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Morey Amsterdam (December 14, 1908 – October 27, 1996) was a veteran American television actor and comedian, renowned for his large, ready supply of jokes. Image File history File linksMetadata MoreyAMG73. ...
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Early Career
Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, to a Jewish family, he began working in vaudeville in 1922 as the straight man for his brother's jokes. He was also a cellist, a skill which he used throughout his career. By 1924, he was working in a speakeasy operated by Al Capone. After being caught in a gun fight, Amsterdam moved to California and sought work writing jokes. His enormous repertoire and ability to come up with a joke on any subject earned him the nickname "The Human Joke Machine." He sometimes performed with an actual machine on his chest, hanging by a neck strap. When he turned a hand crank on the gadget and paper rolled out, he would then read the machine's joke -- although the paper was blank. Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 606. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
Radio During the 1930s, Amsterdam hosted a radio show and also wrote songs, including "Why Oh Why Did I Ever Leave Wyoming." He copyrighted the popular "Rum and Coca-Cola," although the song was written by a Trinidadian calypsonian, Lord Invader. Amsterdam lost an eventual copyright suit over the song. In the early 1940s he wrote additional dialog for two of the East Side Kids films. By 1947, he was performing on three daily radio shows. Rum and Coca-Cola is the title of a popular calypso song. ...
Rupert Grant, more commonly known as Lord Invader, was a prominent calypsonian with a very distinctive, gravelly voice. ...
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Beginning in 1948, he appeared on the radio show Stop Me If You've Heard This One. Roger Bower, host of Stop Me If Youve Heard This One Stop Me If Youve Heard This One was a comedy radio series, created by the actor-humorist Cal Tinney (February 2, 1908-December 2, 1993) and sponsored by Quaker Oats. ...
Television In 1948 he began hosting his own television show, The Morey Amsterdam Show. In 1950 this was replaced by the comedy-variety show, Broadway Open House, television's first late-night entertainment show, on the DuMont Television Network. Among his guests was a song and dance man named Art Carney. The Morey Amsterdam Show was a television sitcom which ran from 1948 to 1949 on CBS and from 1949 to 1950 on DuMont. ...
Broadway Open House began in the late 1940s as televisions first late-night variety and talk show, hosted by Morey Amsterdam, on the DuMont Television Network. ...
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Amsterdam's most famous role may have been as comedy writer Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966), a role suggested for him by his friend Rose Marie, who also appeared on the show. Amsterdam wrote lyrics for the shows theme song that were never performed on the air but were performed by Dick Van Dyke in concert. The Dick Van Dyke Show was an American television situation comedy which aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to September 7, 1966. ...
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Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ...
Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an actress who had a career as a child star under the name Baby Rose Marie but is best known for her adult role as Sally Rogers in the The Dick Van Dyke Show. ...
Richard Wayne Dick Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an Emmy-Award winning American actor of film, stage, and screen, comedian and dancer. ...
Amsterdam also played "Cappy", owner of the local nightclub, in the Beach Party movies. There are arguably two surf movie genres. ...
Amsterdam and Rose Marie later appeared as panelists on The Hollywood Squares and guest-starred together in a February 1996 episode of the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City. They also co-starred in the 1966 film, "Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title", a comedy co-written and co-produced by Amsterdam. (The film also features Richard Deacon, their co-star on "The Dick Van Dyke Show", and a cameo by the show's co-producer Danny Thomas.) Hollywood Squares is a American television comedy and game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money and prizes. ...
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Amsterdam also was an occasional panelist on Match Game during the 1970s. The Match Game was an American television game show, most often hosted by Gene Rayburn. ...
Death Amsterdam died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1996 and was interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles, California. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), more commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ...
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Bibliography - 1959: Keep Laughing. (Citadel Press) ASIN B0007E665M.
- 1977: Morey Amsterdam's Benny Cooker Crock Book for Drinkers. (Regnery) ISBN 0809281384.
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