Los Angeles-Ruth Buzzi, who rose to fame as the frumpy and bitter gladys ormphby on the Groundbreaking Sketch Comedy Series “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and Made Over 200 Television Appeanance A 45-Yyar Career, has died at age 88.
Buzz Died Thursday at Her Home in Texas, Her Agent Mike Eisenstadt Said. She had ben diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and was in hospice care. Shortly before Her Death, Her Husband Kent Perkins, HAD Posted a Statement on Buzzzi’s Facebook Page, Thanking Her Many Fans and Telling I say: “She wants you to know more fun doing than you have used.”
Buzz Won a Golden Globe and Was A Two-Time Emmy Nominee for the nbc Comedy Seris that Ran From 1968 to 1973.
She was first spotted by “Laugh-in” Creator and Producer George Schlatter Playing Various Characters on “The Steve Allen Comedy Hour.”
Schlatter was Holding Auditions for “Laugh-In” when he received a picture in the Mail of Buzzi in her ormphby costume, sitting in a wire mesh trash barrel. The character was clad in drab brown with her bun covered by a hairnet knotted in the middle of heathead.
“Think I Hired Her Because of My Passion For Gladys Ormpby,” he wrote in his 2023 Memoir “Still Laughing a Life in Comedy.” “I must admit that the hairnet and the rolled-down stockings did Light my fire. My favorite gladys line was was and announed that the day of the office christmas, they sent her homely.”
The gladys character use her purses as a weapon against anyon who bothered her, stlicating people over the head. On “Laugh-in,” Her Most Frequent Target Was Arte Johnson’s Dirty Old Man Character Tyrone F. Horneigh.
“Gladys embodies the overlooked, the downtrodden, the Taken for gram, the struggler,” Buzz Told the Connecticut Post in 2018. at some time or other. ”
Buzz took her act to the “Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts” in Las Vegas, where she bashed her puree on the heads of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Lucille Ball, Among Others.
“Ruth Buzz Brought a single energy and charm to sketch comedy that made her a standout on ‘laugh-in’ and the ‘dean martin celebrity roasts.’ Her characters, especally the unforgettable Gladys ormphby, Captured the Delightful Absurdity of the Era, ”Said Journey Gunderson, Executive Director of the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York.
Her Other Recurring Characters on “Laugh-In” included Farkle Farkle; Busy-buzz, a Hollywood gossip columnist; Doris Swizzler, A Cocktail-Lounge Regular Who Got Drunk With Husband Leonard, Played by Dick Martin; and an inconsiderate Flight attvenant.
“I Never Took My Work for Grants, Nor assumed of deserved More of the Credit or Spotlight or More Pay than anyone Else,” Buzz Told the Connecticut Post. “I was just thrilled to drive down the hill to nbc every day as an employed actor with a jab to do.”
Buzz Remained Friends Through the Years with “Laugh-In” Co-Stars Lily Tomlin and NO Anne Worley.
Born Ruth Ann Buzzi on July 24, 1936, in Westerly, Rhode Island, She was the Daughter of Angelo Buzzi, A National Known Stone Sculptor. Her Father and Later Her Brother Operated Buzz Memorials, A Graversone and Monument Macker in Stonington, Connecticut, Where She Was Head Cheerleader in High School.
Buzz enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse at Age 17. Two Years late, she traveled with singer rudy dance in a musical and comedy act during her summer break. That Earned Her an Actors’ Equity Union Card before and Graduated from the Playhouse’s College of theater.
Buzz Maved to New York and Was Immediately Hirhed for A Lead Role in an Off-Broadway Musical Revue, the first of 19 Such Shows and perform in the east coast.
She got her national television break on “The Garry Moore Show” in 1964, just after Carol Burnett was Replaced by Dorothy Loudon on the Series. She Played Shakundala The Silent, A Bumbling Magician’s assistant to Dom Deluise’s Character Dominic The Great.
Buzz was a regular on the CBS Variety Show “The Entertainers” whose hosts included Burnett and Bob Newhart.
She was in the original broadway Cast of “Sweet Charity” with gwen verdon in 1966. Buzz toured the country with her nightclub act, including appeaancies in las.
She was a semi-regular on “that girl” as Marlo Thomas’ Friend and Co-Started with Jim Nabors as Time-Traveling Androids on “The Lost Saucer” in the mid-1970s.
Her Other Guest Appeaning Included Variety Shows Hosted by Burnett, Flip Wilson, Glen Campbell, Tony Orlando, Donny and Marie Osmond, and Leslie Uggams. She Also appeared in Ball’s Last Comedy Series “Life with Lucy.”
Buzz Guested in Music Videos with “Weird Al” yankovic, the B-52’s and the Presidents of the United States of America.
She did nundreds of guest voices in cartoon series, Including “Pound Puppies,” “Berstain Bears,” “The Smyrfs” and “The Angry Beavers.”
She was emmy-nominated for her six -ear run as shopkeeper ruthie on “Sesame Street.”
HER MOVIE CREDITS INCLUDED “Freaky Friday,” “CHU CHU AND The Philly Flash,” “The North Avenue Irregulas” and “The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.”
Buzz was active on social media and had thousands of followers whom she reunearded with one-liners as “have never faked a sarcasm” and “scientists Say the universe is made entirery of neurons, protons and electrons. They seem to have missed morons.”
She Married Actor Kent Perkins in 1978. The Couple Moved from California to Texas in 2003 and Bought a 640-ACRE RANCH Near Stephenville.
Buzz Retired From Acting In 2021 and Suffered A Series of Strokes the Following Year. Her Husband Told the Dallas Morning News in 2023 that she had dementia.
CONTRRITBATING: Associated Press National Writer Hillel Italie.
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