If you’re one of those people who watches Seinfeld on cable while you’re eating dinner, look closely at the episode airing on WTBS tonight at 6pm. (It’s the one where Kramer decides that butter makes a good shaving cream.) The old guy playing “McMaines” is Everett Greenbaum, a native of Buffalo who became a successful comedy writer. He created the hit 1950s series “Mr. Peepers,” starring Wally Cox and Tony Randall, and wrote numerous scripts for “M*A*S*H,” “The Real McCoys,” “”The Andy Griffith Show,” and “Sanford and Son.” He was a creative consultant on “Matlock,” and wrote a number of films for Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. In the decade prior to his death in 1997 he also appeared as an actor on sitcoms like “3rd Rock from the Sun,” “Grace Under Fire,” and “Ellen.” You can check out the rest of his career at imdb.com

Everett Greenbaum will be one of the recipients of the first Al Boasberg Comedy Awards, named after the Buffalo native who was one of the most influential comedy writers of the 20th century, having had a hand in steering the careers of the Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, the Three Stooges, Bob Hope, Jack Benny and many others. The Awards will be presented as part of the Buffalo International Film Festival this month; you can read more about them in this week’s ArtVoice.

You can also watch this interview with Everett Greenbaum: