Kenny Kramer

[1] Kramer grew up in New York City, in the Tremont section of the Bronx, and dropped out of high school at age 17.

He sold magazines, played drums in a Catskills resort band, and had a spotty career as a stand-up comedian that lasted until 1981, when he gave up comedy to sell light-up "electronic disco jewelry" in nightclubs for a couple of years.

The two lived in Manhattan Plaza, a federally assisted apartment complex for performing artists in Hell's Kitchen, New York City.

Many of the traits of Kenny Kramer, such as the obsessions with golf, fruit, hot tubs, taking things out of the refrigerator and coming up with strange ideas and inventions, were featured in the show.

Kenny Kramer then contacted Castle Rock Entertainment with a list of demands, many of which were financial, for the use of his name.

In 2001, Kramer was asked by a television reporter about running again, and he replied that "if Jesse Ventura can be governor, why can't I be mayor?"

Kramer, and offers a "customized lifetime warranty" of providing pro bono weddings if the couple divorces.