{"id":33048,"date":"2023-06-08T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33048"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:13:00","slug":"rip-pat-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33048","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Pat Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pat Cooper, the stand-up comedian and actor, died on June 6, 2023.\u00a0 He was 93.<\/p>\n

Pat Cooper, born Pasquale Caputo, began his career as stand-up comedian in the 1950s.\u00a0 His big break came after an appearance on The Jackie Gleason Show<\/em> in 1963.\u00a0 Pat Cooper would go on to create comedy albums, provide the opening act for top stars such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr. and many others.\u00a0 Pat Cooper would also headline shows in Vegas, Atlantic City and other entertainment locales.<\/p>\n

Pat Cooper also appeared on television and in movies.<\/p>\n

Some of Pat Cooper’s television appearances include: Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine<\/em> (3 episodes); Vega$; Charlie’s Angles; LA Law<\/em> and Seinfeld<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some of Pat Cooper’s feature film appearances include: Silent Predator; Analyze This<\/em> and Analyze That.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1981, Pat Cooper went on Tom Snyder’s Tomorrow<\/em> where Mr. Cooper insulted many top celebrities while at the same time telling how great he was.\u00a0 This would become his trademark act in later years when he would go on The Howard Stern Show<\/em> (and other programs) and his short temper would ignite and he’d insult others while explaining that he was “A-List!”\u00a0 Some times his grown children would phone in and he’d get into arguments with them.<\/p>\n

I was driving on the highway to a friend’s house one day while listening to Howard Stern.\u00a0 Pat Cooper wanted to come in, unannounced and have a segment on the show.\u00a0 Howard eventually let Mr. Cooper in and Pat Cooper went ballistic.\u00a0 He was ranting that he was a big star, that Howard said he could come any time he wanted, that he was A-List, etc.\u00a0 I was laughing so hard, I truly had to pull off to the side of the road.\u00a0 Pat Cooper was one of a kind.<\/p>\n

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Pat Cooper’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pat Cooper, the stand-up comedian and actor, died on June 6, 2023.\u00a0 He was 93. Pat Cooper, born Pasquale Caputo,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33049,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33048\/revisions\/33049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}