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THIS IS AN AUTHENTICALLY AUTOGRAPHED SEALED LP BY JONATHAN WINTERS.. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF JONATHAN WINTERS(VERVE V6 15009)LP HAS BB HOLE IN UPPER LEFT CORNER. LP IS STILL SEALED WITH SMALL PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP REMOVED FROM FRONT PHOTO COVER FOR AUTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN WINTERS. CONDITION OF THE AUTOGRAPH IS EXCELLENT. 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 at WIZE in Springfield, Ohio. He performed as Johnny Winters on WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio for 2 years, quitting the station in 1953 when they refused him a $5.00 raise. After promising his wife that he would return to Dayton if he did not make it in a year and with $56.36 in his pocket, he moved to New York City staying with friends in Greenwich Village. After obtaining Martin Goodman as his agent he began standup routines in various New York nightclubs. His big break occured, with the revised name of Jonathan, working for Alastair Cooke on the CBS Sunday morning show Omnibus. [2]. In 1957 he performed in the first color television show, a 15 minute routine sponsored by Tums.[3] As a stand-up comic with a madcap wildness, Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label, starting in 1960. Probably the best known of his characters from this period is Maudie Frickert, the seemingly sweet old lady with the barbed tongue. He was a favourite of Jack Paar and appeared frequently on his television programs. In addition, he would often appear on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, usually in the guise of some character. Carson often did not know what Winters had planned and usually had to tease out the character's back story through the course of the interview. Winters has appeared in nearly 50 movies and several 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, Rev. Wilbur Glenworthy, in the film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One. Fellow comedians who starred with him in "Mad World", such as Arnold Stang, claimed 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. On television, in the late sixties, he appeared as a regular (along with Woody Allen and Jo Anne Worley) on the Saturday morning children's program Hot Dog. In the seventies, he appeared in his own show The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters (1972-1974) and as Mork's infant son Mearth in the television program Mork & Mindy. Robin Williams calls Jonathan Winters his idol and greatest influence. Winters has also done some dramatic work, as evidenced in The Twilight Zone episode "A Game of Pool" (episode # 3.5) (13 October 1961). He recorded Ogden Nash's The Carnival of the Animals poems to Camille Saint-Sans' classical opus. He also made an appearance on the Dean Martin Comedy Roasts. Winters appeared on ABC's The American Sportsman hosted by Grits Gresham, who took celebrities on hunting, fishing, or shooting trips to exotic places around the world. In addition to his live action roles, he was also a guest star on The New Scooby-Doo Movies as a sweet old lady who was really the villain and the narrator in Frosty Returns. Winters had also earlier appeared as himself on an episode of Scooby Doo, where the Scooby Gang was looking forward to his promised performance as Maudie Frickert. Along with numerous roles in Scooby Doo, Winters also provided the voice for the Thief in The Thief and the Cobbler (Miramax Version). From 1959 to 1964, Winters' 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-bahge", as well as Maude Frickert and other characters.[4] In 1999, Winters was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In a 2005 interview on XM Radio, Bill Cosby called Winters "The King". Winters now lives near Santa Barbara, California, and is often seen browsing and hamming to the crowd at the antique show at the Ventura County fairgrounds. He often entertains the tellers and other workers whenever he visits his local bank to make a deposit or withdrawal. He spends time painting and has been presented in one-man shows of his art. In 1997 he published Winters' Tales: Stories and Observations for the Unusual. Other writings have followed, and he is said to be working on his autobiography.
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