Early Life
Storch was born in New York City, a son of Alfred Storch, a realtor, and his wife Sally (Kupperman) Storch, a telephone operator. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx with Don Adams, who remained his lifelong friend. He never graduated from high school because of tough times in the Great Depression, and found work as a stand-up comic for $12 per week opening for bandleader Al Donahue at the band shell in Sheepshead Bay. He went on to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II on the submarine tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis.
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