You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

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.