Hiram Kasten, a comic well-known throughout the New York comedy membership circuit and in exhibits similar to Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld and The Recent Prince of Bel-Air, has died. He was 71.
Kasten died in his dwelling in Batavia, New York, after seven years of combating a number of sicknesses, together with prostate most cancers and Crohn’s illness, an obituary in his native paper The Batavian reported.
Kasten was a daily comic at New York’s Comedian Strip, the place he met then-MC Jerry Seinfeld and the 2 finally turned pals.
He additionally made common appearances at Catch a Rising Star, The Improv, The Comedy Cellar and Caroline’s all through the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties. At Dangerfield’s, he ran his personal present on Sunday nights for a few years.
Within the late Nineteen Eighties, Kasten moved to Los Angeles and finally appeared in exhibits similar to Mad About You, All people Loves Raymond, Curb Your Enthusiasm, seventh Heaven, Brooklyn Bridge, The Recent Prince of Bel-Air, My Spouse and Youngsters, Males of a Sure Age, Cybill and L.A. Regulation. In Seinfeld, he performed Michael, a coworker of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Elaine.
He additionally landed a present at Las Vegas’ Desert Inn titled The Rat Pack is Again, and later traveled the world along with his comedy by way of Seabourn, Royal Viking and Princess cruise traces.
Kasten was born Hiram Z. Kastenbaum within the Bronx. He all the time dreamed of changing into an actor.
Survivors embrace his spouse, Diana Kisiel Kastenbaum, his daughter, Millicent Jade, his brother-in-law, Kevin John Kisiel, and plenty of nieces, nephews and cousins. Kasten died the day after he and Diana’s thirty eighth marriage ceremony anniversary.
Funeral providers are set to be held at Schwartz Brothers-Jeffers Memorial Chapel in Forest Hills, New York. A memorial service can be held in Los Angeles later this summer season. The household has requested anybody eager to make a memorial tribute to take action by way of charitable donation to Crossroads Home or the Leisure Neighborhood Fund (previously The Actors Fund).