Shelley Berman - Outside Shelley Berman flac album

Sheldon Leonard Berman (February 3, 1925 – September 1, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, teacher, lecturer and poet. In his comedic career, Berman was awarded three gold records and he won the first Grammy Award for a spoken comedy recording in 1959. He played Larry David's father on Curb Your Enthusiasm, a role for which he received a 2008 Emmy Award nomination. He taught humor writing at the University of Southern California for more than 20 years.

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On Outside, the follow-up to Berman's Grammy-winning debut disc, Inside, the comedian once again utilizes the unique concept of storytelling via the one-sided telephone conversation. He also branches out into a revolutionary bit of audience participation in the form of a game called ". Rather than play into the neurosis of his audience - à la Woody Allen or later Steven Wright - Berman's approach incorporates a more natural system of deduction via the somewhat compulsory art of eavesdropping.

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Inside Shelley Berman (1959) won the first Grammy for a non-musical album and was the first comedy album to win a gold disc. He went on to make six records altogether, two of which – Outside Shelley Berman (1959) and The Edge of Shelley Berman (1960) – were also million-sellers. In 1960 he was the first standup comedian to play at New York’s temple of music, Carnegie Hall. His success made more acting possible, and he starred in the Broadway musical A Family Affair (1962), and in a national tour of the Richard Rodgers show Two By Two (1972-73), which had originally starred iDanny Kaye.