The career of Buck Henry is an extremely rare one. Penning the groundbreaking The Graduate, hosting SNL in the early days, co-creating Get Smart, and writing the hysterical Barbara Streisand vehicle, What’s Up Doc?, comprise such a rich and varied career of all sorts of comedy in all different sorts of formats. 

In that way, Henry was kind of ahead of his time, not pigeon-holing himself to any one sort of style, genre, or place. Thus, take a moment (or go watch any of his work) to pay homage to his memory as he passed away today.