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Dick Martin, TV Genius [Rip]

Ayyyy! found this 5/27/2008 on gawker.com

" Dick Martin , a veteran nightclub comic who with his partner, Dan Rowan, turned a midseason replacement slot at NBC in 1968 into a hit that redefined what could be done on television, died Saturday night of respiratory complications at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., according to The Associated Press. He was 86. Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In , the hyperactive, joke-packed show that ...