but it's meaningless now. They say the show must go on, but why must it? Let's close the show now by praying for this wonderful man backstage who has made a world laugh." Despite two hours of continuous resuscitation attempts by the physician volunteers and a rescue squad, Einstein was pronounced dead at 1:20 a.m. on November 24. The news of his death was the Los Angeles Times''' front-page headline later that morning. Einstein's funeral service was attended by 300 mourners. After a eulogy by George Jessel, Einstein was buried in Home of Peace mausoleum in Los Angeles. Aftermath The argument has been made that Albert Brooks, who was 11 years old when Einstein died, has dealt with the trauma of his father's passing through vignettes in his movies. For example, early in Defending Your Life (1991), Brooks’s recently deceased character, Daniel Miller, finds himself in an afterlife nightclub, watching a terrible comedian. "How’d you die?" the comic asks him; Albert replies, "Onstage, like you." Later, Meryl Streep's character invites Albert to leave with her. "I can’t," he says, gesturing toward the stage. "That’s my father." In the Season 9 episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, "It's Not So Funny When It's Your Mother," his son Bob Einstein tells host Jerry Seinfeld that the incident of his father dying on-stage at the Friars Club roast, when Bob Einstein was 16 years old, turned him off from performing for many years. Specifically, he was highly offended by the fact that both Milton Berle and George Jessel performed their comedy routines as eulogies at Harry Einstein's funeral, feeling it was insensitive, and this made him uncomfortable with comedy. The episode featured an excerpt, covering the events of Harry Einstein's passing, from the documentary film Let Me In, I Hear Laughter - A Salute To The Friars Club directed by Dean Ward (screenwriter). Family Einstein was the father of four sons: the writer Charles Einstein (by his first marriage to Lillian Anshen), and comedians Albert Brooks and Bob Einstein, and advertising executive Clifford Einstein (with his second wife, actress Thelma Leeds). Harry and Lillian divorced in 1929. Filmography Strike Me Pink (1936) - Parkyakarkus (credited as Parkyakarkus) New Faces of 1937 (1937) - Parky (credited as Parkyakarkus) The Life of the Party (1937) - Parky (credited as Parkyakarkus) She's Got Everything (1937) - Nick Zyteras (credited as Parkyakarkus) Night Spot (1938) -