Shelley Berman – Inside Label: Verve Records – MG V-15003 Series: Celebrity Series (2) Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1959 Genre: Non-Music Style: Comedy A.1 Flying 14:21 A.2 Phoning A Department Store About A Women On A Ledge 5:57 B.1 Buttermilk, Zen, Nostalgia 5:38 B.2 The Morning After The Night Before 7:42 B.3 Embarrassing Moments 9:48 B.4 Phone Call With A Small Child 3:45 Record Company – Verve Records, Inc. Liner Notes – KUP*, Mort Sahl Photography By [Photo] – Don Faulkner Written-By – Shelley Berman A panoramic true Hi-Fi recording. Printed in U.S.A. Verve Records, Inc. Made in U.S.A. High fidelity. Matrix / Runout (Side A label): 50,664 Matrix / Runout (Side B label): 50,665 Matrix / Runout (Side A runouts): MGV-15003-A Matrix / Runout (Side B runouts): MGV-15003-B Sheldon Leonard Berman (February 3, 1925 – September 1, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, teacher, and lecturer.[1] In his comedic career, he was awarded three gold records and he won the first Grammy Award for a spoken comedy recording in 1959.[2] He played Larry David's father on Curb Your Enthusiasm, a role for which he received a 2008 Emmy Award nomination.[3] Berman taught humor writing at the University of Southern California for more than 20 years.[4] Berman was born in Chicago, the son of Irene (née Marks) and Nathan Berman. He was Jewish.[5] He had a younger brother, Ronald.[6] He served in the Navy during World War II.[7] He then enrolled in Chicago's Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) as a drama student. There he met fellow student Sarah Herman; they married in 1947.[7] His acting career began with an acting company in Woodstock, Illinois.[5] Leaving Woodstock in 1949, the couple made their way to New York City.[8] He studied acting at the HB Studio.[9] To make ends meet, Berman found employment as a social director, cab driver, speech teacher, assistant manager of a drug store, and a dance instructor at Arthur Murray Dance Studios.[8] Eventually, Berman found work as a sketch writer for The Steve Allen Plymouth Show.[10] Career Early career Berman began as a straight actor, receiving his training at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, performing in stock companies in and around Chicago and New York City.[11] In the mid-1950s, he became a member of Chicago's Compass Players, which later evolved into The Second City.[12] While performing improvised sketches with Compass, Berman began to develop solo pieces, often employing an imaginary telephone to take the place of an onstage partner.[12] Nightclubs and live performances In 1957, Berman was hired as a comedian at Mister Kelly's in Chicago, which led to other nightclub bookings, and a recording contract with Verve Records.[13] His comedy albums earned him three gold records and he won the first Grammy Award for a spoken comedy recording.[2] Berman appeared on numerous television specials and all of the major variety shows of the day.[2] He starred on Broadway in A Family Affair and continued with stage work in The Odd Couple, Damn Yankees, Where's Charley?, Fiddler on the Roof, Two by Two, I'm Not Rappaport, La Cage aux Folles, The Prisoner of Second Avenue and Guys & Dolls.[13] Berman's voice was used as the inspiration for the voice of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Fibber Fox, performed by Daws Butler.[14] Television career Berman portrayed the role of Mendel Sorkin in an episode of CBS's Rawhide ("The Peddler", 1962).[15] Berman also appeared fairly regularly as a panelist (and once as the "Mystery Guest") on the CBS game show What's My Line in the early and mid-1960s. Berman performed both comedic and dramatic roles on television, including appearances on episodes of The Twilight Zone (both radio and TV versions), Bewitched, Peter Gunn, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Adam-12, Emergency!, Brothers, Night Court, MacGyver, L.A. Law, Friends, Walker, Texas Ranger, The King of Queens, Grey's Anatomy, Boston Legal, Lizzie McGuire, Hannah Montana, CSI: NY and the revived Hawaii Five-0.[16][17] He also had a recurring role on the short-lived sitcom Walter & Emily.[18] From 2002 to 2009, Berman appeared as Larry David's aged father on Curb Your Enthusiasm, a role for which he received a 2008 Emmy Award nomination.[3] ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aa_SerAwbg

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