Short Takes : Jonathan Winters Gets Serious
From Times Wire Services
NEW YORK —
Comedian Jonathan Winters, who plays the father of a high school principal in ABC’s new comedy “Davis Rules,” says he was too neurotic as a child to be funny.
“I had an old man who had the longest finger of any man I’d ever known,” Winters, 65, recalled in an interview in People magazine’s Feb. 11 issue. “He’d point at me and say, ‘You’re dumb!’ That really helps as a kid.”
His parents divorced when he was 7.
“I had a tough time,” he added. “I was full of neuroses and complexes. I wasn’t the class clown.”
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