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Roger Price (comedian)

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Roger Price (March 6, 1918 – October 31, 1990) was an American humorist, author and publisher, who created Droodles in the 1950s, followed by his collaborations with Leonard Stern on the Mad Libs series. [1]

53 relations: Amateur press association, At Long Last Love, Ballantine Books, Billy Jack Goes to Washington, Carl Reiner, Catchphrase, Charleston, West Virginia, Christopher Cerf (musician and television producer), Daniel Quinn, Denise Lor, Derek Robinson (novelist), Droodles, Eric Frank Russell, Frank Zappa, Harvey Kurtzman, Help! (magazine), Humorist, I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?, Isaac Asimov, Jean Shepherd, Just You and Me, Kid, Larry Sloan, Lee Hoffman, Leonard B. Stern, Lyle Stuart, Mad (magazine), Mad Libs, Mame (film), Marc Connelly, Mind your own business, Mixed Company, NBC, New Faces of 1952, Pete's Dragon (1977 film), Price Stern Sloan, Robert Michael Pyle, Science fiction fandom, Science-fiction fanzine, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, Simon & Schuster, Sitcom, Stanley Ralph Ross, Studio City, Los Angeles, The Cat from Outer Space, The Day of the Locust (film), The Devil and Max Devlin, The Kallikaks, The Name's the Same, The Pepsodent Show, The Strongest Man in the World, ..., Tickets, Please!, United States, What's My Line?. Expand index (3 more) »

Amateur press association

An amateur press association (APA) is a group of people who produce individual pages or magazines that are sent to a Central Mailer for collation and distribution to all members of the group.

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At Long Last Love

At Long Last Love is a 1975 American musical romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and stars Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd.

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Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine.

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Billy Jack Goes to Washington

Billy Jack Goes to Washington is a 1977 film starring Tom Laughlin, the fourth film in the Billy Jack series, and although the earlier films saw enormous success, this film did not.

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Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922)St.

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Catchphrase

A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance.

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Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston is the most populous city in, and the capital of, the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Christopher Cerf (musician and television producer)

Christopher Cerf (born August 19, 1941) is an American author, composer-lyricist, voice actor, and record and television producer.

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Daniel Quinn

Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 – February 17, 2018) was an American author (primarily, novelist and fabulist), cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year.

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Denise Lor

Denise Lor (May 3, 1929 – September 27, 2015) was an American popular singer and actress.

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Derek Robinson (novelist)

Derek Robinson (born 12 April 1932) is a British author best known for his military aviation novels full of black humour.

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Droodles

Droodles was a syndicated cartoon feature created by Roger Price and collected in his 1953 book Droodles, though the term is now used more generally of similar visual riddles.

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Eric Frank Russell

Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Harvey Kurtzman

Harvey Kurtzman (October 3, 1924 – February 21, 1993) was an American cartoonist and editor.

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Help! (magazine)

Help! is an American satire magazine that was published by James Warren from 1960 to 1965.

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Humorist

A humorist (British English: humourist) is an intellectual who uses humor in writing or public speaking.

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I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?

I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (original USA theatrical name Kill My Wife, Please) is a 1975 black comedy movie directed by Steven Hilliard Stern, and starring Bob Dishy and Joanna Barnes.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Jean Shepherd

Jean Parker Shepherd, Jr. (July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999) was an American storyteller, radio and TV personality, writer and actor.

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Just You and Me, Kid

Just You and Me, Kid is a 1979 comedy film starring George Burns, Brooke Shields, Lorraine Gary, Ray Bolger, Leon Ames, Carl Ballantine, Keye Luke and Burl Ives.

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Larry Sloan

Lloyd Lawrence "Larry" Sloan (1922 – October 14, 2012) was an American publisher of Mad Libs and co-founder of the Los Angeles publishing company, Price Stern Sloan, which opened in the early 1960s.

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Lee Hoffman

Lee Hoffman, born Shirley Bell Hoffman, (August 14, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois – February 6, 2007 in Port Charlotte, Florida) was an American science fiction fan, an editor of early folk music fanzines, and an author of science fiction, Western and romance novels.

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Leonard B. Stern

Leonard Bernard Stern (December 23, 1923 – June 7, 2011) credited as Leonard B. Stern, was an American screenwriter, film and television producer, director, and one of the creators, with Roger Price, of the classic word game Mad Libs.

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Lyle Stuart

Lyle Stuart (August 11, 1922 – June 24, 2006) was an American author and independent publisher of controversial books.

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Mad (magazine)

Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine.

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Mad Libs

Mad Libs is a phrasal template word game where one player prompts others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story, before reading the – often comical or nonsensical – story aloud.

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Mame (film)

Mame is a 1974 Technicolor musical film in Panavision based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name (itself based on the 1958 film Auntie Mame) and the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis.

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Marc Connelly

Marcus Cook Connelly (13 December 1890 – 21 December 1980) was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist.

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Mind your own business

"Mind your own business" is a common English saying which asks for a respect of other people's privacy.

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Mixed Company

Mixed Company is a 1974 comedy-drama film directed by Melville Shavelson and written by Shavelson and Mort Lachman.

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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 Faces of 1952

New Faces of 1952 is a musical revue with songs and comedy skits.

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Pete's Dragon (1977 film)

Pete's Dragon is a 1977 American live-action/animated musical fantasy comedy film directed by Don Chaffey, produced by Jerome Courtland and Ron Miller, and written by Malcolm Marmorstein.

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Price Stern Sloan

Price Stern Sloan (originally known as Price/Stern/Sloan) or PSS! is a publisher (now an imprint of the Penguin Group) that was founded in Los Angeles in the early 1960s to publish the Mad Libs that Roger Price and Leonard Stern had concocted during their stint as writers for Tonight Starring Steve Allen and also the Droodles.

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Robert Michael Pyle

Robert Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist, writer, teacher, and founder of the Xerces Society.

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Science fiction fandom

Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or fandom of people interested in science fiction in contact with one another based upon that interest.

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Science-fiction fanzine

A science-fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science-fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day.

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Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch

Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch is an album by Frank Zappa, released in May 1982 and digitally remastered in 1991.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Stanley Ralph Ross

Stanley Ralph Ross (July 22, 1935 – March 16, 2000) was a writer and actor.

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Studio City, Los Angeles

Studio City is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley.

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The Cat from Outer Space

The Cat from Outer Space is a 1978 American science fiction comedy film starring Ronnie Schell, Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall and McLean Stevenson.

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The Day of the Locust (film)

The Day of the Locust is a 1975 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, and starring William Atherton, Karen Black, Donald Sutherland, and Geraldine Page.

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The Devil and Max Devlin

The Devil and Max Devlin is a 1981 American fantasy-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions, directed by Steven Hilliard Stern and starring Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby and Susan Anspach.

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The Kallikaks

The Kallikaks is an American sitcom television series starring David Huddleston which centers around a family from Appalachia that moves to California to run a decrepit gasoline station.

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The Name's the Same

The Name's the Same is an American game show that was produced by Goodson-Todman for the ABC television network from December 5, 1951, to August 31, 1954, followed by a run from October 25, 1954, to October 7, 1955.

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The Pepsodent Show

The Pepsodent Show is an American radio comedy program broadcast during the Golden Age of Radio.

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The Strongest Man in the World

The Strongest Man in the World is a 1975 Disney film directed by Vincent McEveety and starring Kurt Russell, still a student in the fictional Medfield College.

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Tickets, Please!

Tickets, Please! is a musical revue.

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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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What's My Line?

What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Price_(comedian)

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