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American comedian and thespian (1936–2014)

David Brenner
David Brenner 1976.jpg

Brenner in June 1976 on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Birth name David Norris Brenner
Born (1936-02-04)February four, 1936
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died March xv, 2014(2014-03-15) (aged 78)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Medium Stand-up, television
Alma mater Temple Academy
Genres Observational comedy, self-deprecation, topical comedy[1]
Spouse Elizabeth Slater
(m. 2000, div. 2001; 2 children, 1 stepson);
Ruth (m. 2014) [1]
Partner(s) Charisse Brody
(1980–1983, ane son);[2]
Tai Babilonia
(2002–2009)

David Norris Brenner (February 4, 1936 – March 15, 2014) was an American stand-up comedian, actor and author. The near frequent invitee on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the 1970s and 1980s, Brenner "was a pioneer of observational comedy."[3] His friend, comedian Richard Lewis, described Brenner equally "the king of hip, observational one-act."[4]

Early life [edit]

Brenner was born to Jewish parents in 1936[5] and raised in South and Due west Philadelphia.[one] His male parent, Louis, was a vaudeville comedian, vocaliser and dancer, performing under the stage proper noun of Lou Murphy, who gave upward his career and a pic contract to please Brenner's grandfather, a rabbi, who objected to his working on the Sabbath.[1] Once David became successful, he regularly sent his parents on cruises, and both of Brenner's parents would eventually die at advanced ages while on cruises aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, approximately two years autonomously.[6]

Subsequently loftier school, Brenner spent 2 years in the U.S. Ground forces, serving in the 101st Airborne and as a cryptographer of the 595th Signal Corps in Böblingen, Germany. Afterward being discharged, he attended Temple University, where he majored in mass advice and graduated with honors.[one]

Career [edit]

Brenner was a writer, manager or producer of 115 boob tube documentaries and headed the documentary units of Westinghouse Broadcasting and Metromedia, winning virtually thirty awards including an Emmy, earlier moving to one-act.[one] [seven] His get-go paid gig was at The Improv in June 1969, and following that he often performed at clubs in Greenwich Village.[1] Brenner was ranked No. 53 on Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand up-Ups of All Time. At one signal, he had appeared more than oft on major Tv set talk shows than any other entertainer.[viii] He also wrote v books,[9] and starred in four HBO Specials.[ten]

Books [edit]

Brenner released the one-act anthology Excuse Me, Are You lot Reading That Paper? on MCA Records in 1983 (The championship arose from a gag wherein a boyfriend passenger on a subway asked Brenner if he was reading a newspaper on which he was sitting. Brenner stood up, turned the page, sat downwardly and said, "Well, yep I am.") Brenner likewise penned five books[1] including Soft Pretzels With Mustard (1983), Revenge is the Best Practice (1984), Nobody Ever Sees You Eat Tuna Fish (1986), If God Wanted Us to Travel... (1990), and I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup: How to Survive Personal and World Problems with Laughter—Seriously (2003), which was also released as an audiobook.

Television [edit]

After making his national boob tube debut in 1971, on The This evening Show Starring Johnny Carson, he became the show's nearly frequent guest, with 158 appearances. He guest-hosted for Johnny Carson 75 times between 1975 and 1984, placing him 5th on the listing of Carson's most frequent invitee hosts.

Brenner was the star of the 1976 Goggle box series Snip, which was inspired past the film Shampoo and set in a hair dressing salon.[1] The situation one-act was cancelled by NBC before it aired, because of nervousness about a supporting character who would accept been one of the kickoff gay characters in an American state of affairs comedy. Years later on, Brenner said, "They made upwards all kinds of excuses, but the reason Snip was pulled is nosotros had an actor who was gay and who played a gay function. They were agape to have a gay on television."[11]

In 1986, King World Entertainment gave Brenner his own 30-infinitesimal syndicated late-night talk show, Nightlife, in an attempt to compete with Carson, simply it was cancelled after ane season. The show premiered September eight, 1986, on 102 stations[12] and was touted as "alternative".[13] Filmed in Manhattan and featuring a casually dressed Brenner,[13] it was unique amongst the late nighttime talk genre for not having a monologue.[13] Information technology gave some comedians, such as Bobby Slayton, their national television premieres.[14]

In addition to the This evening Show, Brenner also appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The David Frost Show, The Mike Douglas Show, Tardily Dark with David Letterman and the Late Show With David Letterman, Real Time With Pecker Maher and The Daily Bear witness and was a frequent invitee on The Howard Stern Show.[i] In later years he appeared on both MSNBC and Play tricks News Channel shows commenting on current events.[15]

Moving picture [edit]

He portrayed a charity brawl auctioneer in the 1989 romantic one-act Worth Winning (with Mark Harmon, Madeleine Stowe, and Lesley Ann Warren, who was also Brenner's co-star on Snip).[ane]

