June 11

This Day in Humor with Mike Durrett

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Born 1926: "Brother Dave" Gardner, stand-up comedian.

Born 1935: Gene Wilder, actor, writer, film director, "Bonnie and Clyde," "The Producers," "Start the Revolution Without Me," "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex," "Blazing Saddles," "Young Frankenstein," "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother," "Silver Streak," "The World's Greatest Lover," "The Frisco Kid," "Stir Crazy," "The Woman in Red." Widower of Gilda Radner.

Born 1937: Johnny Brown, comedian, actor, "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," Good Times."

Born 1945: Adrienne Barbeau, actress, Carol on "Maude," "The Cannonball Run," "Back to School," "Head of the Class," "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death."

1953: The final episode of "The Amos 'n Andy Show" aired on CBS-TV, concluding a comic phenomenon which began in 1929 on network radio.

Born 1959: Hugh Laurie, comedian, actor, writer, once teamed with Stephen Fry, "Blackadder" series, "A Bit of Fry and Laurie," Bertie in "Jeeves and Wooster," "101 Dalmatians" (1996), "Spice World," "Stuart Little" films and TV series.

Opening in movie theatres: "A Day at the Races" (1937) with the Marx Bros. ... John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn in the lightly comic western "True Grit" (1969) ... "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) ...  Matthew Broderick in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986) ... Mike Myers in "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" (1999).

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