Jonathan Winters

born on 11/11/1925 in Dayton, OH, United States

died on 11/4/2013 in Montecito, CA, United States

Jonathan Winters

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Jonathan Winters
Winters in the 1960s
Birth name Jonathan Harshman Winters III
Born November 11 1925
Bellbrook, Ohio, U.S.
Died April 11 2013 (aged 87)
Montecito, California
Medium Stage, film, television, painting, literature
Years active 1949-2013
Genres Character comedy, improvisational comedy
Influences James Thurber
Spouse Eileen Schauder (1948-2009; her death)

Jonathan Harshman Winters III (November 11, 1925 April 11, 2013) was an American comedian, actor, author, and artist. Beginning in 1960, Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label. He also had records released every decade for over 50 years, receiving 11 nominations for Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album during his career and winning a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for his contribution to an adaptation of The Little Prince in 1975 and the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for Crank(y) Calls in 1996.

With a career spanning more than six decades, Winters also appeared in hundreds of television show episodes/series and films combined, including eccentric characters on The Steve Allen Show, The Garry Moore Show, The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters (197274), Mork & Mindy, Hee Haw, and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. He also voiced Grandpa Smurf on The Smurfs (198689) and Papa Smurf in The Smurfs (2011). Winters final feature film was The Smurfs 2 in 2013, which is dedicated to his memory.

In 1991, Winters earned an Emmy Award for his supporting role in Davis Rules. In 1999, Winters was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2002, he earned an Emmy nomination as a guest star in a comedy series for Life with Bonnie. In 2008, Winters was presented with a Pioneer TV Land Award by Robin Williams.

Winters also spent time painting and presenting his artwork, including silkscreens and sketches, in many gallery shows. Additionally, he authored several books. His book of short stories, titled Winters' Tales (1988), made the bestseller lists.[1]

Early life

Winters was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, to Alice Kilgore Rodgers, who later became a radio personality, and her husband Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an insurance agent who later became an investment broker.[2][3] He was a descendant of Valentine Winters, founder of the Winters National Bank in Dayton, Ohio (now part of JPMorgan Chase). Of English and ScotchIrish ancestry,[4] Winters had described his father as an alcoholic who had trouble holding a job. His grandfather, a frustrated comedian, owned the Winters National Bank, which failed, as the familys fortunes collapsed during the Great Depression.

When he was seven, his parents separated. Winters mother, in whom he found a comedic mentor,[5] took him to Springfield, Ohio, to live with his maternal grandmother.[6] Mother and dad didn't understand me; I didn't understand them, Winters told Jim Lehrer on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer in 1999. So consequently it was a strange kind of arrangement. Alone in his room, he would create characters and interview himself. A poor student, Winters continued talking to himself and developed a repertoire of strange sound effects. He often entertained his high-school friends by imitating a race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.[7]

During his senior year at Springfield High School, Winters quit school to join the U.S. Marine Corps and served two and a half years in the Pacific Theater during World War II.[3][8][9] Upon his return, he attended Kenyon College. He later studied cartooning at Dayton Art Institute, where he met Eileen Schauder, whom he married on September 11, 1948. He was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Lambda chapter).

Early career

Winterss career started as a result of a lost wristwatch, about six or seven months after his marriage to Eileen in 1948. The newlyweds couldnt afford to buy another one. Then Eileen read about a talent contest in which the first prize was a wristwatch, and encouraged Jonathan to go down and win it. She was certain he could, and he did.[3][10] His performance led to a disc jockey job, where he was supposed to introduce songs and announce the temperature.[3] Gradually his ad libs, personae, and antics took over the show.[11]

He began comedy routines and acting while studying at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He was also a local radio personality on WING (mornings, 6 to 8) in Dayton, Ohio, and at WIZE in Springfield, Ohio. He performed as Johnny Winters on WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio, for two and a half years, quitting the station in 1953 when they refused to give him a $5 raise.

