He is well remembered for his frantic routine calling a horse race -- "It's girdle in the stretch! Locomotive is on the rail!" -- featuring his horse character Feitlebaum. He is the uncle of actress Sigourney Weaver and brother of NBC-TV executive Sylvester Weaver.
In the 1940's he was a member of Spike Jones' hilarious band called The City Slickers.
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