[Impala64ssa]

I remember his appearances on Johnny Carson. Had me ROTFLMAO, RIP

[mylife]

RIP

[Williams]

He also was nice not foul.

[Albion Wilde]

This man epitomized everything to love about people from Philadelphia (before the Marxists took the city over 20 years ago). He was warm, funny, open, familiar, hip without being a snob about it, comfortable in his ethnicity and just all-around loveable. I am shocked how sad I feel that he will no longer be around; almost as shocked as I am to hear he was 78.

So many comedians owe their success to this guy who blazed a trail for the humor in everyday life. Seinfeld could not have succeeded without Brenner first having shown the way.

[Albion Wilde]

Jimmy Fallon ought to do a Tonight Show special on David.

[zbogwan2]

I remember this routine he and his buddies did as teens: David would get on a city bus carrying a mop, pail, broom and other cleaning stuff. He’d cause a commotion trying to find a seat and then he’d exit the bus. His buddies would have been following the bus in their car all the time and they’d pick David up and speed way ahead of the bus to the next bus stop. David would then get on that same bus again. It was a pretty funny story when David told it.

God Bless David and his family and speed this funny comedian on to heaven!

[TalBlack]

There is a picture of Brenner in his autobio that I have never forgotten that was taken when Brenner was maybe 14, by an itinerant photographer. The face is pure city kid distracted for a moment by something; a moment in fleeting time that is captured and preserved eternally. In this age of the camera this phenomenon is rarer than one would expect.

[trisham]

"Brenner was born in 1936 and raised in poor areas of South and West Philadelphia. His father, Louis, was a vaudeville comedian, singer and dancer performing under the stage name of Lou Murphy. He gave up his career, and a film contract, to please his rabbi father who objected to his working Friday nights.

After high school, Brenner spent two years in the U.S. Army, serving in the 101st Airborne and as a cryptographer of the 595th Signal Corps in Böblingen, Germany. After being discharged, he attended Temple University, where he majored in mass communication and graduated with honors."

Source: Wikipedia

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