Murray Roman

Murray Roman (March 8, 1929 – November 6, 1973) was an American stand-up comedian whose career was cut short by a car crash. Many^[who?] consider his style, and material, to be similar to Lenny Bruce.

Biography

He was Keith Moon's favorite comedian.^{[citation needed]} Moon helped Roman obtain a contract with Track Records^{[citation needed]}, which had also signed Jimi Hendrix and The Who.

Roman married three times and had 3 daughters.^{[citation needed]}

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)

TV appearances

• The Rat Patrol, The Tug-of-War Raid: (Mar/04/1968) As Lt. Pohl
• The Monkees, Fairytale (Jan/08/1968) As Harold
• That Girl, This Little Piggy Had a Ball (Mar/23/1967) As Manager of Bowling Alley
• ABC Stage 67, On The Flip Side (Dec/07/1966) As Hairy Eddie Popkin
• Batman, Hizzonner the Penguin (1) (Nov/02/1966) and Dizzonner the Penguin (2) (Nov/03/1966) as E.G. Trendek

Trivia

Roman was sampled by DJ Shadow in "Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2" of his Endtroducing album.(needs citation)

External links

• The Forgotten Murray Roman @ WFMU

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Name	Roman, Murray
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Date of birth	March 8, 1929
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Date of death	November 6, 1973
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