Gravel-voiced comedian Joe E. (Oooh! Oooh!) Ross was born in Manhattan and began his career, ironically enough, as a singing waiter in speak-easy clubs. Comedy came into the forefront, however and he steadily built up his image as a stand-up and impressionist, announcing and emceeing at burlesque clubs and various niteries around and about the Schuster circuit out of Chicago in the late 1930s. He made his inauspicious film debut in the hotsy-totsy girlie show Teaserama (1955), which featured ...[Read Story]