#Rowan and Martin's Laugh In

[megan-the-artoonist]

Ruth became a favorite of mine in the past few years. I had the amazing opportunity to communicate with her on social media and by mail, and was honored that she loved my art and shared it often. Many friends have reached out to me today because they hear her name and think of me, so I had to make my tribute special.

[citizenscreen]

Goldie Hawn, Ruth Buzzi, and Judy Carne working on NBC’s “Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In” in 1969.

[cleopatragirlie]

❀ 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧'𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐈𝐧 ❀

[kwebtv]

Ruth Ann Buzzi (/ˈbʌzi/ BUZZY; July 24, 1936 – May 1, 2025) Actress and comedienne who appeared on stage, in films, and on television. She is best known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973, for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received five Emmy nominations.

Her first national recognition on television came on The Garry Moore Show in 1964, shortly after Carol Burnett was replaced by Dorothy Loudon on the series. She performed as "Shakundala the Silent", a bumbling magician's assistant to her comedy partner Dom DeLuise, who played "Dominic the Great". Buzzi was a member of the regular repertory company on the CBS variety show The Entertainers (1964–65). 

In 1967, Buzzi appeared in all eight episodes of The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, a variety series starring Steve Allen. Her character parts in the Allen sketches led her to be cast for NBC's new show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. She was the only featured player to appear in every episode of Laugh-In including the pilot for the show and the Laugh-In television special. Among her recurring characters on Laugh-In were Flicker Farkle, youngest of the Farkle family; Busy-Buzzi, a Hedda Hopper-type Hollywood gossip columnist; Doris Swizzler, a cocktail-lounge habituée who always got smashed with husband Leonard (Dick Martin); and one of the Burbank Airlines Stewardesses, inconsiderate flight attendants.

She was widely known for her role as "spinster" Gladys Ormphby, clad in drab brown with her bun hairdo covered by a visible hairnet knotted in the middle of her forehead. Buzzi first used this look when she played Agnes Gooch in a school production of Auntie Mame. In most sketches, she used her purse as a weapon, with which she would flail away vigorously at anyone who incurred her wrath. She most often was the unwilling object of the advances of Arte Johnson's "dirty old man" character Tyrone F. Horneigh. NBC collectively called these two characters The Nitwits when they went to animation in the mid-1970s as part of the series Baggy Pants and the Nitwits. Buzzi and Johnson both voiced their respective roles in the cartoon.

Buzzi was featured as Gladys in many of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts from the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, ranting about notable roastees including Muhammad Ali, Frank Sinatra, and Lucille Ball. In each case, Gladys pugnaciously attacked the honoree with her purse, and she would also hit Martin when he made disparaging remarks about her looks and her romantic prospects.

Buzzi was featured as a semi-regular on the comedy That Girl as Marlo Thomas's friend Margie "Pete" Peterson. She starred with Jim Nabors as the time-traveling androids Fi and Fum in The Lost Saucer produced by Sid and Marty Krofft which aired from September 11, 1975, until September 2, 1976 (16 episodes).

In 1979, she co-starred on the Canadian children's comedy show You Can't Do That on Television (also known as Whatever Turns You On).

Buzzi was a guest star on many television series, including Donny & Marie, The Flip Wilson Show, The Dean Martin Music and Comedy Hour, the Dean Martin Roasts, The Carol Burnett Show, Tony Orlando and Dawn, The Monkees, Emergency!, and variety series hosted by Leslie Uggams and Glen Campbell. She also appeared occasionally on game shows and was a celebrity judge on The Gong Show. She appeared in Lucille Ball's last comedy Life with Lucy as Mrs. Wilcox in the episode "Lucy Makes a Hit with John Ritter". She appeared eight times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and made more than 200 other television guest appearances.

She joined the cast of Sesame Street in 1993 as shopkeeper, Ruthie, as part of the "Around the Corner" set expansion. (Wikipedia)

IMDb Listing

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Goldie Hawn (c.1968)

[joegramoe]

Goldie Hawn And Dolly Parton!

[cyb3rluvvxx]

how i pop out of nowhere to post once in a while

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

I have a feeling I'm gonna be using this gif so fucking often.... 😆

[megan-the-artoonist]

Commission for Will (instagram toonheads0215)! Will is developing a Jungle Book pitch with some fun new characters for Mowgli’s world. My interest in Laugh-In inspired him to write in a trio of vulture girls based on Ruth, Goldie, and Jo Anne.

[greensparty]

Remembering Ruth Buzzi 1936-2025

Actress Ruth Buzzi has died at 88. She was very noteworthy for work on TV's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC 1967-1973), movies like Freaky Friday, and small roles in You Can't Do That on Television.

From 1993-2008 she played Ruthie on Sesame Street. As someone who grew up watching Sesame Street as a little kid, it’s sad to see Buzzi and a number of Sesame Street cast members have passed away in recent years like Bob McGrath, Emilio Delgado, Carol Spinney and co-creator Lloyd Morrisett.

The link above is the obit from USA Today.

[neuroticphysiologist]

there's this trend on tiktok called the "core trend". i created a rod serling core video and it's basically about him... and his funny side.

[missanthropicprinciple]

“I love everything about you English, especially your muffins.” 

“Thank you very much, my dear. I feel the same way about you.”

[dannyslayeee]

[misquotedmosquito]

[justsomeguy-cassavetes]

save me danny kaye smooching henry gibson on laugh-in save meeeee

[radmalenia]

I grew up watching a lot of both Gmod and SFM animations (all about TF2), starting when I got internet access and began both gaming and watching youtube almost fifteen years ago now. Before that, I had watched a lot of Loonytoons cartoons; because my parents had a huge collection of them on DVD and they'd often put them on for me.

And yeah. It's all the same brainrot, just different iterations and evolutions. I don't know how I'd possibly explain something like "heavy is dead" to someone not only twenty years older than me, but also completely out of the loop of both PC gaming and youtube video culture. And I myself was very baffled by the skibidi toilet stuff and thought it to be immature, annoying, and weird; the one time I curiously watched some of it a few months ago.

Basically, every new generation of kids take The Brainrot (this special kind of brainrot that is fun and mostly harmless;) and they create their own memes and tomfoolery with it. Their own inside jokes and their own lore. And the generations above them get to be confused and annoyed by it, just like theirs were with them when they were kids; and so the natural cycle of childhood sillyness continues.

"skibidi toilet is ruining gen alpha" do none of you people remember asdf. i remember asdf.