Spoiler : Host of television programs including The Morey Amsterdam Show on CBS (1948-1949); DuMont (1949-1950); Broadway Open House on NBC (1950); Battle Of The Ages on CBS (1952). Dramatic debut on "Not For Publication" telecast on DuMont-TV in 2/1952. Panelist on television series including Who Said That? for NBC (1948-1951); Tag the Gag for NBC (1951); Keep Talking for CBS (1958-1959); Hollywood Squares for NBC (1967-1968); the syndicated television series, Can You Top This? (1969-1970). Television character actor from the early 1950s to his death in 1996. Maurice "Buddy" Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show for CBS-TV (1961-1966). Provided his voice for characters on the NBC-TV animated series, Mr Magoo (1964-1965).

Spoiler : (Nickname was the Human Joke Machine) Born in Chicago, Illinois 12/14/1914; died 10/28/1996 of a heart attack at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. California. Married to Kay Patrick (1942-1996 his death). His father was a concert violinist with the Chicago Opera and the San Francisco Symphony. His father wanted him to be a classical musician, and he trained as a cellist, but began his career at age 14 in vaudeville as a straightman to his piano playing brother. By age 16 was performing at Al Capone's speakeasy in Chicago. By the 1930s, was living in California writing gags for cmics including Fanny Brice, Jimmy Durante and Will Rogers. Composer of several songs including Rum and Coca Cola and Why, Oh Why Did I Leave Wyoming?. Screen debut in It Came From Outer Space (1953). Last movie was playing a car salesman in Sandman (1993).

Spoiler : By the late 1940s, he was on three different daily radio programs, once prompting comic Fred Allen's comment, "The only thing I can turn on without getting Amsterdam is the faucet." Panelist on Stop Me if You've Heard This One for Mutual-Radio (1947-1948). Host of The Laugh And Swing Club on Mutual-Radio (1946); The Morey Amsterdam Show on CBS-Radio (1948-1949). Guest star on many radio programs including Guide Right (1952-1953); Who Said That? for NBC (1954); Keep Talking for CBS (1958-1960); The John Gary Show for CBS (1966).