Dick Capri, 1931 – 2024

Borscht-belt comic Dick Capri, 93, died on Dec. 26. Starting his performing career in his father’s deli, Capri went on to work at the Catskills, and toured worldwide, opening for such stars as Tom Jones, Liza Minnelli, and Frank Sinatra. He appeared on Broadway in Catskills On Broadway (1991), and was seen in many TV variety shows, as well as playing Radio City Music Hall, Las Vegas, and the Palladium in London. Capri’s comedy was old-school: “I sent away to a genealogy company to look up my family tree. It says I had an ancestor who actually attended the last supper. But you can’t see him in the picture because he wasn’t at the head table—he was at table 4, and he won the centerpiece.”