Alan King RIP

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― jazz odysseus (jazz odysseus), Sunday, 9 May 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 9 May 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It's sorta weird, I actually know his work best from just one random role, the manager or agent or whoever for Al Pacino's character in Author! Author!, which for whatever reason I was totally obsessed with when I was younger, early eighties. Saw it tons of times, and it was only later that I realized both King and Bob and Ray, who have a briefer but still pretty good part in the film, all had this history to them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

He was really excellent in Casino, which is all that I really know him from.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny, I was just watching a Judy Garland documentary he contributed to.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

RIP.
I just read a book called The Haunted Smile, which is the history of Jewish comedians in America (and therefore pretty much the history of comedy in American, minus Richord Pryor, Buster Keaton, and, uh, Ellen DeGeneres?) and when his name came up (mainly because he was a sharp dresser), I thought, he seems like a really interesting guy, but I've almost only ever seen him in documentary footage, talking about other people.
I made a note to at the very least look him up on imdb, but as of yet, haven't.

― Huck, Monday, 10 May 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys didn't get "Inside the Comedy Mind" up there?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

nope. what's that? or, there's also a good possiblity I just plain old missed it.

― Huck, Monday, 10 May 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, it was this old series on Comedy Central (or whatever it was at that point) that Alan King hosted, interviewing stand-up comedians. A sort of "Inside The Actor's Studio" for the stand-up set.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

As parodied a few times on MST3K:

"Inside the Comic Mind with Fu Manchu."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, didn't miss it. We don't get Comedy Central here, because it would compete against the mostly abhorrent Comedy Network. Maybe one of these days I'll have to venture south to watch some of this quality american programming I keep hearing about on the CBC.

― Huck, Monday, 10 May 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Alan King is a great old school comedian. Being the fucked up person I am, I loved him when I was kid. He would have comedy specials every once in a while on one of the networks and I would always beg my mom to stay up to watch them. Completely classic.

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

some AK quips has got up:

“As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.”

“If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.”

“Banks have a new image. Now you have a friend, your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?”

“Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.”

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 May 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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