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Mr. Dana had been writing for television for several years and performing in nightclubs for nearly a decade when, in 1959, he created Jos, who appeared for the first time in a sketch on “The Steve Allen Show.” The conceit of the sketch was that Jos, whose first language was clearly not English, worked as an instructor of department store Santa Clauses. (“Ho ho ho” was written on his blackboard as “Jo jo jo.”) The sketch introduced his signature line, “My name Jos Jimnez,” which Mr. Dana delivered with such a canada goose uk black friday heavy accent that it came out ” My naing o ZAY Ee MAY nez.”

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Canada Goose Jackets Bill Dana was born William Szathmary in Quincy, Mass., on Oct. 5, 1924, the youngest of six children. His father, Joseph, a real estate developer, was an immigrant from Hungary; his mother worked in a millinery shop. Her name was Dena, and when Bill Szathmary changed his name early in his show business career, buy canada goose jacket he chose a near homonym to honor her. Canada Goose Jackets

Mr. Dana served in the infantry in Europe during World War II, and when he returned he graduated from Emerson with a degree in speech and drama. He worked as a page at NBC in Manhattan and formed a comedy team with a college friend, Gene Wood, who later became a successful television announcer. He also wrote material for comics, including a young contemporary, Don Adams, for whom Mr. Dana invented the joke formula that began, “Would you believe?” and that would later become part of Mr. Adams’s shtick as the secret agent Maxwell Smart in the sitcom “Get Smart.”

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In today’s more sensitive times, the popularity of Jos Jimnez may be hard to fathom. But Mr. Dana performed the character at, among other places, an inaugural eve gala for President John F. Kennedy.

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