Comic Charlie Williams dies at 78
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Pioneering comedian Charlie Williams, who found fame on hit 1970s TV show The Comedians, dies aged 78.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of  U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"  for nearly 30 years, died on Sunday at age 79 after a long  battle with emphysema.
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Rodney Dangerfield, who forged a comic career out of the self-mocking admission &quot;I don&#39;t get no respect,&quot; died Tuesday at UCLA Medical Center in Westwood from a stroke and other complications following heart valve replacement surgery in August.
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Emlyn Hughes, the former England and Liverpool captain whose distinctive voice and infectious laugh endeared him to a generation of television viewers on A Question of Sport, died yesterday from a brain tumour at the age of 57.
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Controversial comedian Bernard Manning dies at the age of 76, his venue in Manchester confirms.
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Jan Murray, one of the fabled generation of comics who rose from the Catskills to prime time TV, tickling fans of the 1950s game show &quot;Treasure Hunt,&quot; has died. He was 89.
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Billy Walker, the Grand Ole Opry legend whose hits included &quot;Charlie&#039;s Shoes&quot; and &quot;Cross the Brazos at Waco,&quot; died in a wreck along an Alabama interstate on Sunday. He was 77.
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Veteran US comedian Rodney Dangerfield is in intensive care in hospital more than a week after having heart surgery. Dangerfield, 82, one of the leading US comics from the 1960s-80s, had heart valve replacement
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Comic actor Charles Nelson Reilly, a lauded Broadway performer and campy game show guest in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in Los Angeles, a representative for the actor said on Monday.
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Television entertainer Johnny Carson  has died of emphysema at age 79, the NBC television network  reported on its Web site Sunday.
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Will Eisner, a master of American comics and a pioneer of the graphic novel who gave his name to the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars, has died at age 87, his publisher said on Tuesday.
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Legendary television entertainer Johnny Carson has died of emphysema at age 79, the NBC television network reported on its Web site on Sunday.
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Legendary TV star Johnny Carson dies at the age of 79, after battling the respiratory disease emphysema.
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US comedian Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," dies at the age of 89.
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Rodney Dangerfield, the famously self-deprecating comedian, died Tuesday at the age of 82. He had been in a coma after undergoing heart valve replacement surgery in August.
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How do you defang and declaw caustic standup comic and commentator Lewis Black? Stick him in a PG-rated holiday family movie, then stand back and watch the laughs not pile up.
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The psychiatrist and broadcaster Professor Anthony Clare has died suddenly at the age of 64.