Carol Leifer: Gaudy, Bawdy & Blue (1992)

Actors

• Carol Leifer (writer)
• Renée Taylor (actress)
• Carol Leifer (producer)
• Carol Leifer (actress)
• Jerry Seinfeld (actor)
• Paul Reiser (actor)
• Phyllis Diller (actress)
• Julie Brown (actress)
• Shelley Berman (actor)
• Bud Cort (actor)
• Pat Corley (actor)
• Colin Quinn (actor)
• Edy Williams (actress)
• Mona May (costume designer)
• Ian Ogilvy (actor)

Genres

• Comedy

Berman, Shelley Filmography

• Sills
  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Geraldine Page: Stages of a Dream
  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• When Jews Were Funny
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Compass Cabaret 55
  2013, role: actor
• Looking for Lenny
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 25 Things You Didn't Know About Curb Your Enthusiasm
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Legend of Secret Pass
  2010, role: actor , character name: Ira
• Looking for Lenny
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Windy City Memories
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• You Don't Mess with the Zohan
  2008, role: actor , character name: Zohan's Father
• Chabad: To Life Telethon
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• History of the Joke
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Out of Order: Character Judges
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• It Ain't Over Til It's Over
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Lunch
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Out of Order: Character Judges
  2007, role: actor , character name: Judge Robert Sanders
• History of Curb Your Enthusiasm: So Far
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Chabad Telethon
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• History of Curb Your Enthusiasm: Even Further
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• History of Curb Your Enthusiasm: Even Further
  2006, role: actor , character name: Nat David
• The Holiday
  2006, role: actor , character name: Norman
• Disney Channel Holiday
  2005, role: actor , character name: Nobby Frostybump
• The Aristocrats
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Lizzie McGuire: Star Struck Vol. 3
  2004, role: actor , character name: Nobby Frostybump
• Meet the Fockers
  2004, role: actor , character name: Judge Ira
• Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself #66
• In God We Trust
  2000, role: actor , character name: Manny
• The Last Producer
  2000, role: actor , character name: Poker Player
• The Blues Brothers Animated Series
  1997, role: actor , character name: Alderman
• Carol Leifer: Gaudy, Bawdy & Blue
  1992, role: actor , character name: Shelley Berman
• Motorama
  1991, role: actor , character name: Million Dollar Driver
• Walter & Emily
  1991, role: actor , character name: Albert
• Elliot Fauman, Ph.D.
  1990, role: actor , character name: Stromberg
• What's Alan Watching?
  1989, role: actor , character name: Mel Krasoen
• Teen Witch
  1989, role: actor , character name: Mr. Weaver
• Rented Lips
  1988, role: actor , character name: Bill Slotnik
• More Laughing Room Only
  1986, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Second City 25th Anniversary Special
  1985, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Young at Heart Comedians
  1984, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Great Standups
  1984, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Brenda Starr, Reporter
  1979, role: actor , character name: A.J. Livwright
• Forever Fernwood
  1977, role: actor , character name: Mel Beach
• Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
  1976, role: actor , character name: Mel Beach
• Keep Off My Grass!
  1975, role: director
• Beware! The Blob
  1972, role: actor , character name: Hair Stylist
• Every Home Should Have One
  1970, role: actor , character name: Nat Kaplan
• Divorce American Style
  1967, role: actor , character name: David Grieff
• The Best Man
  1964, role: actor , character name: Sheldon Bascomb
• Dementia
  1955, role: actor , character name: Stoned Beatnik

Famous quotes by Shelley Berman:

"How do you tell how a man has been funny? How do you do the sound of his voice? The turn of his face? But I will tell you he was as funny as any man I've ever seen."

"When he was sitting with you, would he be witty? No,"

"If I asked for a (stage) light, it was not an ask but a demand. If I demanded, I was having a fit,"

"I was concerned about `who am I?' to the audience. So when they (the filmmakers) said, `We'll follow you,' I bit. I insisted on the right to approve the rough cut. So there I was, safe, everything fine,"

"one of the greatest humorists of the last half-century."

"It's great conversation. In the industry, it's great talk,"

"We were sitting watching television, had finished a nice dinner, everything was fine. Other people were in serious trouble. Then suddenly, we were moving,"

"suddenly, we were moving."

"Few, very few, will ever be able to craft a joke as beautifully as Pat. He was able to just make it all happen. I don't think he was great at telling them, but he was sure great at putting them down."

"If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst."

"The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us."

"Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge."

"As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy."

"Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside."

"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."

"As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian."

"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California."

"I quit smoking well over twenty years ago."

"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."

"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."