Word: steverino
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...play Stump the Band, or sit at the piano and invent a song from words suggested by the audience. He did "remotes" from outside the theater: the Man on the Street interviews that later became treasured schtick with his own comedy troupe of Louis Nye ("Hi-ho, Steverino!"), Don Knotts ("No!"), Bill Dana ("My name, "Jose Jimenez"), Dayton Allen ("Why not?") and Tom Poston (an eloquently vague "_______"). One famous night, when disappointed by the flat response to his monologue, Allen went into the audience, started a conga line that eventually included the entire crowd, led them onto the street, then...
...doing radio - still hosting a talk show, even when no one else was talking and his only audience was a stenographer. He became a relic of his time, a bespectacled version of a '56 Coupe de Ville. It took his death to remind people that, like that old Caddy, Steverino was a classic...
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