Pat Cooper, an acerbic stand-up comedian who mocked his Italian American heritage with one-liners about garlic and eggplants, winning him comparisons to Alan King, died at his home in Las Vegas. He was 93.
He sometimes used other ethnic stereotypes to elevate Italian Americans.“Do you realize that the Jewish people consume more Italian food than any nationality on the face of this earth?” he
Stern eventually became one of Mr. Cooper’s many enemies, a list that also included Sinatra , Joan Rivers and Geraldo Rivera .“Controversy is good,” he told the New York Times. “Every time it happens, my price goes up.” Mr. Cooper was drafted into the Army in 1952 but was discharged following some poor behavior, he wrote in his
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