles' act) was exactly the same (then). Same thing with me. My act all started out as an ad-lib, but after doing it so many times it became a routine. A guy said to me, "If it's funny once, it's funny twice." If you go to see Rembrandt, you'll go to see it many times - and it's the same fucking picture. It doesn't change. If something is good at the beginning, it gets better at the end. If it's no good in the beginning, it'll be worse in the end.

Zero Mostel was a friend of mine. Zero met my wife in the street and he said, "I'm funnier than your husband!" My wife said, "No, you're not." He said, "Well, I'm taller." (laughs) We did an act together to raise money for the magazine New Masses.

Phil Silvers I worked with on the Bilko show. You ever see that one? You'll Never Get Rich. It was an episode written by Neil Simon. I think he got nominated for an Emmy. Phil Silvers was easy to work with. When we were reading the script he said to me, "You were in show business once, right?" I said, "Twice."

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2013/09/an-interview-with-professor-irwin-corey.html

heh

I told this joke. "A bum walks up to a very wealthy woman and says, 'Madam, I'm broke. Can I borrow a buck?' Madam looks at the bum and says, ' Neither a borrower nor a lender be! - Shakespere.' The bum replies, 'Fuck you!' - Tennesee Williams.'"

i was just gonna paste that

weird that the interviewer had never heard of Bobby Short wtf

well KN is myoungish (mid 30s?) and a west coaster, i can see Short falling thru the cracks for him

it just stuck out to me since he's obviously familiar with all these other old NY comedy culture guys he brings up in the interview (granted Bobby was not a comedian - but he was in a Woody Allen movie!)

Short's peak in pop culture awareness was probly mid-'70s to mid-'90s. then he mostly stayed at the Carlyle and played.

Nesteroff's recent comedians book is lotta fun, i reemphasize

"bringing America together"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsdRGbQPr0