Marty Brill (comedian)
Marty Brill (born May 6, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American comedian.
Brill was a comedian/writer/actor/musician who appeared regularly on 1960s and 1970s TV in both variety shows (The Ed Sullivan Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show) and sitcoms (The New Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show). In the late 1970s, Marty Brill did some writing in the 1970s for the "New Soupy Sales Show," also occasionally playing characters on the show, especially after Soup'y longtime sidekick (Clyde Adler) took ill during production of the series. He also was the lyricist for the short lived 1964 Broadway musical Cafe Crown.
Brill voiced King Koo Koo in the 1970's film Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure and sang one of the film's songs.
Discography
- The Roving Balladeer'
- "Timber"[1]
He was involved with a comedy album called "The Other Family". This was a take-off on "The First Family" but about the Khrushchevs in the Kremlin.
References
- ↑ Billboard – August 18, 1956 p.65 "Timber 72 Brill gives a dramatic reading to this folkish ode."
External links
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