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  Best remembered as one of the players on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.  He did the German soldier who said "Very Interesting."  He also did the skits involving the dirty old man Tyrone trying to seduce Ruth Buzzi's homely lady.  More entertaining than quite a few others on there including Joann Worley and Goldi Hawn.

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RIP, many laughs for my very early years in life, raised by the TV

 

the best tribute to your work was getting Michael Corleone to croak and fall off his seat at the end of  Godfather 3, just like you did when Ruth hit you with the purse.

 

 duh-duh  duh-duh-duh-duh

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, bbb said:

A lot of celebrities dying lately who I thought were dead already - since I hadn't heard anything about them in 40 years.  

 

I was shocked when Sid Caesar died a few years ago.

 

G.B. Shaw and Harry Truman also lived a long time after they were not public figures.

 

 

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3 hours ago, row_33 said:

 

I was shocked when Sid Caesar died a few years ago.

 

G.B. Shaw and Harry Truman also lived a long time after they were not public figures.

 

 

Lee Iacocca surprised me the other day. 

 

RIP Arte, loved Laugh-In when I was a little kid.

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15 minutes ago, Rico said:

Lee Iacocca surprised me the other day. 

 

RIP Arte, loved Laugh-In when I was a little kid.

 

Lee kinda showed he had lost it by blaming every problem in his life to a conspiracy by the Ford family to destroy him....

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4 minutes ago, stuvian said:

I loved Laugh In and this era of comedy

 

 Imagine the outrage of the millennials every ten seconds of Laugh In if it ran in 2019, and we’d have to hear all about it nonstop....

 

 

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10 hours ago, Rico said:

Lee Iacocca surprised me the other day. 

 

RIP Arte, loved Laugh-In when I was a little kid.

  Probably should give Lee his own thread since most will not look here.  Thanks for mentioning Iococca's passing.

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I remember his last TV/video performance.

It was classic Artie voice playing Virman Vundabar, one of Darkseid's colorful stooges on Justice League Unlimited.

 

Virman Vundabar : Kalibak, Kalibak, Kalibak... I have used every vile punishment, every known torture and still you refuse to join Virman Vundabar's noble cause.

Kalibak : You're about as noble as my armpit.

Virman Vundabar : Very well. You've forced me to my last resort...

[from behind his back he brings out a-] 

Virman Vundabar : Cake!

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