Anyone else remember him? He used to appear occasionally on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

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Irwin Corey, the comic maestro who endeared himself to generations of audiences as the World’s Foremost Authority, whose nonsensical monologues aped blowhard pundits, pompous academics and other know-it-alls, died Feb. 6 at his home in Manhattan. He was 102.

His son, painter, songwriter, singer and comedian Richard Corey, quipped that his father died “peacefully, at home, surrounded by his son.”

Under the moniker Professor Corey, the self-described rebel comedian spent eight decades perfecting a mock-intellectual routine laced with malapropisms and non sequiturs.

“Protocol takes precedence over procedure,” he quipped in a typical self-satisfied insight.

Such fractured wisdom earned him requests to perform his act on radio and television news shows.

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