Good job, TCB! Shelly Berman was absolutely known as a stand-up (or sit down) comedian - that was his fame. His acting stuff was fine, but his fame was as a comic. His records were huge. I had them all and I thought he was very funny on them and I did a perfect imitation of him back then. I used to see him at Jerry's all the time, and then at the Ray Courts show - I bought the CD of his albums and he signed it to me - I found it the other day. I know he was known as cantankerous and to be negative and irritable.