Del Close

Person · Open Library

Works

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1934-03-09

Active to

1999-03-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,388

Total plays

7,005

Del Close and colleague John Brent were a comedy team who recorded the 1959 beatnik parody album How To Speak Hip for Chicago based Mercury Records. Later on Close befriended and worked with Lenny Bruce, Wavy Gravy, the Grateful Dead, and the Merry Pranksters. As director of Chicago's infamous Second City improv troupe, Close mentored and inspired many of the country's greatest comedic talents including John Belushi, Bill Murray and Chris Farley before his death in 1999. His life and work are

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 22,173x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,412x

3. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,443x

4. A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data

   · 2011 · cited 10,548x

5. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

   · 2018 · cited 9,393x

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