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Pioneering comic Jonathan Winters brought his own brand of wild, improvisational stand-up to television in the 1950s, and continued to perform for nearly five decades. Winters died Thursday at the age of 87. Jeffrey Brown remembers the comedian with a…

Tributes are pouring in for comedian Jonathan Winters, who died Thursday at age 87. Watch Jim Lehrer's interview with Winters after he received the 1999 Mark Twain Prize from the Kennedy Center. This interview originally aired Oct. 21, 1999.

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On Wednesday's NewsHour: President Obama's 2014 budget proposal, which calls for changes to Social Security and Medicare, as well as tax hikes for the wealthy Then, with a Senate comproise on background checks breathing new life to a comprehensive…