Street Interviews: Dana and Hungarian-Jewish Descent

street interviews: He was 92, according to CTV. Early in his career, Dana wrote jokes for Don Adams and Steve Allen, on whose show he served as head writer and a member of the performing troupe. Dana died Thursday at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, according to Emerson College, his alma mater. Born William Szathmary and a Massachusetts native of Hungarian-Jewish descent, Dana first appeared as Mexican immigrant Jimenez in a 1959 edition of The Steve Allen Show. Introducing himself in broken English, Jose Jimenez cracked up the studio audience and convinced Dana that he had a hit on his hands. It was for one of the show's Man on the Street interviews conducted by fellow cast member Pat Harrington Jr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.