Radio [edit]

From 1994 to 1996, Brenner hosted a talk-radio program, taking over the timeslot of the long-running Larry King Evidence on the Mutual Dissemination Arrangement.[16] [17] He had earlier hosted a syndicated weekly radio show, David Brenner Live, for 3 months in 1985.[xviii] [19] The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia named Brenner their Person of the Yr in 1984 and inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2003.[20]

Personal life [edit]

Brenner had three children—Cole, Slade and Wyatt.[21] He and the female parent of Cole, his first son, fought a custody battle for several years. Brenner finally won child custody in 1992. Because family unit courts would accept regarded him every bit an absentee male parent if he were abroad from home more than 50 nights a year, Brenner substantially reduced the number of appearances in his stand-upwardly comedy work, including performances on the This evening Show, in society to secure and maintain custody of his son.[1] [15] Brenner married Elizabeth Slater of New York, the mother of his sons Slade and Wyatt, in the endmost minutes of his David Brenner: Back with a Vengeance! HBO Special recorded in Las Vegas, on Feb 19, 2000. They divorced a trivial over a year later and also then fought ii custody battles, both of which Brenner won. Brenner was engaged to Tai Babilonia in 2005, but they never married.[1] [15] For a while in the 2000s, Brenner lived in Las Vegas.[fourteen]

Death [edit]

Brenner died on March 15, 2014, at age 78 from pancreatic cancer at his Manhattan domicile.[22] [23] [24]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d due east f chiliad h i j k l yard "Comedian David Brenner Dies at 78". The Hollywood Reporter. March 15, 2014. Retrieved March xvi, 2014.
  2. ^ Samuel, Maull (October 9, 1991). "Comedian David Brenner'due south Missing Son Shows Up with Mom". Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  3. ^ Bort, Ryan (March 17, 2014). "David Brenner: 1936-2014". Paste.
  4. ^ "Comedian David Brenner expressionless at 78". Chicago Tribune. March 15, 2014. Retrieved March xvi, 2014.
  5. ^ Happy altogether Brenner! Howard Stern
  6. ^ "Interview with David Brenner: "Always Leave 'Em Laughing"". Reel Change Films. June 29, 2012. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  7. ^ "The Brenner Bookkeeping Blog". Archived from the original on March 16, 2014.
  8. ^ The Book of Lists #2 p. 203.
  9. ^ "Amazon.com: David Brenner: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". Retrieved Feb 5, 2016.
  10. ^ "David Brenner Dies of Cancer at 78". People. Associated Printing.
  11. ^ Elber, Lynn (February xviii, 2000). "Comedian David Brenner is 'Back With a Vengeance'". Eugene Annals-Guard . Retrieved August 11, 2021.
  12. ^ Winfrey, Lee (November 29, 1986). "And the latenight winner is..." Pittsburgh Press . Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  13. ^ a b c Hill, Michael Eastward. (August 29, 1986). "Brenner Waking Up 'Nightlife' With Own Belatedly Show". The News-Periodical. Daytona Embankment. Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service.
  14. ^ a b Nordyke, Kimberly (March xv, 2014). "David Brenner Dead: Comedian Bobby Slayton Remembers His Friend". The Hollywood Reporter.
  15. ^ a b c "Comedian David Brenner, 'This night' favorite, dies". Associated Press. March 15, 2014. Retrieved March sixteen, 2014.
  16. ^ Puig, Claudia (June 24, 1994). "Today'south Talk-Radio Topic: The Future of Talk Radio". Los Angeles Times.
  17. ^ "David Brenner Dies; Top Comedian Hosted Radio Show In '90s". All Access. March 17, 2014.
  18. ^ "Radio: Featured Programming". Billboard. Baronial 31, 1985. Retrieved March half-dozen, 2018.
  19. ^ "David Brenner show on radio is dropped". The Day. New London, Connecticut. Knight-Ridder News Agency. November ii, 1985. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  20. ^ "Person of the Yr Recipients: David Brenner". Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia . Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  21. ^ David Brenner: Dorsum with a Vengeance!, 2000, HBO.
  22. ^ "'Tonight Testify' Legend David Brenner -- On Death Bed". TMZ.
  23. ^ Clarke, Norm. "Comedy Legend David Brenner Dead At 78". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Archived from the original on March 16, 2014.
  24. ^ Webber, Stephanie (March 15, 2014). "David Brenner, Comedian and Player, Dies at the Age of 78". Us Weekly . Retrieved March 16, 2014.

External links [edit]

  • David Brenner at IMDb
  • David Brenner on VisitPA.com sharing what he likes to do in Philly
  • David Brenner at the Comedy Hall of Fame
  • Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia website
  • NYTimes obit.
  • David Brenner on comedy then and now interview on YouTube

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