Howard created My Friend Irma, a top-rated, long-running radio situation comedy and media franchise.
[1] He won a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for the television program The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
[5] Howard worked at CBS for nine years, leaving in 1953 after he was unable to reach a contract agreement with that network.
CBS had agreed to pay him more than $1 million "over a term of years", but demanded exclusive rights to his work.
[6] Howard died in April 1993 of heart failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 77.