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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