Rip Taylor, the comedian who became a television game show mainstay in the 1970s, has died. He was 84.
Rip Taylor, the madcap mustached comedian with a fondness for confetti-throwing who became a television game show mainstay in the 1970s, has died. He was 84.The man who would become known worldwide as Rip did not have a direct line into show business. He was born Charles Elmer Taylor Jr. in Washington, D.C., to a waitress and a musician and first worked as a congressional page before serving in the Army during the Korean War, where he started performing standup.
"I sat on a stool telling jokes, and nobody was laughing," he told UPI in 1992."In desperation, I pretended to cry as I begged them to laugh. That killed 'em."Although he readily admitted stealing jokes from USO shows, the crying comedian bit got him to Ed Sullivan, where the host — forgetting Taylor's name — would say"get me the crying comedian."
In his over five decades in entertainment, Taylor would make over 2,000 guest star appearances on shows like"The Monkees," ''The Merv Griffin Show," ''The Tonight Show," ''Late Night with David Letterman," ''Hollywood Squares" and"The Gong Show." He also hosted the beauty pageant spoof"The $1.98 Beauty Show."
Taylor also did a fair share of voice work for animated films and television like"The Jetsons" and"The Addams Family," as Uncle Fester, which earned him an Emmy nomination.
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