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What a class act through and through.

Cubdriver

Winters was a great talent and a huge favorite of my fathers. I saw him enough to appreciate his brilliance in the 70s and 80s, and I liked him very much too. He was very creative and improvisational, depending on personal drive for comic material which sometimes took a little while to develop on stage, perhaps a bit less consistently than others of his era, but he was more deeply funny than other comedians as well. I get the feeling comedians did not venture away from script as much as Winters would, he practically had no script at all most of the time. Great comedy depends on insight into human nature in order to make light of it, and Winter's had a fine sense of what makes a person go. All parts of the human experience may become fodder for comedy, you just have to look honestly for it. His acts were thus a probing of the inner self which to me is the best kind of comedy, although it is less reliably funny than other types, and I think later generations of fans could not get his humor as readily because they were more used to canned routines hitting ready laughs without taking the time and expense to try and find anything new. Winters wanted to discover something we he not know about himself, and was very skilled in doing so. In my own artistic development I always preferred improvisational techniques for many of the same reasons.

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Cubdriver

One thing I got from Winters is going into a store or something, and coming up with a spontaneous but off the wall comment. That was the Winters specialty, spur of the moment clowning but with an oddly serious purpose.

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