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Brother Theodore

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Brother Theodore (born Theodore Gottlieb; November 11, 1906 – April 5, 2001) was a German-born American monologuist and comedian known for rambling, stream-of-consciousness dialogues which he called "stand-up tragedy". [1]

85 relations: Albert Einstein, Austria, B movie, Beyond Vaudeville, Billy Crystal, Boris Karloff, Chess, Dachau concentration camp, Düsseldorf, Dick Brooks (magician), Dick Cavett, Disinformation (TV series), Dorothy Dietrich, East Village, Manhattan, Edgar Allan Poe, Eric Bogosian, German Empire, Germany, Gollum, Greenwich Village, Hawthorne, New York, Henry Gibson, Hustling, Jews, Joe Dante, Joe Frank, Joey Bishop, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, KCRW, Late Night with David Letterman, Lower East Side, Magic Towne House, Manhattan, Mark Shulman (author), Massage Parlor Murders!, Mockumentary, Monologue, Museum of Modern Art, Nazism, NBC, New York (state), New York City, New York Post, Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula, NPR, Orson Welles, Penn & Teller, Pneumonia, Red Skelton, Reichsmark, ..., Rhine Province, Salvador Dalí, San Francisco, So Dark the Night, Society of American Magicians, Stanford University, Switzerland, That's Adequate, The 'Burbs, The Dick Cavett Show, The Hobbit (1977 film), The House by the Cemetery, The Invisible Kid, The Last Unicorn (film), The Lone Wolf in Mexico, The Merv Griffin Show, The New York Times, The Nose (Gogol short story), The Return of the King (1980 film), The Stranger (1946 film), The Third Man, The Tomorrow Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Village Voice, Theatre Communications Group, Time (magazine), Tom Schiller, Tom Snyder, United States, University of Cologne, Upper East Side, Vaslav Nijinsky, WBAI, Weekend Edition, Woody Allen. Expand index (35 more) »

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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Beyond Vaudeville

Beyond Vaudeville was a New York City public-access television show that ran from 1986 to 1996.

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Billy Crystal

William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948)On page 17 of his book 700 Sundays, Crystal displays his birth announcement, which gives his first two names as "William Edward", not "William Jacob" is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and television host.

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Boris Karloff

William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor who was primarily known for his roles in horror films.

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Dachau concentration camp

Dachau concentration camp (Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau) was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners.

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Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf (Low Franconian, Ripuarian: Düsseldörp), often Dusseldorf in English sources, is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the seventh most populous city in Germany. Düsseldorf is an international business and financial centre, renowned for its fashion and trade fairs.

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Dick Brooks (magician)

Dick Brooks is considered a magician of renown by Focus Magazine.

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Dick Cavett

Richard Alva Cavett (born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality, comedian and former talk show host notable for his conversational style and in-depth discussions.

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Disinformation (TV series)

Disinformation, also known as Disinfo Nation, was a television show hosted by Richard Metzger.

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Dorothy Dietrich

Dorothy Dietrich (born October 31, 1969) is an American stage magician and escapologist, best known as the first and only woman to have performed the bullet catch in her mouth, and the first woman to perform a straitjacket escape while suspended hundreds of feet in the air from a burning rope.

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East Village, Manhattan

East Village is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist, and historian.

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German Empire

The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gollum

Gollum is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Hawthorne, New York

Hawthorne is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County, New York.

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Henry Gibson

Henry Gibson (September 21, 1935 – September 14, 2009), born James Bateman, was an American actor, singer, and songwriter.

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Hustling

Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Joe Dante

Joseph James Dante Jr. (born November 28, 1946) is an American film director, producer, editor and actor.

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Joe Frank

Joe Frank (August 19, 1938 – January 15, 2018) was a French-born American radio personality and humorist known best for his often philosophical, humorous, surrealist, and sometimes absurd monologues and radio dramas.

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Joey Bishop

Joseph Abraham Gottlieb (February 3, 1918 – October 17, 2007), known professionally as Joey Bishop, was an American entertainer who appeared on television as early as 1948 and eventually starred in his own weekly comedy series playing a talk show host, then later hosted a late night talk show with Regis Philbin as his young sidekick on ABC.

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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer is a weekly comic strip written and drawn by Ben Katchor since 1988.

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KCRW

KCRW (89.9 MHz FM) is a National Public Radio member station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, where the station is licensed.

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Late Night with David Letterman

Late Night with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman.

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Lower East Side

The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan, roughly located between the Bowery and the East River, and Canal Street and Houston Street.

