I should probably save this for closer to Christmas but it's too good to wait. One of my favorite performers as a kid — and someone I had the pleasure of working with when I grew up — is Eddie Lawrence. Eddie is an all-around talent. He acts, he writes, he paints…but he is best known for a comedy routine he's been doing for more than fifty years called "The Old Philsopher." He introduced it in the fifties in a series of best-selling comedy records and it was imitated and plagiarized everywhere.
Eddie is 94 years old and I hear he's still in good shape. At least he was when our pal Kliph Nesteroff interviewed him a few years ago. This video is from Conan O'Brien's old show on NBC on December 23, 1993, almost twenty years ago. Obviously, it's a Christmas show and they closed it by having Eddie come out and do a yuletide version of his signature bit…
