We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

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.