Forgot to post this yesterday: Happy 90th birthday to "Professor" Irwin Corey who's currently appearing on Broadway in the revival of Larry Gelbart's Sly Fox and everyone who's seen it tells me he's the funniest thing on the stage. This is easy to believe about one of the funniest comedians around…a man who has raised the bar for incoherent muttering and elevated rambling to a high art. How this man didn't wind up in politics, I'll never know. Years ago on the old Steve Allen Show, the Professor often managed to bring utter chaos to the festivities…you could tell Steve didn't know where things were going and neither did Corey.
That and his age probably disqualify Irwin Corey from gracing the guest chair next to any of the current talk show hosts…but I sure wish one of them would go against current trends and book the guy.