After promising his wife that he would return to Dayton if he did not make it in a year, and with $56.46 in his pocket, he moved to New York City, staying with friends in Greenwich Village. After obtaining Martin Goodman as his agent, he began stand-up routines in various New York nightclubs. His earliest television appearance was in 1954 on Chance of a Lifetime hosted by Dennis James on the DuMont Television Network, where Winters again appeared as Johnny Winters.

Winters had made television history in 1956, when RCA broadcast the first public demonstration of color videotape on The Jonathan Winters Show. Author David Hajdu wrote in The New York Times (2006), He soon used video technology to appear as two characters, bantering back and forth, seemingly in the studio at the same time. You could say he invented the video stunt.[5]

His big break occurred (with the revised name of Jonathan) when he worked for Alistair Cooke on the CBS Television Sunday morning show Omnibus.[12] In 1957 he performed in the first color television show, a 15-minute routine sponsored by Tums.[13]

From 1959 to 1964, Winterss voice could be heard in a series of popular television commercials for Utica Club beer. In the ads, he provided the voices of talking beer steins, named Shultz and Dooley. Later, he became a spokesman for Hefty brand trash bags, for whom he appeared as a dapper garbageman known for collecting gahr-bahj, as well as Maude Frickert" and other characters.[14]

Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label (12), starting in 1960. Probably the best known of his characters from this period is "Maude Frickert, the seemingly sweet old lady with the barbed tongue. He was a favorite of Jack Paar, who hosted The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962, and appeared frequently on his television programs, even going so far as to impersonate thenU.S. president John F. Kennedy over the telephone as a prank on Paar.

However, Winters had a dramatic role in the The Twilight Zone episode A Game of Pool (episode 3.5 on October 13, 1961). He also recorded Ogden Nashs The Carnival of the Animals poems to Camille Saint-Saënss classical opus.

On The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (196292), Winters would usually perform in the guise of some character. Johnny Carson often did not know what Winters had planned and usually had to tease out the characters back story during a pretend interview. Carson invented a character called Aunt Blabby, which was similar to and possibly inspired by Maude Frickert.[15]

Winters appeared in more than 50 movies and many television shows, including particularly notable roles in the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and in the dual roles of Henry Glenworthy and his dark, scheming brother, the Rev. Wilbur Glenworthy, in the film adaptation of Evelyn Waughs The Loved One novel.[3] Fellow comedians who starred with him in Mad World, such as Arnold Stang, said that in the long periods while they waited between scenes, Winters would entertain them for hours in their trailer by becoming any character that they would suggest to him.

He later participated on ABCs The American Sportsman, hosted by Grits Gresham, who took celebrities on hunting, fishing, and shooting trips to exotic places around the world.

Winters made memorable appearances on both The Dean Martin Show and The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, as well as a regular on The Andy Williams Show. He also performed regularly as a panelist on The Hollywood Squares.

During the late 1960s and early 70s, Winters acted in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966), had a nightly CBS show called The Jonathan Winters Show from 1967 to 1969, and appeared in Viva Max! (1970).[3] Additionally, he was a regular (along with Woody Allen and Jo Anne Worley) on the Saturday morning childrens television program, Hot Dog. in the early 1970s. He also had his own syndicated show called The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters, from 1972 to 1974, which was nominated for a 1973 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement In Music Direction of a Variety (Van Alexander).[16][17]

1980s and 1990s career

Jonathan Winters was a guest star on The Muppet Show in 1980. That same year, he also appeared in I Go Pogo (aka Pogo for President). In 1981 he was a guest on the short-lived comedy series Aloha Paradise.

