Joe Ancis was a good friend of stand-up comedians
Rodney Dangerfield and
Lenny Bruce who called him 'the funniest man in America'.
Ancis was an inspiration for them and several other comedians although he was too shy to get on stage himself.
Lenny Bruce once admitted that he owed maybe a third of his act to Joe Ancis.
According to Albert Goldman, author of the biography 'Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce!' the humor of Ancis involved stream-of-consciousness sexual fantasies, references to jazz, and stories of Jewish domesticity.
Apart from this short biography, not much is known about the life of Joe Ancis.
