Usually when I do a 100th-birthday salute, the subject of my adulation has long since cast off their mortal coil. Not so “Professor” Irwin Corey, who joins Bob Hope and George Burns in making it into 3-digit territory and proving that comedy is good for your health. Born in Brooklyn a century ago today, the self-proclaimed “World’s Foremost Authority” is, as I write this, celebrating his 100th birthday not far from me in Manhattan. Yahoo!

My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin