Word: funnyman
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Corrigan did not laugh at any of these. But I told him to picture funnyman Smith delivering these zingers, and Corrigan would be crying on his overstarched shirt. This he laughed...
DIED. BOB TROW, 72, Pittsburgh radio funnyman who went on to people Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for three decades as Robert Troll, Bob Dog and himself; of a heart attack; in New Alexandria...
...just hope JIM CARREY thinks that's Pamela Anderson cozying up to ED BURNS at the premiere of No Looking Back. The rubber-faced funnyman and LAUREN HOLLY, now as blond as the Baywatch icon, were thought to be off-again (at least that's what their divorce papers say), but the duo, photographed during happier times at right, were reportedly spotted together at a birthday bash in Beverly Hills on a recent Saturday. The next Wednesday, Holly was back in the arms of the Other Man--the writer-director whose charms are widely believed to have wooed her away...
...1920s, that taught him the virtue of volume. The professed "Milton Berle groupie" was fronting Henny Youngman and the Swanee Syncopaters at the Swan Lake Inn when the club owner, hearing Youngman tell his jokes between songs, decided to save money by firing the band and telling the funnyman to stay...
DIED. HERB CAEN, 80, classic newspaper columnist; in San Francisco. In the brightly written rat-a-tat of the daily column he produced for 58 years, mostly in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Pulitzer-prizewinning Caen was raconteur, funnyman, tipster, nightclubber, friend of the powerful and tireless chronicler of "Baghdad by the Bay," the city he loved and that loved him back...