Perry Kurtz, a Los Angeles comic who appeared on season eight of America’s Acquired Expertise in addition to on The Late Late Present with James Corden, has died in a hit-and-run collision. He was 73.
Kurts died Thursday when he was struck by a Honda Civic in Tarzana round 11:20 p.m., per the Los Angeles Police Division. His loss of life was later confirmed by the L.A. Nation Medical Examiner’s Workplace, the reason for loss of life deemed to be blunt power accidents.
LAPD arrested 18-year-old Nathan Jaimes in reference to the hit-and-run.
Kurtz auditioned for AGT within the sixth episode of season eight in 2006. He carried out a rap in regards to the then-judges, Howard Stern, Heidi Klum and Mel B. None voted for him, and he was eradicated in the identical spherical.
Per IMDb, he carried out on The Tonight Present with Jay Leno in 2014 and on The Late Late Present with James Corden in 2018.
Perry Kurtz instructed Shoutout LA in 2022 that he grew up in Philadelphia and moved to San Francisco in 1979. “I’m a full-time, working comic. I’ve by no means had a day job and have solely made cash making folks chuckle,” he instructed the outlet.
Within the ’80s, he traveled throughout the USA and Canada performing, after which moved to Los Angeles in 1989. Quickly after, he turned a paid common on the Comedy Retailer, the place his title now seems on the facet of the constructing.
An inventory of survivors was not instantly accessible, although his daughter, Zelda Velazquez, confirmed his loss of life to the New York Instances.