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The Complete Out-Of-Print 1989 Live Performance Video Of "The World's Greatest Authority", The Comedy King Of Double-Talk, Presented As An Archival Quality Audio CD, MP3 Audio Download Or USB Flash Drive! #IrwinCorey #ProfessorIrwinCorey #StandUpComedy #WorldsForemostAuthority #Comedy #AmericanComedy #Framis #HungryI #TV #Television #TVShows #TelevisionShows #TVInTheUS #TelevisionInTheUS #Stage #Theatre #Theater #Broadway #GoldenGloves #GoldenGlovesBoxingChampions #Boxers #FeatherweightBoxers #HebrewOrphanAsylumOfNewYork #CCC #Blacklisting #BlackLists #LateNightWithDavidLetterman #DavidLetterman #TheTonightShow #TonightShow #JohnnyCarson #HughHefner #PlayboyTicket #ThomasPynchon #GravitysRainbow #WJAR #TheSteveAllenShow #ThePhilSilversShow #AbouBenAtom #BroadwayMusicals #Flahooley #RollingStones #BernieSanders #TheMervGriffinShow #MervGriffinShowShow #MervGriffin #MP3 #CD #AudioDownload #USBFlashDrive
Contents:
01-Introductory Remarks
02-King George
03-Our Government
04-Jews
05-Haykal Was Right
06-Sodom & Gomorrah
07-A Few Observations
08-Cacostocracy
09-The Meaning Of Life
10-The AMA
11-The Economy
12-Stupid Questions
Irwin Corey, American stand-up comic, actor and activist (July 29, 1914 - February 6, 2017) was born in Brooklyn, New York. Often billed as Professor Irwin Corey, The World's Foremost Authority, he introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at the San Francisco club, the hungry i. Lenny Bruce described Corey as "one of the most brilliant comedians of all time". Poverty-stricken after his father deserted the family, his mother was forced to place him and his five siblings in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, where Corey remained until his early teens. He then rode in boxcars out to California, and enrolled himself at Belmont High School in Los Angeles. During the Great Depression he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps and, while working his way back East, became a featherweight Golden Gloves boxing champion. In 1938, Corey returned to New York, where he got a job writing and performing in Pins and Needles, a musical comedy revue about a union organizer in the "garment district". He claimed that he was fired from this job for his union organizing activities. Five years later, he was working in New Faces of 1943 and appearing at the Village Vanguard, doing his stand-up comedy routine. He was drafted during World War II, but was discharged after six months, after he claimed he convinced an Army psychiatrist that he was a homosexual. From the late 1940s, he cultivated his "Professor" character. Dressed in seedy formal wear and sneakers, with his bushy hair sprouting in all directions, Corey would amble on stage in a preoccupied manner, then begin his monologue with "However ..." He created a new style of double-talk comedy; instead of making up nonsense words like "krelman" and "trilloweg", like double-talker Al Kelly, the Professor would season his speech with many long and florid, but authentic, words. The professor would then launch into observations about anything under the sun, but seldom actually making sense. Changing topics suddenly, he would wander around the stage, pontificating all the while. His quick wit allowed him to hold his own against the most stubborn straight man, heckler or interviewer. One fan of Corey's comedy, despite their radically different politics, was Ayn Rand. Theatre critic Kenneth Tynan wrote of the Professor in The New Yorker, "Corey is a cultural clown, a parody of literacy, a travesty of all that our civilization holds dear, and one of the funniest grotesques in America. He is Chaplin's tramp with a college education". During the 1960 election, Corey campaigned for president on Hugh Hefner's Playboy ticket. In 1951, Corey appeared as "Abou Ben Atom", the Genie, in the cult flop Broadway musical Flahooley along with Yma Sumac, the Bil and Cora Baird Marionettes and Barbara Cook (in her Broadway debut). Corey's performance of "Springtime Cometh" can be heard on the show's original cast album. Corey supported Communist/Socialist left-wing politics. He appeared in support of Cuban children, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the American Communist Party, and was blacklisted in the 1950s, the effects of which he stated lingered throughout his life. Corey appeared occasionally in 1950s television as a character actor. He appeared in an episode of The Phil Silvers Show titled "Bilko's Grand Hotel", in which Corey plays an unkempt Bowery bum being passed off as a hotelier by Sgt. Bilko. The Professor was a frequent guest comic on variety shows and a guest panelist on game shows during the 1960s and 1970s. Corey became so synonymous with comic erudition that, when a Providence, Rhode Island television station, WJAR-TV, wanted a spokesman to explain changes in network affiliations, Corey got the job. Lecturing with pointer in hand, Corey manipulated magnetic signs to demonstrate how television schedules would be disrupted. By the end of the commercial, the visual aids were in shambles and the professor had meandered from his original point. Corey would do the same promos for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee in 1977 during the time that rival stations WITI and WISN-TV switched affiliations. Corey often appeared on The Steve Allen Show (1962-1964), whereupon he would end his rambling stand-up routine with Allen and stage hands literally chasing Corey with a giant butterfly net. He later guest starred on The Donald O'Connor Show in 1968. Corey appeared in various Broadway productions, including as a gravedigger in a production of Hamlet. Corey became so synonymous with comic erudition that, when a Providence, Rhode Island television station, WJAR-TV, wanted a spokesman to explain changes in network affiliations, Corey got the job. Lecturing