Red Buttons was born Aaron Chwatt on February 5, 1919, in New York City, to Jewish immigrants on New York City's Lower East Side.
He became a performer after winning an amateur contest at age 12. Six
years later he was a singing bellboy in a Bronx tavern. His stage name came from the red buttons on his bellboy uniform.
A talented and versatile performer of stage, screen, and television,
Buttons was equally at home in dramatic or comedic roles, but it was as a
burlesque comedian working in the Catskills Mountains that he first
made a name for himself. Buttons appeared in plays on Broadway and in movies.
Buttons, the comedian who became known at celebrity roasts for his "never got a dinner" speech, delivered a variation on this speech as "Never played this theater" at a Just For Laughs comedy night in 1978,
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