Published at: Nov. 3, 2010, 12:34 a.m. CST by hercules
I am – Hercules
Monica Johnson, who co-wrote three of the funniest movies ever made – “Real Life,” “Modern Romance” and “Lost In America” – passed away Monday in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer.
She also won an Emmy for her work on an episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and later had a hand in “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show.”
Albert Brooks may be the funniest man alive, and the idea that he recruited Johnson to help him shape his screenplays suggests she really had something.
(Her gene pool also produced her brother, Jerry Belson, the “Odd Couple” writer who scripted 1972’s “Evil Roy Slade,” possibly the funniest TV movie ever shot. Belson died of cancer in 2006.)
Johnson’s passing gives us an excuse to remember some of my favorite moments in all cinema:
“Just the idea makes me thirsty!”:
“Buy the box. You’ll like it.”:
“The bird lives in a round stick!!”:
