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Jimmy Durante Comedian

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Feb 10, 1893
  • Died: Jan 29, 1980

James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, New York accent, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He often referred to his nose as the Schnozzola, and the word became his nickname.

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone. alone

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. funny