Monday, April 15, 2013

Passage: Annette Funicello and Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters, the rubber-faced comedian whose unscripted flights of fancy inspired a generation of improvisational comics, and who kept television audiences in stitches with Main Street characters like Maude Frickert, a sweet-seeming grandmother

Jonathan Winters, who died Friday at 87, was a beloved comic whirlwind for generations, one whose influence on movie comics from Robin Williams to Jim Carrey to Sacha Baron Cohen is very apparent.

Jonathan Winters died Thursday night of undisclosed causes. A genius of comic improvisation, Winters made no bones about the source of his gift: "You gotta admit that I am strange," Winters told CBS' "West 57th." "And you know what? I'm proud of it. I

You can call anyone but Einstein a genius and start an argument. Well, maybe Einstein or Jonathan Winters. The comedian, who died Friday at the age of 87, was immediately hailed by Steve Martin, Robin Williams and others as a genius. He made hit

Bill Cosby was once asked whom he would choose if he had $50 in his pocket to buy a ticket to see only one stand-up comedian, live, in their prime. The comic legend barely took a breath before answering, "Jonathan Winters

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Passage: Annette Funicello and Jonathan Winters

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