Jackie Kannon

After that, he toured, getting booked in such places as the Coconut Grove (Los Angeles) and The Flamingo Casino (Las Vegas) and on the Borscht Belt before getting a room of his own.

[6]) The Room, which sat 120,[7] opened in 1963 on the second floor of Morris Levy's Roundtable club on East 50th Street.

While the club was successful for years, some financial weaknesses with both it and Levy caused it to have what was intended as a temporary closure in 1969.

[9] Kannon opened a new New York City Rat Fink Room in 1972, above the restaurant Sam's on the corner of Second Avenue and East 64th Street.

This satirical adult coloring book illustrated by Mad magazine artist Mort Drucker spent 12 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and moved about a half million copies before being taken out of print in the wake of the president's assassination.

[4] Other publishing efforts included a series of books meant to be hung in the bathroom with an attached chain, starting with Poems for the John.

Mad magazine artist Sergio Aragonés drew two series of cartoon booklets for them: the Sam, the Ceiling Needs Painting featured couples in the midst of sex depicted solely by the soles of their feet, while the Fanny Hillman series depicted the Jewish head of houses of prostitution.