"Professor" Irwin Corey (born July 29, 1914) is an American comic, film actor and activist, often billed as "The World's Foremost Authority". He introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at the well-known San Francisco club, the hungry i. Lenny Bruce once described Corey as "one of the most brilliant comedians of all time".
Always wore a tux with tails, a la Groucho Marx, with gym shoes
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[on Ed Sullivan] Ed Sullivan was an anti-Semite and a very dull person in reality. No fucking talent at all! If you didn't do his show he would bad-mouth you in his column.
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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
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Fact
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Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 119-120. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
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Standup comic and occasional character actor (most notably in Car Wash (1976) and I'm Not Rappaport (1996)) who got his big break at San Francisco's legendary "hungry i" nightclub. His comic specialty was as a crazy professor delivering double-talk lectures.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001
Charlie (as Professor Irwin Corey)
The Boys Behind the Desk
2000
I'm Not Rappaport
1996
Sol
Jack
1996
Poppy
Basic Values: Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
1993
TV Movie
Sammy Fine
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1989
TV Series
Professor Irwin Corey
That's Adequate
1989
D.W. Godilla
The Perils of P.K.
1986
as Prof. Irwin Corey
Crackers
1984
Lazzarelli
Stuck on You!
1982
Judge Gabriel (as Professor Irwin Corey)
Fairy Tales
1978
Dr. Eyes (as 'Professor' Irwin Corey)
Thieves
1977
Joe Kaminsky
Car Wash
1976
The Mad Bomber (as Prof. Irwin Corey)
Doc
1975-1976
TV Series
Happy / 'Happy' Miller
Foreplay
1975
Professor Irwin Corey
How to Commit Marriage
1969
The Baba Ziba (as Professor Irwin Corey)
Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine
1964-1965
TV Series
Guest / Game Show Panelist / It Pays to be Ignorant Sketch / ...
The Phil Silvers Show
1959
TV Series
Chester Hilton
Omnibus
1958
TV Series
Dirty Joe
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show
1956-1957
TV Series
Stand up comic / Professor Irwin Corey
The Edge of Night
1956
TV Series
The Hobo (1981)
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Comeback Trail
1982
additional material
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Irwin & Fran
2013
Himself
The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi
2009
Documentary
American Swing
2008
Documentary
Himself (as Professor Irwin Corey)
Through the Years of Hip Hop, Vol. 1: Graffiti
2002
Video documentary
Himself (segment "Rock Box")
Now That's Funny! The Living Legends of Stand-up Comedy
2001
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Run-DMC: Together Forever - Greatest Hits 1983-2000
2000
Video
Himself (segment "Rock Box")
The 7th Annual American Comedy Awards
1993
TV Special
Himself
A Tribute to the Boys: Laurel & Hardy
1992
TV Special documentary
Himself (as Professor Irwin Corey)
The New Hollywood Squares
1988-1989
TV Series
Himself - Panelist
Late Night with David Letterman
1983
TV Series
Himself
Tom Cottle: Up Close
1982
TV Series
Himself
The Comeback Trail
1982
Himself
Everything Goes
1981
TV Series
Himself - Panelist
Hungry i reunion
1981
Documentary
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
1964-1979
TV Series
Himself - Comedian / Himself - Prof. Irwin Corey / Prof. Irwin Corey / ...