Page 24 - Boca Club News - October '23

Page 24, Boca Club News

The Arts

“I’m not laughing, Larry.”

A Word from the Editor

I first met Larry Wilde when a mutual friend of ours someone at Bantam Books, which, as the nation’s largest Larry removed his jacket and started to unbutton the
invited me to attend Larry’s appearance as a stand-up comic paperback publisher, could do the best job for the expanded shirt. “It’s yours,” he said. I was startled, at a loss for
at New York City’s legendary night club, the Copacabana, line of books he had in mind. I arranged for him to have words…finally: “What are you doing? Put that back on.”
one of many he was making across the country. After the lunch with Bantam’s president, whom I knew personally. He took the shirt off and put his sport jacket back on
show Larry and I just clicked. We were both young men The result was a total of 48 titles with sales of more than 12 over his undershirt. “You’re one of my best friends in the
then—he older than I but at the start of his career—and million copies! The New York Times referred to Larry Wilde world. You like the shirt. It’s yours. If you don’t take it, I
that was the beginning of a wonderful close friendship of as “America’s Bestselling Humorist.” will throw it away.”
what is now 54 years. There were more books to come, including “The Great I had no choice. I thanked Larry, hugged him and will
There has hardly been a week gone by that we have not Comedy Writers Talk About Comedy Writing,” featuring his remember always that there was at least one man who met
been in touch with one another, even when I moved back interviews with the likes of Goodman Ace and Mel Brooks… that age-old description of a friend: “a guy who will give
to the east coast after 25 years in L.A. and later in his career—when Larry became a successful you the shirt off his back.”
In the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, Larry was often seen on motivational speaker to large corporate and industry groups On Sunday, September 3rd, Larry’s wife, Maryruth,
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Mary Tyler Moore, delivering a message about the importance of humor in contacted me with the news that Larry had passed away that
The Merv Griffin Show, Sanford and Son and many other increasing communication skills and enriching one’s life—he morning of pneumonia at a hospital in Carmel, California,
popular TV shows. distilled that message in a book, “When You’re Up to Your where they moved to when he retired. He lived to be 95.
Larry became an author when he decided to interview Eyeballs in Alligators.” When my wife and I moved to Boca we had the pleasure
17 of his personal friends for a book, “The Great In 1976, Larry founded National Humor Month, of meeting Larry’s sister, Miriam Krovetz, who at the time
Comedians Talk About Comedy.” Among those who shared celebrated annually in April. It is designed to heighten public was a member of Broken Sound Club. In recent years,
their approaches to the comedic art were: Milton Berle, awareness of the joy and therapeutic value of laughter. Larry contributed 30 Humor columns to Boca Club News.
George Burns, Jack Benny, Johnny Carson, Phyllis Diller, But of all Larry Wilde’s achievements, the one I think I decided to run one this month in his memory and reviewed
Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante and others. about most often was an experience we had together in many of them, all of which were, of course, very funny—
When a publisher asked Larry to put together a the early 1980s. We had both been invited to the same except one, from our April 2016 issue, which I have selected
paperback collection of jokes and it sold well, that led to Hollywood house party. I casually mentioned the handsome because its message seems especially appropriate today. It
several equally successful follow-up titles. At that point shirt under his sport jacket. He said it was new, the first time appears on the following page of this issue.
Larry, knowing of my earlier experience in the book he was wearing it. “You like it?” he asked. I told him he For the first time in all these years, I’m not laughing,
publishing industry, asked if I could introduce him to looked great in it. Larry.

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