Enter Laughing

…debut with the feature film Enter Laughing, an adaptation of his semiautobiographical novel (1958), which had earlier been made into a Broadway play (1963–64). He then worked with Van Dyke on The Comic (1969), an intermittently successful homage to the silent-screen comics. Better was Where’s Poppa? (1970), a daring black…

…appearance was in the film Enter Laughing (1967), his father’s directorial debut. He had previously acted in a stock production of the stage version, based on the elder Reiner’s memoir. After Tommy Smothers saw him perform with The Committee, he was hired as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy…