For the Canadian World War I flying ace, see Irving Corey.
Irwin Corey
Corey in a 1963 television appearance
Born
(1914-07-29)July 29, 1914 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died
February 6, 2017(2017-02-06) (aged 102) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Years active
1938–2013
Genres
Wit/Word play, improvisational and character comedy, satire
Spouse
Fran Corey
(m. 1941; died 2011)
Children
2
"Professor" Irwin Corey (July 29, 1914 – February 6, 2017) was an American stand-up comic, film actor and activist, often billed as "The World's Foremost Authority". He introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at the San Francisco club the hungry i. Lenny Bruce described Corey as "one of the most brilliant comedians of all time."[1]
^Bruce, Lenny (1984). Bruce, Kitty (ed.). The Almost Unpublished Lenny Bruce: From the Private Collection of Kitty Bruce. Running Press. p. 10. ISBN 0894712594.
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drum performance at tribute concert". NME. Retrieved February 13, 2023. Irwin, Corey (March 28, 2022). "Taylor Hawkins classic rock influences: In his own...
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