Life

Alan King

New York Times: Alan King, Exemplar of Jewish Comedy, Dies at 76
Alan King was my kind of comedian – my Dad’s, too. He straddled the divide between rimshot and one-liner performers and the modern-day monologuists like George Carlin and Bill Cosby, and he was smart as hell. His best stuff was topical, even a little controversial, but not like some of the younger set. King performed at the honeymoon resort in the Poconos that I worked at during my college summers, and even though he had a fairly non-Jewish New Yorker audience, he killed them (and us) that night. You could tell he was coasting a little, since this was the Poconos and not the Catskills, but the audience didn’t mind. We’ll miss him.