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Shaun Eli takes ball, runs with it

FOS Shaun Eli takes Jerry Blavat to task. He took Blavat’s boneheaded statement in the Joey Bishop interview as a jumping off point for a letter to the Philadelphia Daily News editors:

IN JOEY Bishop’s obituary, you quote Jerry Blavat as saying, “He never used dirt or smut in his acts. Today, you can’t do that. Don Rickles is the only one left, and he’s 80.”

Plenty of comics work clean. I produce a clean comedy show, the Ivy League Comedy Showcase.

To name some prominent comedians who work clean: Bill Cosby, Brian Regan, Jim Gaffigan.

Jay Leno does 10 clean minutes of television five nights a week.

Perhaps you’ve heard of Jerry Seinfeld? Ellen DeGeneres? Robert Klein? Steven Wright?

Some comics are clean. Others are vulgar. But to claim that the youngest clean comedian is 80 is ridiculous.

Shaun Eli Breidbart

Ivy League Comedy Showcase

Pelham, N.Y.

Well done, Shaun!