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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Lightnin' Rod on February 07, 2017, 09:17:48 AM

Title: RIP, "Professor" Irwin Corey, 102
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on February 07, 2017, 09:17:48 AM

Funny guy.  102!  No cause of death mentioned, but at 102 I don't think it's necessary.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/professor-irwin-corey-comic-master-of-intellectual-doublespeak-dies-at-102/ar-AAmHwLA?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

Title: Re: RIP, "Professor" Irwin Corey, 102
Post by: dischead on February 07, 2017, 03:36:45 PM

Certainly in the "he was still alive?" category.  He performed at my college in the '70s, and he
wasn't a young man then.  I recall his show as being markedly scatalogical.  A much racier
version of Victor Borges-style double talk.

A precursor to the naughty innuendo now widely practiced by drive-time jocks.

Title: Re: RIP, "Professor" Irwin Corey, 102
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on February 08, 2017, 04:42:55 PM

Quote from: dischead on February 07, 2017, 03:36:45 PM

Certainly in the "he was still alive?" category. 

Absolutely. I remember him appearing on Frank & Mike in the 1980's, and it always sounded as if he had one foot in the grave.