- Known to be an able provider of topical joke material for Academy Award hosts (notably Billy Crystal). Also for comedy personalities on the road such as Bette Midler.
- Playing Edna Turnblad in the Broadway production of Hairspray, recently played by Michael McKean and originated by Harvey Fierstein. (October 2004)
- Hefty, quipping, American gag writer who turned celebrity after becoming a wisecracking regular on the revamped Hollywood Squares (1998) game show (located next to Whoopi Goldberg in the left-center square).
- Had a musical comedy background, claiming to have done every Stubby Kaye role there was.
- Starring as Edna Turnblad in the national tour of the Broadway smash hit, Hairspray. (September 2003)
- Attended Ohio State University in the 1960s as a theater and journalism student.
- Is of Jewish descent.
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