Irving Benson, one of the last survivors of vaudeville and burlesque and a comic who made a career out of playing the Milton Berle wiseguy heckler Sidney Spritzer, has died. He was 102. Benson, the subject of the 2010 documentary The Last First Comic, died May 19 at his home in Port Jefferson, N.Y., his daughter, Vicki Dvorin, told The Hollywood Reporter. For more than a decade, Benson served as one-half of the comedy act Benson and Mann, teaming with straight man Jack Mann, and he was a frequent and favorite guest of Johnny Carson on The Tonight
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- 5/25/2016
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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