"Professor" Irwin Corey (born July 29, 1914, Brooklyn, New York) is an American comic, film actor and left-wing political activist, who is often billed as 'The World's Foremost Authority'. He is credited with inventing his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at Enrico Banducci's San Francisco club the hungry i.
Lenny Bruce once described Corey as "one of the most brilliant comedians of all time".
Irwin Corey was born in 1914 in B...
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"Professor" Irwin Corey (born July 29, 1914, Brooklyn, New York) is an American comic, film actor and left-wing political activist, who is often billed as 'The World's Foremost Authority'. He is credited with inventing his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at Enrico Banducci's San Francisco club the hungry i.
Lenny Bruce once described Corey as "one of the most brilliant comedians of all time".
Irwin Corey was born in 1914 in Brooklyn, New York. Born into a poverty-stricken household, his parents were forced to place him and his five siblings in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, where Corey remained until the age of 13, when he rode the rails out to California. During the Great Depression, he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps, and while working his way back East, he became a featherweight Golden Gloves boxing champion.
Corey has always supported left-wing politics, and has appeared in support of Cuban children, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the American...
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