We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.

After high school he worked as a runner on Wall Street while he tried to make it as an actor. They had two children Adam and Amanda. They formed a troupe called the Revuers which performed at the Village Vanguard a club in Greenwich Village.

Many people thought the pair were married; they were not but they shared a unique comic genius and sophisticated wit that enabled them to forge a six-decade-long partnership that produced some of Hollywood and Broadway's greatest hits.