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Magic Towne House

The Magic Towne House was a well-known magic show spot on three floors at 1026 Third Avenue, north of 60th Street, New York City, in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Mark Shulman (author)

Mark Shulman was born April 1, 1962 in Rochester, New York.

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Massage Parlor Murders!

Massage Parlor Murders! (also known as The Seven Deadly Sins and Massage Parlor Hookers!) is a 1973 exploitation crime-horror film directed by Chester Fox and Alex Stevens.

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Mockumentary

A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) or docucomedy is a type of movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.

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Monologue

In theatre, a monologue (from μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Post

The New York Post is the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States and a leading digital media publisher that reached more than 57 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January 2017.

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Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula

Nocturna (more commonly referred to by its promotional title Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula) is a 1979 film conceived by star Nai Bonet and written and directed by Harry Hurwitz, who was credited as "Harry Tampa." This was the fourth and final time John Carradine played Count Dracula; he had also played him in House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula and Billy the Kid vs. Dracula.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Penn & Teller

Penn & Teller (Penn Jillette and Teller) are American magicians and entertainers who have performed together since the late 1970s, noted for their ongoing act which combines elements of comedy with magic.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Red Skelton

Richard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913September 17, 1997) was an American comedy entertainer.

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Reichsmark

The Reichsmark (sign: ℛℳ) was the currency in Germany from 1924 until 20 June 1948 in West Germany, where it was replaced with the Deutsche Mark, and until 23 June in East Germany when it was replaced by the East German mark.

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Rhine Province

The Rhine Province (Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia (Rheinpreußen) or synonymous with the Rhineland (Rheinland), was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, from 1822 to 1946.

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquess of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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So Dark the Night

So Dark the Night is a 1946 American crime film in the film noir tradition, directed by Joseph H. Lewis and written by Dwight V. Babcock, Martin Berkeley.

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Society of American Magicians

The Society of American Magicians (S.A.M.) is the oldest fraternal magic organization in the world.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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That's Adequate

That's Adequate is a 1989 mockumentary documenting a fictional Hollywood studio, Adequate Film Studios.

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The 'Burbs

The 'Burbs is a 1989 American comedy thriller film directed by Joe Dante, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman, Wendy Schaal and Henry Gibson, and co-starring Gale Gordon.

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The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show was the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks, including.

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The Hobbit (1977 film)

The Hobbit is a 1977 American animated musical television special created by Rankin/Bass, a studio known for their holiday specials, and animated by Topcraft, a precursor to Studio Ghibli, using lyrics adapted from the book.

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The House by the Cemetery

The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) is a 1981 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci.

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The Invisible Kid

The Invisible Kid is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Avery Crounse.

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The Last Unicorn (film)

The Last Unicorn is a 1982 animated fantasy film about a unicorn who, upon learning that she is the last of her species in the world, goes on a quest to find out what has happened to the others of her kind.

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The Lone Wolf in Mexico

The Lone Wolf in Mexico is a 1947 black-and-white mystery-adventure film directed by D. Ross Lederman for Columbia Pictures.

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The Merv Griffin Show

The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show starring Merv Griffin.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Nose (Gogol short story)

"The Nose" (Russian: Нос Nos) is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St.

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The Return of the King (1980 film)

The Return of the King (also known as The Return of the King: A Story of the Hobbits), is a 1980 animated musical television film created by Rankin/Bass and Topcraft.

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The Stranger (1946 film)

The Stranger is a 1946 American film noir starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Orson Welles.

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The Third Man

The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene.

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The Tomorrow Show

The Tomorrow Show (also known as Tomorrow and, after 1980, Tomorrow Coast to Coast) is an American late-night television talk show hosted by Tom Snyder.

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from October 1, 1962 through May 22, 1992.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Theatre Communications Group

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is a non-profit service organization headquartered in New York City that promotes professional non-profit theatre in the United States.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tom Schiller

Tom Schiller is an American writer best known for his eleven-year stint writing and directing short films for Saturday Night Live (following the show's original short film makers Albert Brooks and Gary Weis).

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Tom Snyder

Thomas James Snyder (May 12, 1936 – July 29, 2007) was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Cologne

The University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany.

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Upper East Side

The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park/Fifth Avenue, 59th Street, the East River, and 96th Street.

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Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky (also Vatslav; Ва́цлав Фоми́ч Нижи́нский;; Wacław Niżyński; 12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century.

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WBAI

WBAI (99.5 MHz), is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station licensed to New York City.

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Weekend Edition

Weekend Edition is a set of American radio news magazine programs produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR).

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Woody Allen

Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, and musician whose career spans more than six decades.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Theodore

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