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Burns and Shreiber: Together and Apart by Trav S.D.

Born today: Avery Schreiber (1925-2002). With comedy partner Jack Burns (b 1933), Schreiber was a familiar sight on television variety shows in the 1960s and ’70s. Burns and Schreiber was a very mid-twentieth century sort of act. The portly, mustachioed Scheiber was Jewish; the fast-talking Bostonian Burns was Irish. They tended to use their ethnicities […]

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:12AM on April 9, 2018

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