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Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004), born Irwin Alan Kniberg, was an American comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He appeared in a number of movies and television shows. King wrote several books, produced films, and appeared in plays. In later years, he helped many philanthropic causes. He died of lung cancer on May 9, 2004. Image File history File links This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ...
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The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ...
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Childhood
The youngest of several children, King spent his first years on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Later, King's family moved to Brooklyn. King used humor to survive in the tough neighborhoods. As a child, King performed impersonations on street corners for pennies. Categories: Manhattan neighborhoods | Stub ...
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When he was fourteen, King performed "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime" on the radio program Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour. He lost first prize, but was invited to join a nationwide tour.
At fifteen, King dropped out of high school to perform comedy at the Hotel Gradus in the Catskill Mountains. After one joke that made fun of the hotel's owner, King was fired. He worked in Canada in a burlesque house while also fighting as a professional boxer. He won twenty straight fights before losing. Nursing a broken nose, King decided to quit boxing and focus on his comedy career. King began working as a doorman at the popular nightclub Leon and Eddie's while performing comedy under the last name of the boxer who beat him, "King." Catskill Escarpment and Blackhead Range as seen from Overlook Mountain The Catskill Mountains, a natural area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany, are not, despite their popular name, true geological mountains, but rather a mature dissected plateau, an uplifted region that was subsequently...
Burlesque was originally a form of art that mocked by imitation, referring to everything from comic sketches to dance routines and usually lampooning the social attitudes of upper classes. ...
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Career King started out with the usual routines of one-liners about mother-in-laws and Jews. King's style of comedy changed when he saw Danny Thomas performing in the early 1950s. King realized that Thomas was talking to his audience, not at them, and was getting a better response. King changed his own style from one-liners to a more conversational style that used everyday life for humor. His comedy inspired other comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and Billy Crystal. Image:Dannythomas. ...
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Jerry Seinfeld Jerome Jerry Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Jewish American actor, writer and comedian from Massapequa, New York, a Long Island, New York town. ...
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King married Jeanette Sprung in 1947. They had three children, Andrew, Robert, and Elainie Ray. His wife persuaded him to move to Forest Hills, Queens for their children. There, he developed comedy revolving around life in suburbia. With America moving to suburbs, King's humor took off. 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Queens Borough in New York City Queens, the most ethnically diverse county in the United States, is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City. ...
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King began opening for many celebrities including Judy Garland, Patti Page, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, Lena Horne and Tony Martin. When Martin was cast in the movie Hit the Deck, he suggested King for a part, which gave King his first movie role. King played small roles in movies in the 1950s, but disliked playing stereotypical roles that he described as "always the sergeant from Brooklyn named Kowalski." [1] King eventually expanded his range and made a name for himself playing gangsters in five movies, including Cats Eye and The Anderson Tapes. Judy Garland, circa 1943. ...
Patti Page on the cover of a collection, part of The Millenium Collection Patti Page (born Clara Ann Fowler on November 8, 1927) is one of the best-known female singers in traditional pop music. ...
Nat King Cole in The Blue Gardenia (1953) Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965) was a hugely popular American singer and jazz musician. ...
Billy Eckstine (8 July 1914 – 8 March 1993), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as William Clarence Eckstein. ...
Lena Horne photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 Lena Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American popular singer. ...
Tony Martin (born December 25, 1913) is an American actor and traditional pop singer. ...
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Like many other Jewish comics, King worked the Catskill circuit known as the Borscht Belt. His career took off after appearances on the Ed Sullivan, Perry Como, and Garry Moore Shows. King also became a regular guest host for the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, hosted the Oscars in 1972, and was the MC for President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961. King was also the long-standing host of the New York Friar's Club celebrity roasts. Catskill Escarpment and Blackhead Range as seen from Overlook Mountain The Catskill Mountains, a natural area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany, are not, despite their popular name, true geological mountains, but rather a mature dissected plateau, an uplifted region that was subsequently...
Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster Counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazic Jews. ...
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Perry Como, born Pierino Ronald Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an Italian American crooner during the latter half of the 20th century. ...
Garry Moore (or Gary Moore, although Gary Moore is a musician) (January 31, 1915 – November 28, 1993) was born in Baltimore, Maryland as Thomas Garrison Morfit. ...
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was the full name of NBCs The Tonight Show during the years that Johnny Carson hosted. ...
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Personal life In the 1960s, King's performances in Las Vegas led him to face up to a gambling addiction that made him limit his performances in Las Vegas. In the 1970s, King discovered one of his sons was addicted to drugs and turned him in to the police. King realized he had neglected his family and began spending more time at home. The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...
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Gambling (or betting) is any behavior involving risking money or property (making a wager or placing a stake) on the outcome of a game, contest, or other event in which the outcome of that activity depends partially or totally upon chance or upon ones ability to do something. ...
