He was also the first stand-up comedian to appear on “The Jon Stewart Show.”
Emmy Awards
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Great Emmy winners who are no longer with us.
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Bill Paxton, the Emmy Award-nominated actor who played an astronaut in “Apollo 13,” died Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017, of complications from surgery. He was 61.
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Mary Tyler Moore, the vivacious actress known best for roles on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. She was 80.
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David Gilkey, an American photojournalist for NPR, died June 5 along with his Afghan translator after the Taliban ambushed them in southern Afghanistan, according to multiple news sources, including NPR. …
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Remembering Morley Safer, veteran CBS journalist and correspondent for the network’s “60 Minutes” newsmagazine…
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Larry Drake, the Emmy Award-winning actor who portrayed a mentally challenged law clerk on “L.A. Law,” died Thursday of unspecified causes, according to People Magazine and The Associated Press.
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Alan Rickman, a British actor who played bad-guy and other film roles to perfection, has died. He was 69. He died Thursday, Jan. 14. The death was announced by the …
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America loves a good rags-to-riches story, and Barbara Stanwyck’s was one of the best in Hollywood history…
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Before comedy pioneers Joan Rivers, Carol Burnette, and Lily Tomlin helped disprove the notion that women couldn’t be funny, another woman was cracking up audiences decades earlier: Imogene Coca.