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Dec 8, 2015 · By the time he started appearing on talk and variety shows in the late 1960s, he was David Frye. It was de rigueur for Jewish entertainers to give themselves WASP-ier stage names in those...
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Jan 30, 2011 · David Frye, who became one of the country's most popular comic satirists with his realistic and caustic impressions of President Richard M. Nixon and other political figures, died Jan. 24...
David Shapiro (November 21, 1933 – January 24, 2011) was an American comedian, specializing in comic imitations of famous political figures, most of whom were based on notable Americans, including former U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon, Vice Presidents Hubert Humphrey, Spiro Agnew, and Nelson Rockefeller, and Senator Bobby ...
Jan 28, 2011 · “I am the president” — his tag line and the title of a comedy album he recorded for Elektra in 1969 — seemed to get at the essence of a powerful politician in desperate need of validation.
Jan 29, 2011 · “I am the president” his blustery tag line and the title of a 1969 comedy album he recorded for Elektra seemed to get at the essence of a powerful politician in desperate need of validation.
Jan 30, 2011 · His career really took off during the Nixon administration, when Frye (born David Shapiro) became a regular presence on television, and a headline act in clubs.
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As Frye explained to Esquire in a February 1970 feature, "I do Nixon not by copying his real actions but by feeling his attitude, which is that he cannot believe that he really is president. He's trying to convince himself when he says, 'I am the president!' and the moving eyes and tongue merely symbolize the way his mind is working."
