Curb Your Enthusiasm's Shelley Berman Dead at 92

Famed comedian Shelley Berman has died. He was 92 years old.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, he passed away early Friday morning in his California home after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Coming from the golden era of comedy alongside the likes of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Bob Newhart, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show more than 20 times and became famous for his "sit-down" brand of comedy in which he sat on a barstool and told funny stories while miming a telephone.

In the '60s he gained notoriety for having an outburst when a phone rang backstage, interrupting one of his routines. "I got a reputation for causing trouble, maybe because I am passionate about things," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1990, per THR.