Daniel Simon (December 18, 1918, The Bronx, New York – July 26, 2005,

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) was an American television writer and comedy teacher.

Biography

The older brother of playwright

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, the two siblings wrote comedy together until Neil left to write plays. Danny would wrote for television shows including '' Your Show of Shows'', '' The Colgate Comedy Hour'', ''

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'', '' Make Room for Daddy'', ''

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'', and '' The Facts of Life''. He later became a comedy teacher.

Quotations

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said about Simon, "I've learned a couple of things on my own since and modified things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about comedy writing I learned from him". Jimmy Boyd, "Being around Danny always makes me and everyone else happy. He is always up and positive, and he sees humor in absolutely everything. It is endless funny one-liners. In rehearsal I could read the same comedy line a hundred times, and Danny would be laughing".

Personal life and death

Simon was married to Arlene Friedman from 1953 to 1962. The couple had two children, Michael Howard Simon and Valerie Jeanne Simon (died 2009). In 2011, Michael Simon was appointed by President

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to be a judge on the

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. Danny Simon died in 2005 at age 86 at the Robison Jewish Health Center in Portland, Oregon. He had suffered a stroke.

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