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OFFICIAL! Comedian/actor; Director, @ARISTOCRATSfilm; Host @GreenRoomWithPP; coauthor @SATIRISTAS; Prod, @SETLISTSHOW All are welcome here. Amuse me!

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He told me and Dan Pasternack that Elvis was originally going to be the headliner - but the first night went so poorly and they switched the order to Elvis opening and Shecky closing for the rest of the engagement.

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Shecky Greene was actually a great actor as is evident in this episode of Combat from 1962, directed by Robert Altman. Shecky was a series regular for a handful of episode in the first season. youtube.com/watch?v=nxdqd5…

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The name ‘Shecky’ is often used to suggest an old school, hacky comic - but truth is Shecky was a true artist. An innovator, improviser, storyteller & confessional comedian when all of those were unheard of in standup.
One of the GREATS. reviewjournal.com/entertainment/…

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Shecky Greene was a brilliant, complicated man. When Paul Provenza and I visited him in Las Vegas last year, he said that he was the 1st comic ever to perform in a casino lounge. And he shared that he was on the same aircraft carrier in WWII as Jonathan Winters. What a life. RIP.

Shecky Greene was a brilliant, complicated man. When @PaulProvenza and I visited him in Las Vegas last year, he said that he was the 1st comic ever to perform in a casino lounge. And he shared that he was on the same aircraft carrier in WWII as Jonathan Winters. What a life. RIP.
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Simpleton? Genius? Who was Tom Smothers?

'He was close with John Lennon, and had a sophisticated understanding of wine, politics and literature. He only played the bumpkin onstage.'
nytimes.com/2023/12/28/art…

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Woof. Losing Tommy Smothers is a heartbreaker. Another trailblazer gone. Thanks for calling out the horrors of war and power and inequality, you suffered the consequences and you did it anyway.

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It was a joy & an honor to call you a friend.
A true comedy great & a kind, caring human.
And goddammit you were funny as all hell.

Thanks for generously being part of ⁦The ARISTOCRATS!⁩, ⁦The Green Room
AND ¡SATIRISTAS!
nytimes.com/2023/12/27/art…

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Tommy Smothers took the lumps so comedians today can say what they want.

Sex, foreign policy, religion, and marijuana were taboo subject matter before the Smothers Brothers.

Those who would've been their adversaries in the 1960s want you to believe exactly the opposite today.

Tommy Smothers took the lumps so comedians today can say what they want. Sex, foreign policy, religion, and marijuana were taboo subject matter before the Smothers Brothers. Those who would've been their adversaries in the 1960s want you to believe exactly the opposite today.
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