The youth of today or even my own generation has no idea who Ed Wynn is and they are really missing out! He started out in Vaudville theater. He had a son, the famous hollywood actor Keenan Wynn who stared in The Great Race, and in Doctor Strangelove! You might now Ed Wynn from the Disney cartoon Alice in Wonderland where he plays the Mad Hatter and Jerry Colona plays the hare. You might also remember him from Mary Poppins where he plays Mary Poppins uncle Albert I think the characters name was, well he is the one who sings I love to laugh and everyone in the room laughing ends up floating to the ceiling! He was also in a twilight zone episode, I think it's the one about the grandfather clock and if the clock stops he dies to! He might be in the one about the crazy inventor who makes this hat machine invention unless that episode was played by Buster Keaton...I can't now remember! I read his scripts of his old tv show the Ed Wynn show from the 1950's in the library at the writers guild foundation on 3rd and fairfax in LA! I love watching his old tv shows! Before YouTube I used to go to the motion picture arts and sciences academy in downtown Beverly Hills to watch his old tv show episodes! Now, on YouTube you can find many of his old tv show skits and acts. He has a natural gift for comedy, and is still one of the funniest men ever, kind of like Jack Benny where your skits and jokes are awesome even 60 years or more later!
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