I want to note the death May 1 of comic Ruth Buzzi, a fixture on the late sixties/early seventies show Laugh-In and later on, Sesame Street. She was 88 years old and died at her home in Texas, according to her agent.
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Part of an all-star ensemble on a show that claimed a definitive role in the cultural zeitgeist, Buzzi appeared on "Laugh-In" from 1968 to 1973, earning a Golden Globe for best supporting actress in a series, miniseries, or motion picture made for television as well as several Emmy nominations in the process.
The show, replete with flower-power aesthetics and a raunchy sensibility, showed off Buzzi's knack for physical comedy above the neck, her characters often contorting their faces for the sake of caricature.
Ruth was born in Westerly, Rhode Island, in 1936. Her husband Kent Perkins, who married her in 1978, survives her.
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