Irwin Corey

Professor Irwin Corey is an American comic, film actor and activist, often billed as The Worlds Foremost Authority. He introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of standup comedy at the wellknown San Francisco club, the hungry i. Lenny Bruce once described Corey as one of the most brilliant comedians of all time.

Corey was born in 1914 in Brooklyn, New York. Povertystricken after his father deserted them, his mother was forced to place him and his five siblings in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, where Corey remained until his early teens, when he rode in boxcars out to California, and enrolled himself at Belmont High School in Los Angeles. During the Great Depression he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps and, while working his way back East, became a featherweight Golden Gloves boxing champion.

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