However… the world’s foremost authority is now dead

Professor ‘However’ Irwin Corey made a career out of burlesquing the pompous authority of academia, and he had the inane American university professor routine down pat. See Who Am the World’s Foremost Authority? A Lesson from Professor Irwin Corey for more info about this commie ‘professor’. However… next to nobody younger than 50 has probably heard of the guy, I will miss him. He was funny in a funny world, however he is now dead.

Wise sayings of The Professor…

‘If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.’
Professor Irwin Corey

‘Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.’
Professor Irwin Corey

Professor Irwin Corey on youtube. The New York Times A Life in Comedy and a hipper-hopper version of The Professor as ‘Sammy Fine’

Theater critic Kenneth Tynan said of the Professor, “Corey is a cultural clown, a parody of literacy, a travesty of all that our civilization holds dear and one of the funniest grotesques in America. He is Chaplin’s clown with a college education.”

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