Joseph Stein

Emerging from a Bronx upbringing, he earned a B.S. at City College of New York in 1935 and a Master of Social Work from Columbia in 1937 before working as a psychiatric social worker while penning comedy sketches. A chance meeting with Zero Mostel shifted his focus to radio, where he wrote for personalities such as Henry Morgan and Jackie Gleason, and later he joined Sid Caesar’s television team o… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources