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Gold Member
- Banned
- #1
He had a great intellect and wit
Corey was born in 1914 and grew up in the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum during the Great Depression. He was famous for his stand-up appearances and showmanship — including an unforgettable acceptance speech on behalf of Thomas Pynchon in 1974 and campaigning for high office on Hugh Hefner’s Playboy ticket during the 1960 presidential election — as well as his performances in movies like “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion” and the bonkers 1976 comedy “Car Wash.”
He also welcomed several gadflies and ne’er-do-wells about town into his home for a toke and to bullshit about American imperialism and the framed letter of apology from Hefner on his living room wall, “which may qualify as the single most Jewish item in New York City,” according to Jay Ruttenberg’s “New York Punk” essay in the 2014 edition of The Lowbrow Reader. “Observant types, with their mezuzahs and ketubahs, are rendered mere goyim, trembling at the feet of the man with a framed letter of apology.”
Professor Irwin Corey dies at the ripe old age of 102
Corey was born in 1914 and grew up in the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum during the Great Depression. He was famous for his stand-up appearances and showmanship — including an unforgettable acceptance speech on behalf of Thomas Pynchon in 1974 and campaigning for high office on Hugh Hefner’s Playboy ticket during the 1960 presidential election — as well as his performances in movies like “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion” and the bonkers 1976 comedy “Car Wash.”
He also welcomed several gadflies and ne’er-do-wells about town into his home for a toke and to bullshit about American imperialism and the framed letter of apology from Hefner on his living room wall, “which may qualify as the single most Jewish item in New York City,” according to Jay Ruttenberg’s “New York Punk” essay in the 2014 edition of The Lowbrow Reader. “Observant types, with their mezuzahs and ketubahs, are rendered mere goyim, trembling at the feet of the man with a framed letter of apology.”
Professor Irwin Corey dies at the ripe old age of 102
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