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Lou Marks, comedian, 87

FOS John Kensil alerted us to the Philadelphia Daily News obit.

LOOKING at Lou Marks you knew he couldn’t be anything but a comic.

Runty and bug-eyed with a funny haircut, Lou was meant for the stage, making people laugh, which he succeeded in doing for more than 60 years, mostly as a member of the famed comedy team of Fisher & Marks.

The Female Half saw the team perform at the world famous Steel Pier, accompanied by her grandpop. It was that same weekend that her grandfather died. (Read her column about his death here.) “Seeing that show was one of the last fun things I did with my grandpop,” she says.

From the obit:

They were Philadelphia’s Abbott and Costello, with Al the straight man and Lou the manic clown. They were as iconic as their pals, fellow Philadelphians Joey Bishop and Cozy Morley, for many decades of both high and low comedy.