 Coffey apparently changed the spelling of his stage name around 1960.Coffey was also a nightclub comic, working in an act through the 1950s with Jerry Wallace.Coffey also appeared on KTTV's "The Dude Martin Show" and spent 1960 in a company of Olsen and Johnson's "Hellzapoppin", which toured the United States with the Harlem Globetrotters.