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ICONIC COMEDIAN HAS DIED AT AGE 67

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Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried (February 28, 1955 – April 12, 2022)

The actor and stand-up comedian died from a rare genetic muscle
disease that can trigger a dangerously abnormal heartbeat.

Gottfried began performing at only 15-years-old, has also appeared
on television shows and in movies.

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RADIO SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1926

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From left: Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll going over
the script for the popular Amos and Andy radio program.

 


On January 12, 1926, the two-man comedy series “Sam ‘n’ Henry”
debuts on Chicago’s WGN radio station. Two years later, after
changing its name to “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” the show became one of
the most popular radio programs in American history.

Though the creators and the stars of the new radio program,
Freeman Gosden and Charles Carrell, were both white, the
characters they played were two Black men from the Deep
South who moved to
Chicago to seek their fortunes. By that
time, white actors performing in dark stage makeup—or
blackface”—had been a significant tradition in American

theater for over 100 years. Gosden and Carrell, both vaudeville
performers, were doing a Chicago comedy act in blackface
when an employee at the Chicago Tribune suggested they
create a radio show.

 

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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I Love Lucy is a sitcom that originally aired on CBS-TV from October
15, 1951, to May 6, 1957,

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ACTOR CHARLES GRODIN HAS DIED AT 86

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Charles Grodin (April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021)


Grodin died from bone marrow cancer at his home in

Wilton, Connecticut.

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TV SHOW RERUNS ARE JUST AS FUNNY NOW

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The Carol Burnett Show is a variety/sketch comedy television
show starring
Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence,
and
Lyle Waggoner. In 1975, frequent guest star Tim Conway
became a regular after Waggoner left the series.

The show originally ran on CBS-TV from September 11, 1967,
to March 29, 1978, for 279 episodes, and with nine episodes
in the fall of 1991. 
 
The series won 25 primetime Emmy Awards. In 2013, TV Guide
ranked The Carol Burnett Show number 17 on its list of the 60
Greatest Shows of All Time, and in 2007 it was included on the
list of Time‘s 100 Best TV Shows of All Time.

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                             How Carol Burnett Does Her Legendary ‘Tarzan’ Yell

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Carol will be 88 April 26.

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