August 14

This Day in Humor with Mike Durrett

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Born 1926: Alice Ghostley, actress, "Captain Nice," "The Flim-Flam Man," "The Jonathan Winters Show," "With Six You Get Eggroll," "Bewitched," "Mayberry R.F.D.," "Grease," "Designing Women."

Born 1945: Steve Martin, stand-up comedy phenomenon, actor, writer, "The Ray Stevens Show," "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour," "The Smothers Brothers Show," "The Jerk," "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," "The Man With Two Brains," "The Lonely Guy," "All of Me," "Three Amigos," "Little Shop of Horrors" (1986), "Roxanne," "Planes, Trains & Automobiles," "Parenthood," "L.A. Story," "Father of the Bride" (1991), "HouseSitter," "Sgt. Bilko," "Bowfinger," "The Out-of-Towners" (1999), "Bringing Down the House, "Looney Tunes: Back in Action," "Cheaper by the Dozen" (2003).

Born 1946: Susan Saint James, actress, "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows," "What's So Bad About Feeling Good?" "How to Beat the High Co$t of Living," "Kate and Allie."

Born 1950: Gary Larson, cartoonist, "The Far Side."

Born 1956: Jackee Harry, actress, "Another World," "227," "Sister, Sister."

1956: The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Elvis Presley was created by Bob Rickman, a Washington, DC, disc jockey.

Born 1961: Susan Olsen, actress, Cindy on "The Brady Bunch."

Born 1983: Mila Kunas, actress, "That 70's Show."

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