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3 days ago · “There was Mike and Elaine (Nichols & May), Shelley Berman, Mort Sahl, myself, Johnny Winters and Lenny Bruce. We weren’t doing ‘take my wife, please’ jokes. We weren’t doing ‘jokes ...
4 days ago · “Mike (Nichols) and Elaine (May), Shelley (Berman), Lenny Bruce, Johnny Winters, Mort Sahl — we didn’t all get together and say, `Let’s change comedy and slow it down.′ It was just our ...
3 days ago · (Comedian Shelley Berman later accused Mr. Newhart of stealing his act, but the phone call has been a comedy staple almost since the time of Alexander Graham Bell.)
4 days ago · “Mike (Nichols) and Elaine (May), Shelley (Berman), Lenny Bruce, Johnny Winters, Mort Sahl — we didn’t all get together and say, `Let’s change comedy and slow it down.′ It was just our ...
4 days ago · ‘There was Mike and Elaine (Nichols & May), Shelley Berman, Mort Sahl, myself, Johnny Winters and Lenny Bruce. ‘We weren’t doing “take my wife, please” jokes. We weren’t doing “jokes ...
4 days ago · Of all the revolutionary comedians of the era such as Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Shelley Berman, Nachman wrote, “Newhart was the most Everyman of them all — nonethnic, nonabrasive, non-angst ...
3 days ago · “There was a big sea change in comedy. There was Mike [Nichols] and Elaine [May], Shelley Berman, myself, Jonathan Winters and Lenny Bruce.