Sammy Shore Dies, father of Pauly and Founder of the Comedy Store.

This is how he will be remembered.
He was also a stand-up comic.
Most people don't remember his stand-up act.
This is mainly because it wasn't memorable.
Almost before the term was invented, Sammy Shore defined the term "hack comic".
But he made a great living at, opening in Las Vegas, and Lake Tahoe for such headliners as
Tony Orlando, Barbara Streisand, Tony Bennett, and Elvis Presley.
They all had one thing in common besides being huge stars.
They were all funnier than Sammy Shore.
When you have Sammy Shore open for you, you don't have to worry about him stealing your thunder.
I used to see Sammy Shore when the Comedy Store first opened all the time.
He'd would do his act usually about 20 minutes there most evenings.
It wasn't unbearable.
It was merely unnoticeable.
He would usually slither around the stage, and get very few laughs.
And there were so many great acts that regularly appeared at the Comedy Store at that time.
Richard Pryor, David Letterman, Rodney Dangerfield....
There was one night when Leonard Barr was onstage doing Rodney's material.
Rodney was waiting to go on and noticed this.
He immediately charged the stage and began corrected Leonard's delivery.
It was hilarious, and I was there to see it.
The only time I saw I saw Sammy Shore do more than 20 minutes was when he guested on the
David Frost Show in the 60s.
Apparently, the lead guest fell out, and Sammy Shore turned out to be the only guest.
Ninety minutes of Sammy Shore.
Ninety minutes of David Frost fawning all over Sammy Shore.
I couldn't believe it.
I don't think HE believed it.
But he was a nice person.
He gave us the Comedy Store and that was a good thing.
Go well in the next life.  Just try to be a little funnier and a little less hacky.

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