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Family members and friends of Larry Gelbart will mount a tribute to the prolific scribe on Dec.

David Lloyd, who not only wrote some of the greatest single episodes in TV sitcom history [ Chuckles the Clown youtube ], but consistently wrote hilariously, has died at 75.

Larry Gelbart had a bone to pick with Dustin Hoffman. In Mike Sachs' new book "And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft," Gelbart, who died last month and who was nominated for an Oscar for co-writing Hoffman's "T... Comments No comments yet.

After two years of research and interviews, Mike Sacks is convinced there definitely is a connection between being Jewish and comedy and humor writing.

Towards the end of Annie Hall , Woody Allen, as Alvy Singer, visits an edit room where his friend Rob is tinkering with footage from his new show.

The creative minds at the Norris Center for the Performing Arts had no idea when they scheduled "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" that the company's revival of the wacky musical would be the first after the death of its co-writer Larry Gelbart.

Comedy writer Larry Gelbart won many awards during his career, including this 2007 Valentine Davies Award.

A Funny Thing Happened... When I was a kid, my mom used to complain that there was nothing on TV half as funny as Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows" used to be.

Gelbart's colleagues remember "master of masters" LOS ANGELES a ' The classic series "M*A*S*H," the hit movie comedy "Tootsie" and the Tony-winning play "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" are part of the enduring legacy that writer Larry Gelbart left behind when he died September 11 at age 81.

The classic series "M*A*S*H," the hit movie comedy "Tootsie" and the Tony-winning play "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" are part of the enduring legacy that writer Larry Gelbart left behind when he died September 11 at age 81.

In the end, Larry Gelbart was grateful that when M*A*S*H* was released on DVD, 20th Century Fox allowed viewers the option of watching it either with a laugh track or without.

OBITUARY: Larry Gelbart. Comic writer. Born Chicago, Illinois, February 25, 1928.

The brilliant TV and film writer Larry Gelbart was a friend. Not one of those friends who you hung out with or lived nearby but one of those people who made you feel important even if you didn't think so yourself.

Tributes poured in over the weekend to Larry Gelbart, best known as the creator of the M*A*S*H* TV series, who died Friday of cancer at age 81.

The Los Angeles Times reports that Larry Gelbart died today at 81, and if you watch M*A*S*H reruns -- which a lot of you do, have, and will -- you've seen his name countless times.

The marquees of the Broadway theatres will be dimmed Sept. 15 at 8 PM for one minute to pay tribute to the Tony Award-winning librettist, Larry Gelbart, who died Sept.

Some days, you wish you didn't answer the phone. Today was that day. It was a friend telling me that Larry Gelbart had died.

They remembered with love - and a lot of laughter - the star of television's "Maude" and "The Golden Girls," a woman who also appeared in such hit musicals as "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Mame." Memories of Bea Arthur filled Broadway's Majestic Theatre Monday as friends, family and co-stars recalled the tall, baritone-voiced and supremely funny ...

Larry Gelbart died today at the age of 81 . I always had reservations about his work, but my reservations shouldn't be taken seriously, given that every comedy writer I have ever admired or respected considers Gelbart the greatest of them all.

Larry Gelbart, the award-winning writer whose sly, sardonic wit helped create such hits as Broadway's 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,' the films 'Tootsie' and 'Oh, God!' and television's 'M*A*S*H,' is dead.