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of a young girl who befriends an orphaned refugee
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appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Jewish comedian Billy Crystal, who
wrote the foreword for Great Jewish Joke
Book, says, "The book will make you
wo veteran performers — a
laugh. It will make you remember those
comedian and an actor-
funny men and women, relatives and
singer — will capture the
attention of attendees at this friends, old and young, comics and fur-
riers, who made us laugh. It's just like
year's Jewish Community Center's 51st
borscht — totally delicious, and then
Annual Jewish Book Fair.
you keep tasting it for a while."
Comedian Alan King, author of
Actually, most of the jokes in
Alan King's Great Jewish Joke
the
book — a mixture of one-
Book (Crown Publishers;
liners
and "story" jokes — will
$16.95) will, open the fair 8
be familiar to comedy buffs, but
p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6.
some of the long ones are new
. Robert Clary, the diminutive
and refreshing. The 173-page book
actor-singer who survived the
covers the Jewish Psyche, (Religious)
Holocaust and wrote From the
Observance, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Jewish
Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes (Madison
Women, Jewish Boys and Men, Jewish
Books; $26.95), will appear 8 p.m.
Mothers, Jewish Grandmothers, Rabbis,
Saturday, Nov. 9.
and Jews and Non-Jews.
Performing as a youngster, Irwin
King For A Day
Alan Kniberg sang for nickels and
dimes in the Brooklyn subways before
King, 74, is the erstwhile singer who
becoming Alan King and switching to
abandoned music for a standup comedy
career in the 1950s and has played come- the Catskills and burlesque theater .
dy clubs, concert halls, Broadway, movies comedy revues, then headlining at New
York's Paramount Theatre, opening for
and television ever since. Many Jewish
Judy Garland, and providing comedy
TV viewers remember his countless
relief in several movies.
With a number of books
and TV shows — as a per-
former and a producer —
under his belt, King is a
well-oiled comedy
machine, expounding on
his childhood, adventures
in suburbia, show business
experiences and the trials
and tribulations of married
life — "Last year I took
my wife on a trip around
the world. This year, she
said, 'Let's go someplace
else.'"
While much of his earli-
er material might not pass
muster in these more
politically correct times, it
usually brought down the
house — even in houses
dominated by females.
King's most recent the-
ater foray was starring as
Hollywood producer Sam
Goldwyn in the Off-
Broadway production 11/1):
Goldwyn. Of the book, he
says, candidly, "I've proba-
Joke-meister Alan King opens Book Fair on Nov. 6
BILL CARROLL
Special to the Jewish News
Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002 • 2 p.m.
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