Irving Cohen

Long-lived, stogie-smoking Tin Pan Alley songwriter played by Martin Short. He would frequently ramble, name-drop Al Jolson and Sophie Tucker, and then tell an off-screen piano player to "gimme a C, a bouncy C!" and then ad-lib a song.

He first appeared on SCTV (18 February 1983), and like Jackie Rogers Jr., Short took he character with him wherever he was working: Saturday Night Live,,

Appearances

• Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas, 1985, TV special
• "The Irving Who Came to Dinner," episode of The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, 3 Dec. 1988.
• episode 110 of Muppets Tonight, July 14, 1996
• episode of Primetime Glick, 25 July 2001
• I, Martin Short, Goes Home 2012, TV special

External Links

• http://sctvguide.ca/cgi-bin/sctvmangler?Irving%20Cohen