Television
Irving and Mel Casson were regular performers on the ABC television series Draw Me a Laugh (1949), produced by Casson. The show was hosted by Patricia Bright and Walter Hurley. Guest cartoonists included Gus Edson. Viewers sent in ideas which were drawn by the cartoonists while members of the studio audience constructed the gag lines. Folk singer Oscar Brand then vocalized the "singing captions".
Irving was 69 when he died of a heart attack in his New York apartment at 650 West End Avenue. His wife Dorothy survived him by less than a year. He was also survived by his son, the novelist Clifford Irving; a brother, John F. Norman; and two sisters, Mrs. Bebe Hamilburg and Mrs. Milton N. Rosenthal.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“Addison DeWitt: Your next move, it seems to me, should be toward television.
Miss Caswell: Tell me this. Do they have auditions for television?
Addison DeWitt: That’s all television is, my dear. Nothing but auditions.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)
“So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)