In the fourth and final season of the sci-fi-styled TV comedy Mork & Mindy, Jonathan Winters (one of Robin Williamss idols) was brought in as Mork & Mindys child, Mearth. Due to the different Orkan physiology, Mork laid an egg, which grew and hatched into the much older Winters. It had been previously explained that Orkans aged backwards, thus explaining Mearths appearance and that of his teacher, Miss Geezba (portrayed by then-11-year-old actress Louanne Sirota). Morks infant son Mearth in Mork & Mindy was created in hopes of improving ratings and as an attempt to capitalize on Williamss comedic talents. Winters had previously guest-starred in Season 3, Episode 18, as Dave McConnell, Mindys uncle. However, after multiple scheduling and cast changes, Mork & Mindys fourth season was already quite low in the ratings and ended up being the shows last season.

Winters became a regular on Hee Haw during the 198384 season. He was later the voice of Grandpa Smurf from 1986 to 1990 on the television series The Smurfs. Additionally, he did the voice of Bigelow in the 1985 TV film Pound Puppies, and voice-acted on Yogi's Treasure Hunt in 1985, among other voice roles throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

In 1987, Winters was featured in NFL Films' The NFL TV Follies. That same year he published Winters' Tales: Stories and Observations for the Unusual.

In 1991 and 1992, he had a supporting role on Davis Rules, a sitcom that lasted two seasons (25 episodes), for which he won an Emmy Award. He played Gunny Davis, an eccentric grandfather who was helping raise his grandchildren after his son lost his wife.

In addition to his live action roles, he was a guest star on The New Scooby-Doo Movies (in an episode where he also voiced an animated version of his Maude Frickert character) and as the narrator in Frosty Returns which airs annually aired during the Christmas season. Winters also provided the voice for the thief in Arabian Knight.

In 1994, Winters appeared in a cameo as a fired factory worker in The Flintstones. In an interesting role reversal, he was the serious-minded secular police chief and uncle of the character Lamont Cranston (played by Alec Baldwin) in The Shadow. That same year he voiced Stinkbomb D. Basset in the episode Smell Ya Later on Animaniacs.

Winters received 11 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nominations during his career, and won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for Crank(y) Calls in 1996.[18]

In 1996, Winters played himself in Bloopy's Buddies, a childrens TV series on PBS designed to teach children about health and nutrition and to encourage them to exercise.[19]

In 1999, he was awarded the Kennedy Centers Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, becoming the second recipient.

Later years

Winters had various roles and appeared in numerous television features throughout the early-to mid-2000s.[20] In 2000, Winters appeared in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. In 2003, he appeared in the film Swing.

In 2004, Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time ranked Winters as the #18 greatest stand-up comedian.[21] In 2005 and 2006, Winters appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.[22][23]

In 2008, Winters was presented with a Pioneer TV Land Award by Robin Williams. That same year, PBS aired Pioneers of Television,[24] and Make Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America in 2009,[25] both featuring Winters.

Winters provided the voice of Papa Smurf in the live-action Smurfs film, released in 2011, and reprised the role in the 2013 release of The Smurfs 2 (his final film project).[26]

Winters was originally cast in Big Finish (2014), during pre-production. It is a comedy set in a retirement home. His scheduled role was to appear alongside Jerry Lewis and Bob Newhart.[27][28]

Personal life

On February 8, 1960, Winters received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[29]

In his interview with the Archive of American Television, Winters reported that he spent eight months in a private psychiatric hospital in 1959 and again in 1961. The comic suffered from nervous breakdowns and bipolar disorder.[30] With an unprecedented frenetic energy, Winters made obscure references to his illness and hospitalization during his stand-up routines, most famously on his 1960 comedy album, The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters. During his classic flying saucer routine, Winters casually mentions that if he werent careful, the authorities might put him back in the zoo, referring to the institution.

These voices are always screaming to get out, Winters told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. They follow me around pretty much all day and night. Winters was able to use his talents in voice-over roles as a result. A devotee of Groucho Marx and Laurel and Hardy, Winters once claimed, I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended. He told U.S. News, I ended up doing comedy, writing, and painting.... I've had a ball, and as I get older I just become an older kid.[5]

Winters lived near Santa Barbara, California, and was often seen browsing or hamming for the crowd at the antique show on the Ventura County fairgrounds. He often entertained the tellers and other employees whenever he visited his local bank to make a deposit or withdrawal. Additionally, he spent his time painting and attended many gallery showings, even presenting his art in one-man shows.

