New York, Jan 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The comedian who charted her own course in the 1940’s and 1950’s Jean Carroll has died. She was 98 years old. Jean Carroll was born on 6th January, 1911 in Paris, and she died just 5 days short of her 99th birthday. She was a famous Jewish-American comedian during the mid-nineties. Her daughter Helen Tunick confirmed her death.

She started her career as part of a song-and-dance team with her husband, Buddy Howe. Later when Jean Carroll became a successful comedian then he became her manager. She was quite a regular visitor on the ‘Ed Sullivan Show’ and appeared on it more than 20 times. She even had her own show known as the ‘The Jean Carroll Show (Take It From Me). However her own show was quite short-lived and lasted just 1 season for 1953-1954.

5 years before in November 2006, she was honored with an evening at the Friar’s Club in New York City, where the M.C. was Joy Behar and the main speaker was Lily Tomlin. And then in 2007, Jean Carroll was featured in the Off-Broadway production, which was called The J.A.P. Show: Jewish American Princesses of Comedy. This production included live standup routines by four female Jewish comics juxtaposed with the stories of legendary performers from the 1950s and 1960s, Belle Barth, Pearl Williams and Betty Walker, Totie Fields, and Carroll herself. She was later featured in 2009 in the P.B.S. documentary, Make ‘em Laugh.