Les Malloy was a disc jockey with a folksy garrulous style. He was best known in recent years for his "Freeway Funnies," an afternoon commute program of vintage comedy that ran on tiny KEST radio for 20 years.

Born in 1915, the son of a San Franciso policeman, his radio career began in 1934, when at the age of 16, he started at a San Francisco radio station called KGTT.

By the 1940's, Les was one of the city's pre-eminent disc jockeys, spinning records on as many as three radio stations a week, including KGO, KYA & KFRC.

During the 1950's, he graduated to television, hosting the "Les Malloy Show" on KGO-TV, a precursor to the "The Tonight Show," and other variety programs. He was famous for demanding that the cameras focus on his guests instead of himself.