On January 11, 2009, Winterss wife of more than 60 years, Eileen, died at the age of 84 after a 20-year battle with breast cancer.[31]

Death

Winters died of natural causes on the evening of April 11, 2013, in Montecito, California, surrounded by family and friends, at the age of 87.[3][17][32] He is survived by his two children, Jay Winters and Lucinda Winters, and five grandchildren.[33]

Fans of Winters placed flowers on his Hollywood Walk of Fame star on April 12, 2013 at 1:30 p.m.[34]

Many comedians, actors, and friends gave personal tributes about Jonathan Winters on social media shortly after his death, including Patton Oswalt, Steve Martin, Pee-wee Herman, Steve Carell, Roseanne Barr, Jimmy Kimmel, Albert Brooks, Robert Klein, Kathy Griffin, Ruth Buzzi, Dane Cook, Keith Olbermann, David Arquette, French Stewart, Kevin Pollak, Joel McHale, Michael McKean, Greg Grunberg, Kelly Monteith Rosie O'Donnell Katy Perry and Hank Azaria, among others. Robin Williams posted, First he was my idol, then he was my mentor and amazing friend. I'll miss him huge. He was my Comedy Buddha. Long live the Buddha.[35][36][37] At the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, Williams would again honor the career and life of Winters.[1]

Comedy style and legacy

A pioneer of improvisational stand-up comedy with a gift for mimicry, impersonations, various personalities, and a seemingly bottomless reservoir of creative energy, Winters was one of the first celebrities to go public with a personal mental illness issue and felt stigmatized as a result.[38] According to Jack Paar, "If you were to ask me the funniest 25 people I've ever known, I'd say, 'Here they areJonathan Winters.' He also said of Winters, "Pound for pound, the funniest man alive."[38]

With his round, rubber-faced, squinty-eyed master of impressions (including ones of John Wayne, Cary Grant, Groucho Marx, James Cagney, and others) and improvisational comedy, Winters became a staple of late-night television with a career spanning more than six decades. With notable honors, many television show, film and comedy circuit appearances, Winters was known to start his stage shows by commanding an applauding audience that had risen to its feet to: Please remain standing throughout the evening.

Winters performed a far-ranging series of characters: hillbillies, arrogant city slickers, nerve-shattered airline pilots trying to hide their fear, disgruntled westerners, judgmental Martians, little old ladies, nosy gas station attendants, a hungry cat eyeing a mouse, the oldest living airline stewardess, and more. I was fighting for the fact that you could be funny without telling jokes, he told The New York Times, adding that he thought of himself foremost as a writer and less as a stand-up comedian. He said he idolized writers with a gift for humor and singled out the sophisticated absurdity of James Thurber as an influence.[39]

Two of his most memorable characters, cranky granny Maude Frickert and bumpkin farmer Elwood P. Suggins (I think eggs 24 hours a day), were born from his early television routines. Robin Williams once told Playboy why Mr. Winters inspired him. It was like seeing a guy behind a mask, and you could see that his characters were a great way for him to talk about painful stuff, he said. I found out later that they are people he knowshis mother, his aunt. Hes an artist who also paints with words. He paints these people that he sees.[2]

Onstage and off, Winters was wildly unpredictable. He was often viewed by producers as a liability, and this led to a scattershot, though memorable, film career. On television, his two self-titled variety shows displayed him in dazzling form as a sketch comic and impersonator.[3]

Winters was an inspiration for performers such as Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Tracey Ullman, Lily Tomlin, Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, and Jimmy Kimmel. Robin Williams credits Winters as his comedy mentor, and the two co-starred on Mork & Mindy.[40]

In a 1991 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Winters likened the entertainment industry to the Olympics, with actors standing on boxes to receive gold, silver, and bronze medals. Winters claimed, I think my place is inside the box, underneath the guy receiving the gold medal. Theyre playing the national anthem and Im fondling a platinum medallion.[1]

Quotations

  • If your ship doesnt come in, swim out to meet it.
  • I couldnt wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
  • Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.[41]

Filmography

Television and film

  • 195657: The Jonathan Winters Show Winters also credited as writer for episodes 1.2 & 1.3[42]
  • 1960: Alakazam the Great (voice actor in English dubbed version)
  • 1961: "A Game of Pool" (episode of The Twilight Zone)
  • 1963: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • 1965: The Loved One
  • 1964: The Jonathan Winters Special (television special)[43]
  • 1965: The Jonathan Winters Show (two television specials)
  • 1966: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
  • 1966: Penelope
  • 1967: Guys 'n' Geishas (Danny Thomas television special)[44]
  • 1967: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
  • 1967: Eight on the Lam
  • 196769: The Jonathan Winters Show (television series)[29]
  • 1968: Now You See It, Now You Don't (television film)[45]
  • 1969: Viva Max!
  • 1970: The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters (television special)
  • 197071: Hot Dog
  • 1972: The New Scooby-Doo Movies
  • 197274: The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters (syndicated television show)[16][17][46]
  • 197580: Hollywood Squares
  • 1976: Jonathan Winters Presents 200 Years of American Humor (television special)[38][47][48][49]
  • 1977: Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera (co-host of television special)
  • 1979: The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh
  • 1980: More Wild, Wild West (TV film)[50][51]
  • 1980: Pogo for President: I Go Pogo (voice of Porky)
  • 1981: Mork & Mindy (recurring role)
  • 1984: E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind (performer)[52]
  • 1985: Alice in Wonderland (voice of Humpty Dumpty in two-part TV film)
  • 1986: The Longshot
  • 1986: King Kong: The Living Legend (host of television special)[53][54]
  • 1987: The Little Troll Prince: A Christmas Parable (voice of King Ulvik aka Left Head)
  • 1988: Moon over Parador
  • 1990: Tiny Toon Adventures (voice of Sappy Stanley in episode "Who Bopped Bugs Bunny")
  • 1991: The Wish that Changed Christmas (voice actor on television special)
  • 1992: Frosty Returns (narrator)
  • 1992: Davis Rules
  • 1992: Spaced Out! (host and executive producer) (features comics such as Bonnie Hunt, Carrot Top and others)[55][56]
  • 1994: The Flintstones
  • 1994: The Shadow
  • 1995: The Thief and the Cobbler aka Arabian Knight (voice of The Thief)
  • 2000: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle $0.4M[57]
  • 2003: Swing
  • 2004: Comic Book: The Movie
  • 2004: Tell Them Who You Are (documentary film) Winters' highest-rated film per Rotten Tomatoes at 88%[58]
  • 2006: National Lampoon's Cattle Call
  • 2007: Certifiably Jonathan[59] (honored celebrity at FGFF) $7.8k[60]
  • 2011: The Smurfs (voice of Papa Smurf)
  • 2013: The Smurfs 2 (voice of Papa Smurf)

Short films

  • 1968: The Early Birds (writer and voices)[52]
  • 1974: Sonic Boom (performer)
  • 2000: Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big (voice actor)
  • 2002: Santa vs. the Snowman 3D (voice of Santa Claus) $10.1M

Discography

  • 1960: Down to Earth
  • 1960: The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters (reissued in 2003)
  • 1961: Here's Jonathan
  • 1962: Another Day, Another World
  • 1962: Humor Seen through the Eyes of Jonathan Winters
  • 1964: Whistle Stopping with Jonathan Winters
  • 1966: Movies Are Better Than Ever
  • 1969: Jonathan Winters Wings it!
  • 1969: Stuff 'n Nonsense
  • 1973: Jonathan Winters and Friends Laugh ... Live
  • 1975: The Little Prince (featured in an adaptation with Richard Burton)
  • 1988: Jonathan Winters Answers Your Telephone
  • 1988: Finally Captured
  • 1989: Hang-Ups Cal'90[61]
  • 1990: Into the '90s
  • 1992: Jonathan Winters is Terminator 3
  • 1993: Best of Jonathan Winters (audio cassette)[62]
  • 1995: Crank(y) Calls
  • 1995: The Thief and the Cobbler aka Arabian Knight (voice of The Thief)
  • 2000: Outpatients
  • 2001: Paul Bunyan
  • 2006: Old Folks
  • 2007: The Underground Tapes
  • 2007: Maude Frickert [explicit][63]
  • 2011: Final Approach
  • 2011: The Smurfs (voice of Papa Smurf)

Compilation

  • 1963: Jonathan Winters' Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (in conjunction with the film of the same name)

Video releases

  • 1968: Jonathan Winters: The Lost Episodes (VHS) (rare TV footage from the 1950s and 1960s including Mickey Rooney, Art Carney, Dinah Shore, Jack Paar, Louis Nye and others)[64]
  • 1986: Say Yes (VHS)[65]
  • 1986: Jonathan Winters: Madman of Comedy (VHS)[66]
  • 1987: On The Ledge (VHS)[67]
  • 1995: Jonathan Winters: Gone Fish'n (VHS/DVD) Winters also credited as editor[68]
  • 2000: The Unknown Jonathan Winters: On the Loose (VHS/DVD)[69][70]
  • 2005: Jonathan Winters: Rare and Riotous (VHS/DVD)[71]
  • 2007: Certifiably Jonathan (DVD) (features Howie Mandel, Tim Conway, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman and others)[72]
  • 2011: Jonathan Winters: Birth of a Genius (DVD)[73]

Bibliography

  • Mouse Breath, Conformity and Other Social Ills (1965) (hardcover)[74]
  • Winters' Tales: Stories and Observations for the Unusual (1st edition 1987)/(2nd edition 1993)/(3rd edition 2001) (paperback)[41][75][76][77]
  • Hang-Ups: Paintings by Jonathan Winters (1st edition 1988) (hardcover)[78]
  • Jonathan Winters: After The Beep (1989) (paperback)[79]
  • Jonathan Winters' A Christmas Carol (2007) (audiobook)[80]
  • Maude Frickert Tells All (2010) (hardcover)[81]

See also

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  75. WINTERS' TALES: Jonathan Winters: 9780394759784. Amazon.com.
  76. Winters' Tales: Stories and Observations for the Unusual: Jonathan Winters: 978091656-2670. Amazon.com.
  77. Winter's Tales: Isak Dinesen: 9780679743347. Amazon.com.
  78. Hang-Ups: Paintings by Jonathan Winters (9780394570242). Amazon.com.
  79. Jonathan Winters: After The Beep: Jim B. Smith: 9780399515354. Amazon.com.
  80. A Christmas Carol (9781598875324): Charles Dickens, Mimi Kennedy, Jonathan Winters, Laurence Olivier, Susan Stamberg. Amazon.com.
  81. Maude Frickert Tells All by Jonathan Winters. goodreads.com.

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  • Jonathan Winters at the Internet Movie Database
  • Jonathan Winters' Official Homepage
  • Interview with the Archive of American Television
  • Official Website of the Jonathan Winters film, Certifiably Jonathan
  • video: Montage of live performances Tribute to Jonathan Winters at the 2003 Orinda Film Festival; 14 minutes
  • video: "Jonathan Winters roasts Ronald Reagan", on Dean Martin Roasts TV show, 3 minutes
  • video: Jonathan Winters on the Jack Paar Show, stand-up comedy routine, 1964
  • Marc Maron interviews Jonathan Winters - WTF Podcast Episode 173 - May 2011
  • Marc Maron on the genius of Jonathan Winters and his "possession of a comic muse perpetually at war with the darkness of his mind", Entertainment, xojane, 2013.04.12
  • Jonathan Winters. Find a Grave.
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