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Actor Born: February 8, 1942 in New York City, NY Biography:A graduate of Alfred University, American actor "Robert Klein" spent the 1960s and 1970s amassing a respectable list of stage and film credits (he played "George Segal"'s befuddled roomie in "The Owl and the Pussycat" [1970]), but his bread and butter turned out to be his career as a stand-up comic. First gaining national attention as host of the 1970 TV variety series "Comedy Tonight", Klein went on to transcribe his comedy routines in a series of popular record albums. A "reporter" of humor, the raspy-voiced, heavily eyebrowed Klein is at his best commenting offhandedly on the absurdities of everyday life. Some of his best routines involve the dissection of such pop-culture icons as "The Little Rascals", "My Little Margie", and Babe Ruth; other monologues recall such childhood experiences as civil defense drills and the first dance (complete with imitations of the "Johnny Mathis" records heard on... Full Biography
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