In 1941, musical comedian Bob Burns was given his own radio show, called “The 
Arkansas Traveler on CBS radio. The show was renamed “The Bob Burns Show” 
in 1943 and ran until 1947. The comedy show featured Burns playing the bazooke  
(above) and telling tall tales about mythical hillbilly relatives like Uncle Fud and  
Aunt Doody.The music of Spike Jones was also featured often.

            Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996)

The French-born actress began her career in Broadway productions during the 
1920s, progressing to film and talking pictures. She had a successful film career 
with Paramount Pictures, and is recognized as one of the leading ladies of comedy 
movies. Colbert was the highest paid actress in American cinema during the late 
1930s. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her comedic performance
in It Happened One Night (1934), and also received Academy Award nominations
for her dramatic roles in Private Worlds (1935), and Since You Went Away (1944).  

Colbert retired from film in 1961 and in 1999, the American Film Institute placed her 
at number twelve on their "AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Stars" list of the "50 Greatest
American Screen Legends".

January 1937

1958

Emmy award winning comedian Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar is best
known for the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and
Caesar’s Hour,

            Phyllis Diller (July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012)

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who
aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with
her trademark cackle, died Monday morning in her Los Angeles home. 

"She died peacefully in her sleep and with a smile on her face," said her
longtime manager, Milton Suchin.

Diller, who suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 1999, was found by her
son, Perry Diller. The cause of her death has not been released.