Plainview Resident, 90, Returns To Governor's Stand-Up Stage

LEVITTOWN, NY — Plainview resident Beverly Munter is checking off performing from her bucket list, again.

The soon-to-be 91-year-old recently completed the Governor's Comedy Club stand-up classes, and this Sunday at 3 p.m. she'll "graduate" with a short routine for the audience.

This is Munter's second time building up her comedy chops at the Levittown location. She took the same route at Governor's in 2016.

Despite illnesses and aging, Munter sounds as spry as someone decades her junior.

"I think it's my age that everyone's astounded with," Munter told Patch. "I'm very active."

While performing comedy is relatively new for her, Munter always enjoyed speaking to groups, including hosting corporate roasts at her old job as an executive in Hicksville.

Years ago, after her husband died, she was lecturing at libraries on how to find a new life.

She did that on the dating front, going out with 43 men, but number 44 (how he's labeled in her act) stuck. They are together for 19 years.

Munter also said she uses her life experiences to poke fun.

"I don't say jokes like most comedians. I just tell things that I've been through and make them into comical items," she said.

Munter had an entertaining family. Her mother was a professional tango dancer at the Apollo Theater. As a traveling salesman, her father kept jokes on index cards. His brother was in vaudeville, while his mother was in Yiddish Theater.

"So I guess I inherited something," Munter said.

Whether standing in line in a store, or laid up in a hospital bed, Munter is telling jokes.

"I talk to people wherever I go, make friends [and] make them laugh," she said. "I guess that's my nature."

Like any good comic, she loves making people laugh "and shock them," Munter said. "It's unusual to hear someone with my potty mouth. It just falls off my tongue, unfortunately."