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High-octane comic Lenny Schultz, 91, died on March 17. Schultz was said to be an influence on Robin Williams, Gallagher, and Carrot Top, but it’s not nice to speak ill of the dead. He got his start as a minor-league baseball player and gym teacher (a profession he wisely kept up during his performing days). After making a hit at The Improv in 1969, he appeared on just about every talk and variety show on TV. “They would go nuts,” Schultz told NBC Miami in 2017, “the people, it was very hard to follow my act because I’m doing silly and crazy things. That was my reputation, unique and different and wild and where, how does he think that way?"
Lenny Schultz on Letterman, 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loLg0LBIS3I
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My parents and I used to laugh at his hysterical routines when he performed in various hotels and bungalow colonies in the Catskills in the 60's and 70's.