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' He'd call and say: 'A guy walks into a bar "He never called just to say, 'Hello The cause of death was not immediately known, but his son said Hackett suffered from diabetes "It's a damn circle," he joked Hackett began his career playing for small money on the Borscht Circuit for New York City vacationers in the Catskill Mountains, he learned to get laughs with his complaints about being short, fat and Jewish â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? Associated Press Writer Laura Wides contributed to this story Funnyman Buddy Hackett Dies at 78 Jul 1, 9:02 AM EST Comedian Buddy Hackett, known for his rubbery face and sometimes raunchy jokes, never strayed far from a punch line, often peppering friends and family with his humor "If I was going to a corporate job somewhere, I'd call him up, and he'd rattle off 10 jokes," his son, Sandy Hackett, 47, recalled When "Curly" Howard, the one who got slapped in the comedy team The Three Stooges, suffered a stroke in 1946, Hackett was invited to take his place but declined, believing he could develop his own comedy style " His most notable roles came in "The Music Man," "The Love Bug" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Soon he was making big money across the country, and audiences called for his most noted routine, the Chinese waiter In 1954, playwright Sidney Kingsley persuaded Hackett to appear on Broadway in "Lunatics and Lovers " Among his other movies: "Fireman Save My Child," "God's Little Acre," "All Hands on Deck," "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm," "Muscle Beach Party," "Loose Shoes," "Scrooged" and Disney's "The Little Mermaid," as the voice of Scuttle He was 78 Besides his son, Hackett is survived by his wife, Sherry, whom he met in the Catskills, and daughters Ivy Miller of Denver and Lisa Hackett of Los Angeles Hackett had flopped using joke writers, and he soon came to realize that only he could write for Buddy Hackett After graduating from high school, he spent three years in the military during World War II, then reinvented himself as Buddy Hackett, standup comedian " Brooks Atkinson, writing in The New York Times, described Hackett as "a large, soft, messy comic with a glib tongue and a pair of inquiring eyes " He was born Leonard Hacker in a Jewish section of New York City's borough of Brooklyn on Aug "Compared to motion pictures, I'm very mild these days," he remarked in 1996 He used humor to offset the taunts about his roly-poly shape 31, 1924 For a time he apprenticed in his father's upholstery shop, but at school he found he had a talent for making fellow students laugh His career grew with appearances on the TV shows of Jack Paar, Arthur Godfrey and others " He also appeared on the New York stage in "Viva Madison Avenue" (1960) and "I Had a Ball" (1964) In the beginning, his material was suitable for family audiences, but in later years nightclubs advertised his show "For Mature Audiences Only He played comic Lou Costello in the 1978 film "Bud and Lou Doing so, he moved on to Los Angeles, where he scored at a small showcase club When he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame a few years ago, Hackett quipped that he had left Brooklyn "to get away from the subway" only to discover that his star had been placed above the one in Los Angeles '" The elder Hackett, who appeared for more than 50 years as a top act in nightclubs, in Broadway shows, on television and in movies, died at his Southern California beach house late Sunday or early Monday " His performances in those days were noted for their prolific use of four-letters words at a time when that just wasn't done Hackett made his film debut in 1953 with "Walking My Baby Back Home " On television, he starred in the short-lived series "Stanley" from 1956 to 1957 and made numerous guest appearances on other shows, appearing in recent years on "Just Shoot Me" and "Sabrina The Teenage Witch" and, in a recurring bit called "Tuesdays With Buddy," on "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn Hoffman Reprises Dash to Church for Ad Feb 12, 2:14 PM EST Dustin Hoffman is dashing to church again The two are later seen riding away in a bus It will air in Europe only The actor reprised his rush to the United Methodist Church in 1967's "The Graduate" for a car commercial in which he stops his daughter's wedding The ad being filmed in this east Los Angeles County city is only the second commercial Hoffman has appeared in, the 66-year-old actor said Wednesday In the final scenes of "The Graduate," Hoffman's breakthrough film, his character pulled Katharine Ross' character from the church, fighting off parents and guests In the Michael Bay-directed car commercial, Hoffman again rescues the bride, but this time returns to a 2005 Audi |
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