Robert Klein
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For more than forty years, Robert Klein has entertained audiences. He has had an acclaimed career in comedy, on Broadway, on television, and in film. Born in the Bronx, he was a member of the famed Second City theatrical troupe in Chicago in the 1960s. Twice he was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album of the Year: Child of the Fifties (1973) and Mind Over Matter(1974).

He received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor and won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his performance in the hit Neil Simon musical They’re Playing Our Song in 1979. In 1993, Klein won an OBIE and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosenweig. In 1975, Klein was the first comedian to appear in a live concert on Home Box Office. He has done seven one-man shows for HBO. He was a star of the hit NBC series “Sisters” and has made more than100 appearances on “The Tonight Show” and “The Late Show with David Letterman.” Notable films include Hooper, The Owl and the Pussycat, Two Weeks Notice, and How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days.

Klein recently completed his first book for Simon & Schuster, an affectionate coming-of-age memoir about growing up in the ’50s and ’60s before embarking on a show business career. In The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue, he recounts his journey from an apartment in the Bronx, developing his talent in Chicago and the beginning of his show business stardom that is pure Robert Klein: witty, honest, self-questioning and always contagiously funny. Publishers Weekly writes: “...he unfurls an array of captivating anecdotes, writing with wry wit and honesty.”

Filmography: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Ira & Abby, The Last Unicorn,

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