Comic performer Ruth Buzzi, who played a counterpoint to the 1960s sexual revolution for laughs as the frumpy, ...

She had other roles onstage and on TV, but none more memorable than the wary spinster fending off male advances on that ...

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Buzzi devised a series of sketch comedy characters on the show ... Buzzi encountered the heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali. As Gladys, the diminutive Buzzi ranted about Ali interfering ...

“It was just basically a little sketch of a turtle,” Poppell remembered ... celebrities like Colonel Sanders in Louisville, Muhammad Ali in Philadelphia and others. He worked at the Myrtle ...

He came from a tradition of stand-ups who leaned on character work and sketch in their acts ... his own narrative. Along with Muhammad Ali, Richard was a Black celebrity who you could argue ...

Ruth Buzzi, comedy sketch player on groundbreaking series ... the fearsome heavyweight who lost the “Rumble in the Jungle” to Muhammad Ali before his inspiring second act as a 45-year-old ...