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Living in Ft. Worth, TX. On March 19, 2011, she made a guest appearance on the local PBS station KERA for a special about "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In". [March 2011]

Was a regular on the The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1998).

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 81-82. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387

The "New Film Starts" section of the October 28, 1987, issue of Variety lists the movie "Night Falls", directed by Eric T. Nicolaisen, which began filming in Gainesville, Florida, Oct 19, 1987. Cast included Audrey Landers, Brian Patrick Clarke, Bill Erwin, Ruth Buzzi, Pamela Jean Bryant, and Gary Imhoff. A comedy-horror story about a college grad student who falls for a succubus. No evidence the film was ever released.

Ruth Buzzi earned five Emmy nominations but never won the award. She did win a Golden Globe in 1973 for 'Laugh In (1967)'.

She was one of only three people and the only woman to appear in every episode of Laugh-In (1967), including the special in 1967. The other two people were Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. Announcer Gary Owens also appeared in all six seasons but did not appear in the special.

The audiences demanded more of them and they eventually played several major nighttime television variety shows including The Garry Moore Show (1958) "The Entertainers" with Carol Burnett, and Your Show of Shows (1950) with Imogene Coca. She was hired by Bob Fosse to perform in his then wife Gwen Verdon's hit Broadway musical "Sweet Charity".

Ruth Buzzi was Born July 24, 1936 in South County (Westerly), Rhode Island to Rena Pauline and Angelo Peter Buzzi, a nationally recognized stone sculptor. She Raised in Wequetequock, Connecticut, and attended Stonington High School. She Gained experience as a cheerleader performing before crowds at athletic events. At 17, she enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse for the Performing Arts, among her classmates were the immeasurable talents of Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman. She graduated with honors. Ruth went on to Act in a wide variety of revues throughout New England, and worked alongside other young and talented performers who were just beginning their careers at the time. Including the legendary Barbra Streisand, Joan Rivers, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters and Carol Burnett. She came to national recognition when she teamed up with Dom DeLuise in an act in which he played an incompetent magician and she was his "sidekick" named "Shakuntala" who never spoke but sported a wide grin.