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Throughout his life, King was deeply involved in charity work. He founded the Alan King Medical Center in Jerusalem, raised funds for the Nassau Center for Emotionally Disturbed Children (near his home in Sands Point, New York), and established a chair in dramatic arts at Brandeis University. He also created the Laugh Well program, which sends comedians to hospitals to perform for patients. In the 1970s, King turned his passion for tennis into a pro tournament in Las Vegas called the Alan King Tennis Classic. He also started the Toyota Comedy Festival. Allegorical personification of Charity as a mother with three infants by Anthony van Dyck Charity is a term in Christian theology (one of the three theological virtues), meaning loving kindness towards others; it is held to be the ultimate perfection of the human spirit, because it is said to both...
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Sands Point is a village located in Long Islands prestigious North Shore at the northern tip of the Cow Neck Peninsula of Long Island in Nassau County, New York in the USA. 25 minutes from Manhattan. ...
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A life-long cigar smoker, King was forced to quit smoking in 1992 after cancer led to the removal of half his jaw. The cancer eventually returned. King died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan on May 9th, 2004, after succumbing to lung cancer. He was 76. Four cigars of different brands (from top: H. Upmann, Montecristo, Macanudo, Romeo y Julieta) A cigar, airtight storage tube, and guillotine-style cutter A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of tobacco leaves that have already been dried and fermented, which is lit (that is, ignited) for the purpose of...
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Quotes "Why is everybody carrying on about Woolworth's? Have you ever eaten at the counter at Woolworth's? If you wanted to sit in the Colony Club, I could understand." -King on lunch counter sit-ins during the 1960s F.W. Woolworth Company the original USA based chain of high street shops. ...
"The banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly bank. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?"
"My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails."
"Because no one could make the announcement 'Miss Garland will not appear tonight' better than I could." -King on why he opened for Judy Garland
"Modesty is not one of my virtues."
Queen Elizabeth II: "How do you do, Mr. King?" Alan King: "How do you do, Mrs. Queen?" Elizabeth II in an official portrait as Queen of Canada (on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 2002, wearing the Sovereigns badges of the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary) (born 21 April 1926), styled HM The...
"It even cleared out your nostrils, your sinuses, and the wax in your ears." -King on his mother's enemas A sinus is a pouch or cavity in any organ or tissue, or an abnormal cavity or passage caused by the destruction of tissue. ...
"As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced."
"There's gotta be a better way for a nice Jewish boy to make a living." -King on boxing
"The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life." Dictator was the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the state in times of emergency. ...
"Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'" Roman Catholic priest LCDR Allen R. Kuss (USN) aboard USS Enterprise A priest or priestess is a holy man or woman who takes an officiating role in worship of any religion, with the distinguishing characteristic of offering sacrifices. ...
"You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine." Shirley MacLaine as a young woman Shirley MacLaine, born Shirley MacLean Beaty (born April 24, 1934 in Richmond, Virginia), is an American actress, well-known not only for her acting but for her devotion to her belief in reincarnation. ...
Is it dishonest to fake an orgasm when you jerk off? An orgasm, also known as a sexual climax, is a pleasurable psychological or emotional response to prolonged sexual stimulation. ...
Masturbation is the manual excitation of the sexual organs, most often to the point of orgasm. ...
Filmography Hit the Deck is a musical theater production first staged at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway on April 25, 1927. ...
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1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
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Prince of the City is a film about a police officer who has to expose corruption in exchange for not being prosecuted himself. ...
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I, The Jury (1947) is Mickey Spillanes (b. ...
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Night and the City is a 1992 film remake of the 1950 film noir classic. ...
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Plays Guys And Dolls is a successful 1950 musical. ...
The Lion in Winter is a 1966 Broadway play by James Goldman. ...
Books - Anyone Who Owns His Own Home, Deserves One (1962)
- Help! I'm a Prisoner in a Chinese Bakery (1964)
- Name Dropping: The Life and Lies of Alan King
- Is Salami and Eggs Better Than Sex? Memoirs of a Happy Eater
- Matzoh Balls for Breakfast and Other Memories of Growing Up Jewish (2005)
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Sources - Author Unknown. Comic and actor Alan King dead at 76, CNN. (May 9, 2004)
- Ephross, Peter. Alan King a Model for Seinfeld, Crystal, Jewish Journal.
- Author Unknown. Alan King Remembered As Comedic Terminator, WNBC. (May 12, 2004)
- Weber, Bruce. Alan King, Comic With Chutzpah, Dies at 76, New York Times. (May 10, 2004)
- Williams, Stephen. The Comic Laureate Of Long Island, Newsday. (May 13, 2004)
- Vosburgh, Dick. Master of the 'angry' comic monologue, The Independent. (21 May 2004)
- Sen, Indrani Alan King Dies at 76, Newsday. (May 2004)
- Comic Alan King Dead at 76, Variety. (May 10, 2004)
- Cooper, Chet. Prescription for Laughter: An Interview with Alan King, Ability Magazine.
- Bernstein, Adam. Comedian and Actor Alan King Dies at 76, Washington Post. (May 10, 2004)
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