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Passage: Annette Funicello and Jonathan Winters

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Passage: Annette Funicello and Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters, who died Friday at 87, was a beloved comic whirlwind for generations, one whose influence on movie comics from Robin Williams to Jim Carrey to Sacha Baron Cohen is very apparent.

Mr. Winters was at his best when winging it, puzzling television hosts and luckless straight men with his rapid-fire delivery of bizarre observations uttered by characters like Elwood P. Suggins, a Midwestern Everyman,

Try not to laugh and weep at this 1973 clip of Jonathan Winters improvising his roast of Johnny Carson during one of Dean Martin's Celebrity Roasts.

Robin Williams Remembers Comic Legend Jonathan Winters. "Mork and Mindy" co-star tweets about the passing of fellow stand-up comedian. 02:13 | 04/13/2013. Share: 0 · Comment on this video. ABC News Live. Breaking news video as it happens, continuous live

Jonathan Winters, the rubber-faced stand-up comedian whose unscripted flights of fancy inspired a generation of improvisational comics, and who reserved television audiences in stitches with Main Street characters like Maude Frickert, a sweet-seeming grandmother

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