Charlie Callas is dead. He died yesterday, Thursday, January 27, in a Nevada hospice, from natural causes. He was 86 years old.
He was a comedian, a funny man. He was brilliant. His orbit in the Associated Press, states that he was a sidekick. He made some movies. He opened the act for big Hollywood and musical recording stars.
I saw him on the Tonight Show, when Johnny Carson was king. He made funny faces, told funny stories and jokes. He is being remembered as a rubber-faced comedian who toured with Frank Sinatra and Tom Jones, and was popular on television and on the nightclub circuit, and in the movies for more than four decades.
Watching Charlie Callas work was a joy, a delight. The joke was important. Well thought out humor, delivered with zany faces was his act. But his act was funnier than the joke.
Charlie Callas, R.I.P.