In memoriam: A few final words about comic Shecky Greene chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
CHICAGO — In recent days in the places where older folks gather to remember and talk about what they remember, conversations were peppered with the name Shecky Greene. Only those of a certain vintage know that name, fewer still can recall seeing him on television and even fewer can share memories of what he said and did on the stages of such bygone places as Mister Kelly’s on Rush Street, Mill .
Shecky Greene, the legendary standup comic who was lord of the Las Vegas strip for decades, has died at age 97. Greene was a gifted improviser who could thrill crowds