with pointer in hand, Corey manipulated magnetic signs to demonstrate how television schedules would be disrupted. By the end of the commercial, the visual aids were in shambles and the professor had meandered from his original point. Corey would do the same promos for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee in 1977 during the time that rival stations WITI and WISN-TV switched affiliations. Corey often appeared on The Steve Allen Show (1962-1964), whereupon he would end his rambling stand-up routine with Allen and stage hands literally chasing Corey with a giant butterfly net. He later guest starred on The Donald O'Connor Show in 1968. Corey was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show hosted by Johnny Carson during the late 1960s and early 1970s. During the last 1970s and early 1980s, he was a frequent guest on The Merv Griffin Show. Corey appeared in various Broadway productions, including as a gravedigger in a production of Hamlet. When the publicity-shy Thomas Pynchon won the National Book Award Fiction Citation for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974, he asked Corey to accept it on his behalf. The New York Times described the resulting speech as "...a series of bad jokes and mangled syntax which left some people roaring with laughter and others perplexed." In 1975, Corey gave a typically long-winded, nonsensical performance in New York City for journalists waiting for the Rolling Stones to announce the band's 1975 Tour of the Americas. The press was still listening to Corey ramble on when they finally noticed that the Stones were playing "Brown Sugar" on a flatbed truck driving down Fifth Avenue. Corey first performed on Late Night with David Letterman in 1982, but never returned, which Cory claimed was a result of the blacklist still being in effect. In 2009, filmmaker Jordan Stone began filming what was to become an award-winning documentary film called "Irwin and Fran". Political activist and fellow stand-up comedian Dick Gregory shared some in-depth and provocative memories and Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon narrated in a very personal tone. The film won The People's Film Festival Best Film Award in 2013. Corey was married for 70 years to Frances Berman Corey, who died in May 2011. The couple had two children, the late Margaret Davis, nee Corey, an actress, and Richard Corey, a painter. In 2011, the New York Times reported that Corey was still performing, and also had been soliciting change from drivers near his Manhattan residence, and donating the money to Cuban children. His agent said that Corey was not in financial distress, and a neighbor described it as a performance. During the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Corey endorsed Vermont United States Senator Bernie Sanders for the nomination and presidency. Corey died at the age of 102 on February 6, 2017, at his apartment in Manhattan with his son, Richard, at his side.
The Complete Out-Of-Print 1989 Live Performance Video Of "The World's Greatest Authority", The Comedy King Of Double-Talk, Presented As An Archival Quality Audio CD, MP3 Audio Download Or USB Flash Drive! #IrwinCorey #ProfessorIrwinCorey #StandUpComedy #WorldsForemostAuthority #Comedy #AmericanComedy #Framis #HungryI #TV #Television #TVShows #TelevisionShows #TVInTheUS #TelevisionInTheUS #Stage #Theatre #Theater #Broadway #GoldenGloves #GoldenGlovesBoxingChampions #Boxers #FeatherweightBoxers #HebrewOrphanAsylumOfNewYork #CCC #Blacklisting #BlackLists #LateNightWithDavidLetterman #DavidLetterman #TheTonightShow #TonightShow #JohnnyCarson #HughHefner #PlayboyTicket #ThomasPynchon #GravitysRainbow #WJAR #TheSteveAllenShow #ThePhilSilversShow #AbouBenAtom #BroadwayMusicals #Flahooley #RollingStones #BernieSanders #TheMervGriffinShow #MervGriffinShowShow #MervGriffin #MP3 #CD #AudioDownload #USBFlashDrive
Contents:
01-Introductory Remarks
02-King George
03-Our Government
04-Jews
05-Haykal Was Right
06-Sodom & Gomorrah
07-A Few Observations
08-Cacostocracy
09-The Meaning Of Life
10-The AMA
11-The Economy
12-Stupid Questions
Irwin Corey, American stand-up comic, actor and activist (July 29, 1914 - February 6, 2017) was born in Brooklyn, New York. Often billed as Professor Irwin Corey, The World's Foremost Authority, he introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at the San Francisco club, the hungry i. Lenny Bruce described Corey as "one of the most brilliant comedians of all time". Poverty-stricken after his father deserted the family, his mother was forced to place him and his five siblings in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, where Corey remained until his early teens. He then rode in boxcars out to California, and enrolled himself at Belmont High School in Los Angeles. During the Great Depression he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps and, while working his way back East, became a featherweight Golden Gloves boxing champion. In 1938, Corey returned to New York, where he got a job writing and performing in Pins and Needles, a musical comedy revue about a union organizer in the "garment district". He claimed that he was fired from this job for his union organizing activities. Five years later, he was working in New Faces of 1943 and appearing at the Village Vanguard, doing his stand-up comedy routine. He was drafted during World War II, but was discharged after six months, after he claimed he convinced an Army psychiatrist that he was a homosexual. From the late 1940s, he cultivated his "Professor" character. Dressed in seedy formal wear and sneakers, with his bushy hair sprouting in all directions, Corey would amble on stage in a preoccupied manner, then begin his monologue with "However ..." He created a new style of double-talk comedy; instead of making up nonsense words like "krelman" and "trilloweg", like double-talker Al