On Location With Myron Cohen

This HBO presentation filmed in Warwick, RI is a very special night, highlighting the career of comedy genius Myron Cohen.

As host Steve Allen points out, Myron Cohen is the consummate dialect comedian. Using this ability, along with his trademark facial expressions, Mr. Cohen entertains us with his storytelling humor and social commentary. Although he talked slowly, he always had his audiences on the edge of their seats!

Whether it's laughing at his words or looks, this kind of comedy is very rare today.

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[KulturFilms]

Thank you to all who has enjoyed our clip. Kultur offers two On Location DVDs featuring Myron Cohen. If you enjoy this clip, then you'll love the rest of the HBO On Location Series featuring comedians such as Shelley Berman, Pat Cooper, Norm Crosby, Totie Fields, George Kirby, Phyllis Diller, Frank Gorshin, Redd Foxx.

Please visit our website for more details on this and all of our DVDs.

[OCPD]

Thanks for presenting this one of a kind genius.

[betteroffsingle]

He was great and at his best perhaps with Johnny Carson.

Does anyone recall his everyone's gotta be someplace?

He was super great at dialect jokes, which of course due to pol. correctness you won't hear too much if any these days. Wow ,,, seeing the comment above this one reminds me of other greats I recall from younger days. I still have some of these in LP form stored in Ca. I remember when Shelly Berman was king too.

Thanks very much for this clip. Appreciated.

[bigdave55b2]

I used to love this guy on the Ed Sullivan Show.

[CocteauDalighari]

There's one Cohen tells about the son who finds his father watching basketball: he's astounded; the old man never watches sports. He says, "Hey, pop: what's the score?" "Seventy-two to seventy." "Who's winning?" "Seventy-two."

[thevoice9991]

@mondofzz

Wind bag????? Are you like the character Tommy? That deaf dumb and blind kid. Only someone either very young or very uninformed would ask a question like that. Before the internet and TV there was the borscht belt and great comics who use to set up the joke. Do some research before you knock a whole generation of artists, before def comedy jam... hahahaha

[mondofzz]

Maybe I'm immature, but Henny Youngman never gave "intros" to his jokes. "I first did this mother-in-law joke back in 1956 in Miami Beach.  It was written by a young comedy writer by the name of Irv Lipshchitz. Enjoy..."

[bookgirlish]

@mondofzz You don't get that? The subtext of what Cohen said with his introduction was, "I'm about to tell a joke that describes the crazy antics of a wacky subculture. In other words, this joke is about you people!" Instead of merely laughing at the joke, they're all knowingly laughing about themselves.

[Bogframe]

@KulturFilms Are you releasing the Buddy Hackett one too?

[wlipman]

@mondofzz Maybe someday when you grow up and actually know anything, you'll understand what a treasure it is to have Myron Cohen on YouTube.