Murray Roman

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Murray Roman (March 8, 1929 – November 6, 1973){{cite web|url=https://theiapolis.com/actor-EPQF/murray-roman/|title=Murray Roman|website=Theiapolis.com|access-date=8 October 2021}} was an American stand-up comedian and television writer whose career was cut short by a car crash. Many{{Who|date=November 2009}} consider his style, and material, to be similar to Lenny Bruce.

Career

In addition to his stand-up comedy, Roman was a writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour television series and, as part of the Comedy Hour writing team, won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for his work in 1969. A noted sketch was "The Honey House", which mocked the 1968 hit song "Honey", by Bobby Goldsboro. The sketch featured a tour of the house where the eponymous Honey had lived and died, conducted by her husband, played first by Tom Smothers and then by Dick Smothers.

According to American actor and comedy writer Bob Einstein, English musician Keith Moon was a "huge fan" of Roman.{{cite interview|last=Einstein|first=Bob|subject-link=Bob Einstein|interviewer=Kliph Nesteroff|title=Murray Roman: Reflections of his Contemporaries – Pt. 3: Bob Einstein|url=https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/11/murray-roman--1.html|publisher=WFMU|date=18 November 2007|access-date=22 June 2019}} Moon helped Roman obtain a contract with Track Records.{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}}

===Discography===

Out of Control
You Can't Beat People Up and Have Them Say I Love You
A Blind Man's Movie
Busted
Backtrack 13 (You Can't Beat People Up and Have Them Say I Love You)

=Television appearances=

The Rat Patrol, "The Tug-of-War Raid" (March 4, 1968), as Lt. Pohl
The Monkees, S2:E16, "Fairy Tale" (January 8, 1968), as Harold
That Girl, "This Little Piggy Had a Ball" (March 23, 1967), as Manager of Bowling Alley
ABC Stage 67, "On the Flip Side" (December 7, 1966), as Hairy Eddie Popkin
Batman, "Hizzonner the Penguin (1)" (November 2, 1966) and "Dizzonner the Penguin (2)" (November 3, 1966), as E.G. Trends
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, wrote and occasionally appeared
Murray Roman's TV Show,{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15559848/ | title=Murray Roman's TV Show | publisher =IMDb }} television special (1970), host

=Influence=

DJ Shadow sampled Roman's record Busted in "Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2", a track on his 1996 album Endtroducing. DJ Shadow also sampled Busted on his single "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)".{{cite web

| url = http://www.tribemagazine.com/board/threads/dj-shadows-sample-list-endtroducing.49593/

| title = DJ Shadow's Sample List (Endtroducing)

| website = Tribe

| date = 21 September 2003

| access-date = 2017-02-01

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