Kelly, the Professor would season his speech with many long and florid, but authentic, words. The professor would then launch into observations about anything under the sun, but seldom actually making sense. Changing topics suddenly, he would wander around the stage, pontificating all the while. His quick wit allowed him to hold his own against the most stubborn straight man, heckler or interviewer. One fan of Corey's comedy, despite their radically different politics, was Ayn Rand. Theatre critic Kenneth Tynan wrote of the Professor in The New Yorker, "Corey is a cultural clown, a parody of literacy, a travesty of all that our civilization holds dear, and one of the funniest grotesques in America. He is Chaplin's tramp with a college education". During the 1960 election, Corey campaigned for president on Hugh Hefner's Playboy ticket. In 1951, Corey appeared as "Abou Ben Atom", the Genie, in the cult flop Broadway musical Flahooley along with Yma Sumac, the Bil and Cora Baird Marionettes and Barbara Cook (in her Broadway debut). Corey's performance of "Springtime Cometh" can be heard on the show's original cast album. Corey supported Communist/Socialist left-wing politics. He appeared in support of Cuban children, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the American Communist Party, and was blacklisted in the 1950s, the effects of which he stated lingered throughout his life. Corey appeared occasionally in 1950s television as a character actor. He appeared in an episode of The Phil Silvers Show titled "Bilko's Grand Hotel", in which Corey plays an unkempt Bowery bum being passed off as a hotelier by Sgt. Bilko. The Professor was a frequent guest comic on variety shows and a guest panelist on game shows during the 1960s and 1970s. Corey became so synonymous with comic erudition that, when a Providence, Rhode Island television station, WJAR-TV, wanted a spokesman to explain changes in network affiliations, Corey got the job. Lecturing with pointer in hand, Corey manipulated magnetic signs to demonstrate how television schedules would be disrupted. By the end of the commercial, the visual aids were in shambles and the professor had meandered from his original point. Corey would do the same promos for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee in 1977 during the time that rival stations WITI and WISN-TV switched affiliations. Corey often appeared on The Steve Allen Show (1962-1964), whereupon he would end his rambling stand-up routine with Allen and stage hands literally chasing Corey with a giant butterfly net. He later guest starred on The Donald O'Connor Show in 1968. Corey appeared in various Broadway productions, including as a gravedigger in a production of Hamlet. Corey became so synonymous with comic erudition that, when a Providence, Rhode Island television station, WJAR-TV, wanted a spokesman to explain changes in network affiliations, Corey got the job. Lecturing with pointer in hand, Corey manipulated magnetic signs to demonstrate how television schedules would be disrupted. By the end of the commercial, the visual aids were in shambles and the professor had meandered from his original point. Corey would do the same promos for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee in 1977 during the time that rival stations WITI and WISN-TV switched affiliations. Corey often appeared on The Steve Allen Show (1962-1964), whereupon he would end his rambling stand-up routine with Allen and stage hands literally chasing Corey with a giant butterfly net. He later guest starred on The Donald O'Connor Show in 1968. Corey was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show hosted by Johnny Carson during the late 1960s and early 1970s. During the last 1970s and early 1980s, he was a frequent guest on The Merv Griffin Show. Corey appeared in various Broadway productions, including as a gravedigger in a production of Hamlet. When the publicity-shy Thomas Pynchon won the National Book Award Fiction Citation for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974, he asked Corey to accept it on his behalf. The New York Times described the resulting speech as "...a series of bad jokes and mangled syntax which left some people roaring with laughter and others perplexed." In 1975, Corey gave a typically long-winded, nonsensical performance in New York City for journalists waiting for the Rolling Stones to announce the band's 1975 Tour of the Americas. The press was still listening to Corey ramble on when they finally noticed that the Stones were playing "Brown Sugar" on a flatbed truck driving down Fifth Avenue. Corey first performed on Late Night with David Letterman in 1982, but never returned, which Cory claimed was a result of the blacklist still being in effect. In 2009, filmmaker Jordan Stone began filming what was to become an award-winning documentary film called "Irwin and Fran". Political activist and fellow stand-up comedian Dick Gregory shared some in-depth and provocative memories and Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon narrated in a very personal tone. The film won The People's Film Festival Best Film Award in 2013. Corey was married for 70 years to Frances Berman Corey, who died in May 2011. The couple had two children, the late Margaret Davis, nee Corey, an actress, and Richard Corey, a painter. In 2011, the New York Times reported that Corey was still performing, and also had been soliciting change from drivers near his Manhattan residence, and donating the money to Cuban children. His agent said that Corey was not in financial distress, and a neighbor described it as a performance. During the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Corey endorsed Vermont United States Senator Bernie Sanders for the nomination and presidency. Corey died at the age of 102 on February 6, 2017, at his apartment in Manhattan with his son, Richard, at his side.