# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irwin-corey
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:00:59.729Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irwin-corey"
name: "Irwin Corey"
slug: "irwin-corey"
description: "Irwin Corey was an American stand-up comic, film actor and activist, often billed as \"The World's Foremost Authority\". He introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at the San Francisco club the hungry i. Lenny Bruce described Corey as \"one of the most brilliant comedians of all time.\""
tagline: "American comedian and actor (1914–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Irwin_Corey_1963.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1914-07-29"
deathDate: "2017-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.irwincorey.org/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump