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Murray Roman (March 8, 1929 – November 6, 1973) was an American stand-up comedian and television writer whose career was cut short by a car crash.
Murray Roman (March 8, 1929 – November 6, 1973) was an American stand-up comedian and television writer whose career was cut short by a car crash.
In addition to his stand-up comedy, Roman was a writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour television series and, as part of the Comedy Hour writing team, won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for his work in 1969. A noted sketch was "The Honey House", which mocked the 1968 hit song "Honey", by Bobby Goldsboro. The sketch featured a tour of the house where the eponymous Honey had lived and died, conducted by her husband, played first by Tom Smothers and then by Dick Smothers.[citation needed]
According to American actor and comedy writer Bob Einstein, English musician Keith Moon was a "huge fan" of Roman. Moon helped Roman obtain a contract with Track Records.[citation needed]
DJ Shadow sampled Roman's record Busted in "Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2", a track on his 1996 album Endtroducing. DJ Shadow also sampled Busted on his single "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)".[better source needed]
Roman married three times and had three daughters.[citation needed]
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