While Ernie and Bert—and therefore Jim and Oz—would come to be almost universally hailed as a comedic duo on the same upper stratum as Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, or Burns and Allen, Oz never really thought of Jim and himself as a comedy team. “We were two people so in tune with each other that we didn’t have to say anything to communicate,” Oz said. “We’d get done with a take and we’d look at each other and we both knew without saying anything that we’d have to do it again, and we both knew why. That was the special bond we had.” They didn’t make comedy, said Oz; instead, “we
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