For more clips like this, and a most enjoyable guide to pop culture, visit the blog for the NYC cult cable-access show Media Funhouse, located here:
www.mediafunhouse.blogspot.com
The stand-up leg...
For more clips like this, and a most enjoyable guide to pop culture, visit the blog for the NYC cult cable-access show Media Funhouse, located here: www.mediafunhouse.blogspot.com
The stand-up legend, progenitor of all neurotic comedians that followed (and best known these days as Larry David's bald, bespectacled dad on "Curb Your Enthusiasm"), was interviewed at the Hollywood Collectors Show for the cult Manhattan cable access program Media Funhouse. Following a discussion of his improv roots at the Compass Theater troupe, we discussed the way his comedy relates to the work of Kafka (no worry--this ain't an academic discussion), and how he was the first of the "neurotic Jewish" stand-ups, years before Woody Allen. Mr. Berman veered off into a new routine--again, a mixture of sharp reality and utter anguish--about phone voicemail.
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the firt time i saw this guy was on larry david's show. i love this guy. I'm curious about his older stuff. I guess it's just start searching. Man can he smoke a joint, too.
I first heard Shelley after obtaining the great compilation album 'Let Me Tell You A Funny Story' from my grandmother, which I still have. Pure genius.
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I heard it in South Africa
And he looks great.