He was a parody of a character on Fred Allen's show, Senator Claghorn
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Fred Allen - Wikipedia  John Florence Sullivan (May 31, 1894  March 17, 1956), known professionally as Fred Allen, .... Fred Allen's first taste of radio came while he and Portland Hoffa waited for a .... show's announcer, as bellowing Southern senator Beauregard Claghorn. ... Claghorn served as the model for the Warner Bros. cartoon character...
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Allen's Alley | Fred Allen | Old Time Radio  Responding would be Alley residents John Doe, Senator Bloat, town drunk ... Allen constantly tweaked the combination of characters that resided in the Alley to ... Usually the first door knocked on was that of Senator Claghorn. ... As part of the famous feud, Jack Benny featured a spoof on his show titled "Benny's Boulevard.
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Forgotten Laughter: The Fred Allen Story | American History Lives at ...  All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is ... (Although he retained the name Sullivan legally, he adopted Fred Allen as his stage name.) ..... and Claghorn's the nameSenator Claghorn, that isbecame national ... Moody was played by Parker Fennelly, a pioneer character actor on radio...
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Fred Allen and Senator Claghorn (Kenny Delmar) Fred Allen radio ...  Aug 13, 2011 - 2 min - Uploaded by luhuttDelmar recalled that after Warner Bros. copyrighted Foghorn Leghorn, he had to  ask their ...
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Senator Claghorn - Wikipedia  Senator Beauregard Claghorn of Charleston, South Carolina, was a popular radio character on the "Allen's Alley" segment of The Fred Allen Show, beginning ... When Allen was finally able to speak to the Senator, he would ask him a topical ... The most famous parody, which ironically has outlasted its source in public...
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J! Archive - Show #4301, aired 2003-04-21  City represented by the star seen here ... CARTOON THEME SONGS ... The call of this Australian bird, AKA the laughing jackass, is often used in films & TV to...
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J! Archive - Show #3366, aired 1999-04-05  < previous game]  Greg Germann, an actor from Ally McBeal. Jodi Applegate, a journalist ... Success in this game requires good balance & skill at tossing a stone...
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Happy Days - Neatorama  Jan 28, 2013 ... According to Garry Marshall in his book Wake Me When Its Funny: ... ABC wanted teen heartthrob Robbie Benson to play Richie, but Benson didn't ... That's when a 5' 6.5" actor named Henry Winkler -a self-described "New York ... In the script, Fonzie was supposed to wear a cloth jacket and penny loafers.
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Fred Grandy - Television Actor, U.S. Representative, Radio Talk ...  Oct 5, 2015 ... Fred Grandy played Gopher on the 1970s television show The Love Boat. ... Following his political career, Grandy kept up his commitment to...
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jeopardy/331_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  TV TRIVIA | In February 1989 this New Jersey senator was seen playing basketball on "The Cosby Show" | Bill Bradley. right: Larry. Wrong: Value: $400.
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Forgotten Laughter: The Fred Allen Story | American History Lives at ...  The other comedians  swoon at Allen, said a onetime editor of Variety, the show ... in the world who has written more than he can lift, Allen told a friend in 1944. ... wrote the famous Guzzler's Gin routine that has been a mainstay of his act ... last years, Allen died a disappointed and bitter man on St. Patrick's Day 1956.
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Comedy's Curmudgeon - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel  Jul 6, 1997 ... In the introduction to his new book, Brain Droppings, George Carlin tells us how ... So Carlin, a man who has made good money making us laugh while ranting ... ''But when you live with someone for 36 years and they supported your ... The 60-year-old comic spoke in a Philadelphia hotel one day recently,...
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1000+ ideas about Family Feud Game Show on Pinterest | Game ...  Classroom Feud PowerPoint Template - Plays Like Family Feud. ..... He's probably best remembered for his role of Corporal Peter Newkirk on ... When, you know, a Family Feud contestant said one might find a gerbil in ...... Donna Squires ... was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes, being the...
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THE POLITICIAN'S PICKUP LINES - The Washington Post  Oct 21, 1994 ... Now and then he charmingly refers to himself as "Ol' Fred." ... that CIA man Jack Ryan is not the lunatic he might appear to be, but a graduate of the ... In one movie, "Born Yesterday," he even played a U.S. senator. .... followed by a scene from the Washington thriller "No Way Out," in which he picks up the...
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TELEVISION - Lots of Political Humor, and No Morton Kondracke ...  Feb 27, 1994 ... "POLITICALLY INCORRECT," a voluble half-hour roundtable of off-the-wall ... And the host, a 38-year-old comic named Bill Maher, finds himself perhaps the ... Indeed, the show is "The McLaughlin Group on acid," says Mr. Maher ... Often his toughest chore is to keep all four panelists from talking at once.
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Fred Gwynne - Wikipedia  Frederick Hubbard "Fred" Gwynne (July 10, 1926  July 2, 1993) was an American actor. ... Shortly afterwards Phil Silvers sought him out for his television show ... character that Gwynne's Herman Munster character would later be based on. ... painted, and wrote and illustrated children's books, including It's Easy to See Why,...
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Isn't it amazing that George Carlin, gross and mouthy comedian of the  Mar 12, 2004 ... What follows is a wonderful message from George Carlin (published ..... My friends have a beautiful home, but the taxes are too high. ..... I'm taking that as an omen of a much brighter future ahead. ..... (By the way, he used to play for the Bucs and ALMOST signed with ...... O. Carol O'Connor, Essex, England.
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For 'Cheers' Actor, Art Really Doesn't Imitate Life - tribunedigital ...  Jun 16, 1992 ... John Ratzenberger Plays The Mailman Who Delivers The Laughs. ... Clavin, the character he plays on the Emmy-winning Cheers, John Ratzenberger ... the rules and regulations regarding wearing a postal uniform off-duty.
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8 Real-Life Presidential Burns That Belong on Veep | HistoryBuff ...  Apr 21, 2016 ... Veep has built a reputation for its creative profanity. ... He wrote it while he was serving under MacArthur, so clearly, Ike ... He's about the dumbest man I think I've ever run across. ... [He has] no more backbone than a chocolate eclair. There's some dispute as to whether Teddy Roosevelt actually said this.
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Pat Leahy's in The Dark Knight, But Nancy Reagan Was on Diff'rent ...  Jul 18, 2008 ... But we know the real reason: Senator Patrick Leahy. ... Bill Bradley, The Cosby Show (February 1989): Then a second-term New Jersey...
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A Tribute to The Captain - Blaines  He brought out such outlandish ... the greedy Bunny Rabbit was known to snatch any carrots away ... We simply loved Captain Kangaroo with his walrus shaped mustache ... We learned to laugh at the antics of Mr. Moose who entertained us with his jokes and would trick the Captain usually by telling a Knock, Knock joke