Another Side of Jonathan Winters

Ed Newman
17 min readMar 7, 2019

“The one thing about art I like, and I still do: you’re in charge.”
— Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters. (Publicity photo, public domain.)

I probably first noticed Jonathan Winters in the star-studded It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Throughout the sixties he made regular appearances on network television, culminating in having his own show from 1972–74. Bill Cosby called him the king of comedy and Robin Williams similarly praised…

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