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Born March 9, 1934· Manhattan, Kansas, USA

† Died March 4, 1999

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Running away at seventeen to join a traveling side show before returning to Kansas State University, he entered the Compass Players at twenty-three and followed the troupe to New York, where he honed a stand-up routine, appeared in the Broadway revue The Nervous Set, and recorded the Beatnik satire album How to Speak Hip. After a stint directing at Second City, he moved to Chicago in 1960, later d…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources