Alan Irwin Abel was an American hoaxer, writer, and mockumentary filmmaker famous for several hoaxes that became media circuses.
12 Facts About Alan Abel
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Alan Abel himself appeared on The Mike Douglas Show to discuss the SINA mission.
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Yetta Bronstein, a fictional housewife and mother of one concocted by Alan Abel, was a write-in candidate for President of the United States in both 1964 and 1968.
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In 1979, Alan Abel staged his own death from a heart attack near the Sundance Ski Lodge.
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On January 3,1980, Alan Abel held a news conference to announce, "[the] reports of my demise have been grossly exaggerated".
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Alan Abel was behind one of the most talked-about incidents in The Phil Donahue Show's history on January 21,1985, soon after the show's well-publicized move of its operations from Chicago to WNBC New York.
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Alan Abel eventually cleared the studio of audience members and then resumed the show.
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The fainting "spell" turned out to have been cooked up by Alan Abel in what he said was a protest against poor-quality television.
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In 1997, Alan Abel launched CGS Productions to promote gift-wrapped pint jars of Jenny McCarthy's urine.
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Alan Abel once ran for Congress on a platform that included paying congressmen based on commission; selling ambassadorships to the highest bidder; installing a lie detector in the White House and truth serum in the Senate drinking fountain; requiring all doctors to publish their medical-school grade point average in the telephone book after their names; and removing Wednesday to establish a four-day workweek.
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In 1999, Alan Abel appeared in the documentary Private Dicks: Men Exposed, in which he claimed to be the current holder of the Guinness World Record for the smallest penis.
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Alan Abel died on September 14,2018, at his home in Southbury, Connecticut, from complications of cancer and heart failure.