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Famous Comedians And Their Schticks

• Jack Benny's character on his radio program was notoriously both stingy and a bad violin player. In real life, Benny was known as an expert violinist and lavish tipper.

• The Blues Brothers, the dark-suited alter egos of Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, began as a schtick and grew into a record and two movies.

• Johnny Carson's schticks include Carnac the Magnificent, an Indian fortune teller who could give divine answers to questions sealed in envelopes and kept in a mayonnaise jar on the front porch of Funk & Wagnalls since earlier that afternoon.

• Andrew Dice Clay is a crude misogynist (at least one hopes this is just his schtick).

• Rodney Dangerfield don't get no respect.

• Jerry Lewis's schtick was to act like a schlemiel, but in real life (for example as the host of the annual Muscular Dystrophy Association telethons) he is generally regarded as a mensch.

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