ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
A writer for Danny Thomas, Jack Paar, Bob Hope and other comedians who worked with Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and Carl Reiner on on Caesar's Hour, the follow-up to Your Show of Shows. He also wrote for Broadway (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and wrote screenplays, including Oh, God! and Blame It on Rio. He co-wrote the screenplay for Tootsie and was the main writer for the television series M*A*S*H (adapted from the Robert Altman film of the same name.) This is the first part of an 8 part interview with Gelbart where he discusses his comedy writing career.
[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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