Born June 29, 1947· Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
† Died February 27, 2024
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Emerging from a Brooklyn childhood and a marketing degree earned at Ohio State University, he entered comedy after an open-mic debut in Greenwich Village in 1971 while still employed as an advertising copywriter. A chance encounter with David Brenner led to club bookings in Los Angeles and a first appearance on The Tonight Show, establishing him among the era’s “new breed” of comedians noted for d…
