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Standup comedian Pat Cooper, perhaps best known to this generation for his frequent appearances on The Howard Stern Show and his guest role on Seinfeld, has died at age 93. Cooper's producer and writing partner Steve Garrin confirmed the news, sharing that the comedian died on Tuesday (June 6) in his Las Vegas home. Said Garrin: "There was nobody like Pat Cooper, who burned every bridge that he went over. I put out a lot of the fires. He was one man who was honest. You could depend on him. You could trust him. If he gave you his word and said he was going to do something, he did it. And he helped so many people." Cooper who was nicknamed the "Comedian of Outrage" due to his anger outbursts first found success while opening for Frank Sinatra at the Sands in Las Vegas. Years later, he starred as himself in the 1996 Seinfeld episode titled, "The Friar's Club." According to Garrin, Cooper improvised his entire scene on that show: "Pat ad-lib

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