Plastics ain't what it used to be anymore....
Posted on 01/09/2020 9:56:13 AM PST by Red Badger
An unassuming screenwriter and actor, Mr. Henry thought up quirky characters with Mel Brooks and inhabited many more on “Saturday Night Live.”
Buck Henry, a writer and actor who exerted an often overlooked but potent influence on television and movie comedy — creating the loopy prime-time spy spoof “Get Smart” with Mel Brooks, writing the script for Mike Nichols’s landmark social satire “The Graduate” and teaming up with John Belushi in the famous samurai sketches on “Saturday Night Live” — died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 89.
A friend, Dianne V. Lawrence, said Mr. Henry’s wife, Irene Ramp, had called her to tell her of the death. Ms. Ramp told The Washington Post that the cause was a heart attack. The entertainment news site Deadline said he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, citing an unidentified family member.
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“I don’t think Uncle Roy would pass muster these day”
I was thinking the same thing.
I remember that skit. Laughed till I fell on the floor.
Call his other shoe
Sorry about that Chief
I would have, but I was told that it was a party line.
His short with Steve Martin and Terri Garr, “The Absent Minded Waiter” was genius.
Remember when it got cut on his head during SNL skit. Everyone on the show wore bandages on their foreheads the rest of the show.
Thanks for the laughs.
“I will now do my impression of a man who has red hot needles jammed into his eyes.”.........
That character still gives me the creeps.
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