Ed Danahue

  Marcia Karen Wallace (November 1, 1942 – October 25, 2013)

LOS ANGELES (AP) –  Marcia Wallace, the voice of scoffing schoolteacher
Edna Krabappel on "The Simpsons," whose wise-cracking characters on
"The Bob Newhart Show" and other prime-time hits endeared her to many 
generations of TV viewers, has died.

"Simpsons" executive producer Al Jean called said in a statement Saturday
that her "irreplaceable character," the fourth-grade teacher who contended
with Bart Simpson’s constant antics, would be retired from the show.

“Simpsons” character, Edna Krabappel

Wallace as Carol Kester, The Bob Newhart Show

Ross Simpson

John Cleese, 2 years old

 
John Marwood Cleese is 74 today

Carol Burnett, the 2013 Mark Twain Prize recipient

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Carol Burnett launched her namesake variety
show in the 1960s, one TV executive told her the genre was "a man’s game”,
but she proved him wrong with an 11-year run that averaged 30 million viewers
each week.

This evening, the trailblazing comedienne will receive the nation’s top humor
prize at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Top entertainers including
Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will pay tribute to Burnett
as she receives the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

The 16th annual show will be taped and broadcast Sunday, Nov. 24 on most PBS 
stations.

 
The series aired on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978

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Jan Murry (Murray Janofsky) (October 4, 1916 – July 2, 2006)

Murry was a stand-up comedian and actor who also hosted several
television game shows.

Dollar a Second was a comedy game show hosted by Jan Murray which
originally aired from September 20, 1953 to June 14, 1954 on the DuMont
Television Network. It was sponsored by Mogen David Wine.