Zero Mostel Forgets to Eat
Nov. 9, 1963 - A funny thing happened to Zero Mostel the other day — he forgot to eat. This, plus the fact that he had been dieting...
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May 16, 2023
Comedian Lenny Bruce Convicted of Heroin Possession
May 16, 1963 - Comedian Lenny Bruce (pictured left with John Marshall, his attorney) was convicted by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury...
Apr 13, 2023
Lenny Bruce Expelled from Britain For Second Time This Week
Apr. 13, 1963 - Lenny Bruce, the American comedian, was ordered expelled from Britain today for the second time this week. Two...
Apr 9, 2023
Lenny Bruce Returns to New York, Detained by Authorities
Apr. 9, 1963 - Lenny Bruce arrived at New York’s Idlewild Airport after a transatlantic trip late yesterday. He was detained there for 75...
Apr 8, 2023
Lenny Bruce Barred from Britain
Apr. 8, 1963 - Lenny Bruce, the American nightclub comedian, was refused permission to enter Britain today when he arrived at London...
Mar 26, 2023
Comedian Lenny Bruce: “Rather Get Gas Chamber in L.A. than Jail in Chicago”
Mar. 26, 1963 - Lenny Bruce, the comedian, surrendered today in a Los Angeles court on a fugitive warrant issued in Chicago after his...
Mar 14, 2023
Comedian Lenny Bruce Sentenced to Prison
Mar. 14, 1963 - Lenny Bruce, 37-year-old comedian, was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison and fined $1,000 after being...
Feb 23, 2023
Comedian Lenny Bruce Arrested on Drug Charge
Feb. 23, 1963 - Comedian Lenny Bruce (left), 37, was arrested early today on suspicion of possessing heroin. The so-called “sick”...
Jan 29, 2023
Lenny Bruce Obscenity Underway in Chicago
Jan. 29, 1963 - Dan Sorkin, a disc jockey, and Nelson Algren, a novelist, were called as witnesses in a hearing today on revocation of...
Dec 19, 2022
Bob Hope to Entertain Troops Once Again
Dec. 19, 1962 - Bob Hope (pictured in Korea in 1950) and a troupe of Hollywood entertainers left this morning on Mr. Hope’s 11th...
Dec 19, 2022
Jackie Gleason Banters with New York Studio Audience
Dec. 19, 1962 - During the taping of Jackie Gleason’s weekly television shows, the entertainer enjoys bantering with the New York studio...
Dec 18, 2022
Movies: “It’s Only Money” with Jerry Lewis
Dec. 18, 1962 - Jerry Lewis’s newest comedy, “It’s Only Money,” produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, opens today. Lewis plays a...
Nov 20, 2022
Comedian Woody Allen On the Rise
Nov. 20, 1962 - A steadily rising comic in New York City is a slight, bespectacled, unhappy-looking man of 26 named Woody Allen...
Oct 5, 2022
Lenny Bruce Arrest on Drug Charge
Oct. 5, 1962 - Comedian Lenny Bruce (pictured) and Robert Coogan, brother of former child star Jackie Coogan, were arrested in North...
Sep 7, 2022
Lenny Bruce Banned in Sydney
Sept. 7, 1962 - Lenny Bruce (pictured), American comedian, opened at the Aarons Hotel last night in Sydney, Australia, and closed this...
Sep 3, 2022
Zero Mostel To Deliver Televised Lecture on Comedy
Sept. 3, 1962 - Zero Mostel, who lectured humorously on the art of comedy at Harvard University last May, has obtained a booking for his...
Aug 28, 2022
Burnett Signs Long-Term Contract with CBS
Aug. 28, 1962 - Carol Burnett (pictured with Rod Serling) has signed a long-term, exclusive TV contract with CBS. Hubbell Robinson,...
Aug 26, 2022
Burnett Declines Offer of Hour-Long Weekly Program
Aug. 26, 1962 - Carol Burnett (pictured with Richard Chamberlain), the comedienne who resigned from the Garry Moore show last season,...
Aug 14, 2022
TV: CBS’s “Calamity Jane” with Carol Burnett
Aug. 14, 1962 - Carol Burnett will star next season in a 90-minute musical comedy, “Calamity Jane,” on CBS-TV. No date has been set for...
Jul 8, 2022
Comic Troupe Satirizes Kennedy Administration
July 8, 1962 - While President Kennedy and his family relaxed on Squaw Island on Nantucket Sound, an improvisational troupe of actors...
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