George Carl (7 May 1916 – 1 January 2000) was a vaudevillian style comic, clown and eccentric dancer.
Carl was born in Ohio, and he started his comedy career traveling with a variety of circuses during his teenage years.
With hardly any props,[1] except for a microphone, a mic stand, his hat, and sometimes a harmonica, Carl would seemingly accidentally become tangled up in the mic cord,[2] get his thumb stuck in the microphone stand and, through a flurry of silent bits, wind up accomplishing nothing at all in the time spent onstage.
At the age of 79, Carl made his screen debut in the 1995 film Funny Bones starring Jerry Lewis.
Comedians using similar visual material include Charlie Frye, Bill Irwin, Geoff Hoyle, Barry Lubin, Chipper Lowell, Peter Shub, Rob Torres, Dandy Danno and Avner the Eccentric.