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Comedian Jonathan Winters Dies at 87

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He was a genius, and was troubled with mental illness.

Comedian Jonathan Winters Dies at 87

Jonathan Winters, the rubber-faced comedian whose unscripted flights of fancy inspired a generation of improvisational comics, and who kept television audiences in stitches with Main Street characters like Maude Frickert, a sweet-seeming grandmother with a barbed tongue and a roving eye, died on Thursday. He was 87.

A family friend, Joe Petro III, said he died Thursday evening at his home in Montecito, Calif., The Associated Press reported.
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