Abraham Elieser Adolph Schönberg[1][2][3][4][5] (May 12, 1868 – August 12, 1949), known as Al Shean, was a comedian and vaudeville performer.

[7] Shean was born in Dornum, Kingdom of Prussia on May 12, 1868, the son of Fanny and Levi or Louis Schoenberg.

After their act's final Ziegfeld Follies pairing, Shean went on to perform solo in eight Broadway shows, even playing the title character in Father Malachy's Miracle.

He and Gallagher also made an early sound film at the Theodore Case studio in Auburn, New York, in 1925.

[10] Shean is reputed to have written the Marx Brothers' first (moderately) successful vaudeville sketch on butcher paper at Minnie and Frenchie's kitchen table one night while he was visiting.