Shelley Berman

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Sheldon Leonard Berman (February 3, 1925 – September 1, 2017) was an American comedian, writer, lecturer, and poet, and he received three gold medals and first Grammy Award for a spoken comedy performance in 1959.

Larry David's father appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm, for which he was honoured with an Emmy Award nomination in 2008.

Early life and education

Berman was born in Chicago, the son of Irene (née Marks) and Nathan Berman. He was Jewish. Ronald, his younger brother, had an accident.

During WWII, he served in the Navy and was a member of the Royal Navy. He then enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) as a drama student. Sarah Herman, a fellow student, married in 1947; he married her in 1947. In Woodstock, Illinois, his acting career began with an acting company. The couple departed Woodstock in 1949 and made their way to New York City. He trained at the HB Studio and learned acting at the HB Studio. Berman discovered jobs as a social director, cab driver, assistant manager of a drug store, and a dance instructor at Arthur Murray Dance Studios, bringing a conclusion to an end.

Berman continued to work as a sketch writer for The Steve Allen Plymouth Show.

Personal life

Berman married Sarah Herman on April 19, 1947. Both actors appeared at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago while studying acting.

Berman and his wife Sarah adopted two children, son Joshua, and daughter Rachel in the mid-1960s. When Joshua was diagnosed with a brain tumor, the Bermans were organizing his Bar Mitzvah. Joshua died on October 29, 1977, at the age of 12.

Berman and his wife were supporters of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, a non-profit group that gives assistance and support to those in the motion picture and television industries with limited or no funding, as well as providing their time and funds to benefit the facility and the people.

The Chamber of Commerce in Canoga Park, California, selected Berman to be one of the eight celebrities to serve a term as honorary mayor of Canoga Park in the 1980s.

In a 2012 podcast interview with Marc Maron, Berman argued that comedian Bob Newhart plagiarized his improvisational telephone routine style, emphasizing that it was a "very special technique that could not be imitated." It could be stolen. And it was "OK." "I was going to work at night and a man stopped his car, passed me by," Shelley said.

There's a guy [who] stole your act!'"

Berman replied, "Maliciously?" if asked by Maron if it had been done unlawfully. He wouldn't do it maliciously. Nobody does that. However, he did it to make a living off it. He also became a celebrity."

When asked in interviews about the telephone issue, Newhart said: 'The telephone issue was not discussed.'

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Career

Berman began as a straight actor, receiving his training at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and appearing in and around Chicago and New York City.

He was a member of Chicago's Compass Players, which later became The Second City in the mid-1950s. Berman began to create solo pieces while performing improvised sketches with Compass, often using an imaginary telephone to replace an onstage partner.

Berman was hired as a comedian at Mister Kelly's in Chicago in 1957, which resulted in additional nightclub reservations and a recording contract with Verve Records. His comedy albums have garnered three gold medals, as well as the first Grammy Award for a spoken comedy film. Berman appeared on numerous television specials and all of the day's most popular variety shows.

He appeared on Broadway in A Family Affair and continued with stage appearances in The Odd Couple, Damn Yankees, Where's Charley, I'm Not Rappaport, Two by Two, La Cage aux Folles, The Prisoner of Second Avenue and Guys & Dolls.

Berman's voice was used as the basis for the voice of Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Fibber Fox, a Daws Butler performance.

In an episode of CBS' Rawhide ("The Peddler"), Berman portrayed Mendel Sorkin.

Berman appeared on CBS game show What's My Line in the early and mid-1960s fairly regularly as a panelist (and once as the "Mystery Guest" on the CBS game show What's My Line.

Berman appeared on television in both comedic and dramatic roles, as well as on television shows including appearances on Bewitched, Peter Gunn, The King of Queens, Bewitched, and Television's Anatomy, Robert Kennedy, Nathan Walker, L.A., Bewitted, Bewitched, Peter Gunn, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Beth Gibson, Stephen Grayson, Bethany, Austin, Texas, Matthew McGuire, CSI: NY, and the revived Hawaii Five-0 Walter & Emily, a short-lived sitcom, had also appeared on the short-lived sitcom Walter & Emily.

Berman appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm from 2002 to 2009, a position for which he received an Emmy Award nomination in 2008.

Dementia (1955, with Shorty Rogers), The Best Man (1964, with Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson), Every Home Should Have One (1970, with Marty Feldman), Beware! The Blob (1972, with Robert Walker Jr.), Rented Lips (1988, with Martin Mull and Robert Downey Jr.), The Last Producer (2004, with Robyn Lively and Zelda Rubinstein) and You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008, with Adam Sandler).

Berman was a lecturer (later lecturer emeritus) in humor writing in the University of Southern California's Master of Professional Writing program for more than 20 years. He served as a mentor for the Improv Olympics.

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