Shecky Greene

Shecky Greene (1926-2023) was a stand-up comedian whose over six-decade career was primarily tied to nightclub work, particularly in Las Vegas, although he was a familiar TV presence as well. While Greene's actual stage act was wild and uninhibited, he became associated with the Borscht Belt style of comedy to the extent that his first name became a pop culture synonym for any stand-up act of that kind.
Apart from his long club career, Greene was a frequent TV guest on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and especially The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (over sixty appearances, many as guest host), plus one-time visits to The Carol Burnett Show and The A-Team. Occasional acting credits, not as himself, included Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Mad About You, Roseanne, and Laverne & Shirley, as well as the films Splash and History of the World, Part 1.
==References==
* In the 1981 album Grin & Giggle with Big Bird, Oscar searches for a joke book given to him by his uncle Shecky Grouch.
* The script for Muppet Treasure Island names the island head in the credits scene, who performs "a nightmarishly bad stand-up comedy routine" for Long John Silver, as Shecky the Tiki.Scan of 1995 script draft.
* A penguin performer in a Big Bird and Snuffy bumper is named Shecky.
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*Profile by Kliph Nesteroff
*IMDB
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