Larry Gelbart

Larry Simon Gelbart (born February 25 1928 in Chicago) is a prolific American comedy writer with over sixty years of credits.He began as a writer for Danny Thomas radio show during 1940s, and wrote for Jack Paar and Bob Hope. On 1950s television he worked for Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour, along with other gifted comedy writers Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, and Carl Reiner.Larry Gelbart wrote the long-running Broadway farce A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim in 1962, and collaborated with Shevelove on the British movie comedy, The Wrong Box.
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