RIP Bob Einstein

[John B. Foster]

’Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Favorite Bob Einstein Is Dead At 76

RIP Super Dave.

 

[Songbird]

A classmate married his daughter.

Super Dave was right in my wheelhouse as a kid.

Thought he was great on Curb.

And one of the 5 best moments on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is when he told the dirtiest joke that put Jerry in stitches -- first time I'd ever seen Jerry Seinfeld let his hair down and just LAUGH.

Everything about Bob was funny. Just looking at him and his facial expressions was funny. His voice. His tenor. His delivery. His deadpan. Everything about Bob Einstein was perfect.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Also, the older brother of Albert Brooks (whose birth name was Albert Einstein).

He was SO GOOD on "Curb." He uttered what might be my favorite TV line ever, from "Palestinian Chicken," when he told Larry "If Rabin can break bread with Arafat, I can eat chicken at this anti-Semitic ****hole."



RIP.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Genuine Saskatchewan Seal Skin Bindings

 

[Jake_Taylor]

RIP. Just don’t let Larry handle the obituary or the flowers.

 

[Buck]

Wow. So funny.
And I never knew he was Albert Brooks' brother!

 

[Steak Snabler]

Wow. So funny.
And I never knew he was Albert Brooks' brother!

And a third brother was sports writer Charles Einstein, editor of the famed "Fireside Book of Baseball" series and biographer of Willie Mays.

 

[ChrisLong]

The guy who played his announcer on his early TV show was Mike Walden. He was a TV and radio guy in L.A., one of the few to broadcast both USC and UCLA games. He died about two years ago. He used to talk about Super Dave all the time. It was fun.

From his LAT obit:
Wider exposure came on the small screen, as part of the "Super Dave" television comedy series. Playing himself, Walden would interview Super Dave Osborne, an ill-fated daredevil, before and after his doomed stunts. The show lasted 95 episodes and aired on Showtime.

 

[Webster]

Are you Koufaxing me?

 

[Jake from State Farm]

He also played Officer Judy on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

 

[CD Boogie]

I had no idea his name was Bob Einstein. I saw him on Curb and just assumed that his name was still Dave Osbourne, sans the Super.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Known primarily as Super Dave Osborne and Marty Funkhouser on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

‘Super Dave,’ ‘Curb Your Enthusiam’ actor Bob Einstein dies

 

[John B. Foster]

Known primarily as Super Dave Osborne and Marty Funkhouser on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

‘Super Dave,’ ‘Curb Your Enthusiam’ actor Bob Einstein dies

RIP Bob Einstein

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Rip Super Dave: I vaguely remember him doing an interview on the old Roy Firestone show promoting a book on youth sports that had chapters on things such as how to pick an agent and how to gamble without getting caught. I didn’t quite understand it was a parody because firestone was so convincing in his approach, which made it even more funny.

 

[User 149557]

What I wouldn't give to have audio recordings of those household riffs between Albert Brooks and Bob Einstein when they were growing up.

 

[mpcincal]

The guy who played his announcer on his early TV show was Mike Walden. He was a TV and radio guy in L.A., one of the few to broadcast both USC and UCLA games. He died about two years ago. He used to talk about Super Dave all the time. It was fun.

From his LAT obit:
Wider exposure came on the small screen, as part of the "Super Dave" television comedy series. Playing himself, Walden would interview Super Dave Osborne, an ill-fated daredevil, before and after his doomed stunts. The show lasted 95 episodes and aired on Showtime.

Although they did spin off Super Dave to his own series, the character first got its notoriety from "Bizarre," the Showtime sketch-comedy show hosted by John Byner.

 

[Cosmo]

He was also the surrogate on Arrested Development.

 

[Songbird]

Here's a still of Jerry laughing at the punchline of the joke I mentioned.

 

[HanSenSE]

And a third brother was sports writer Charles Einstein, editor of the famed "Fireside Book of Baseball" series and biographer of Willie Mays.

Half-brothers per Wikipedia. Looked it up because I'm always confused on the relationship.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Oh man. A favorite for all the reasons listed here.

He was also always great on Letterman.