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The show's origins were completely by happenstance. In the summer of 1949, then-General Manager Mort Watters asked Lewis (hired on two months earlier as WCPO's first art director) to host an hour-long filler show called Al's Corner Drugstore, in which Lewis, dressed in a soda jerk's uniform, would take phone-in requests for songs which he would play on his accordion, which would later become ...
Smith was with The Uncle Al Show for six years. Smith achieved his greatest fame by the late 1960s, when he went to then-new TV station WXIX in Cincinnati to host an afternoon puppet/cartoon show which came to be called Larry Smith's Cartoon Club, which he hosted throughout the 1970s. Smith and his puppets were the first stars of WXIX when they ...
Uncle Al, the Kiddies' Pal – A short-tempered host of a children's show, he usually goes on the air with a hangover: "Oh, kiddies, Uncle Al had a lot of medicine last night." Whenever he got really agitated, he would yell to "Get Miss Twinkle on the phone!" Grabowski – a benchwarmer football player obviously not cut out for the sport.
TODAY's Al Roker posted a photo of Savannah Guthrie's son, Charley, meeting LeBron James at a party at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, L > R: Ruth Buzzi Joanne Worley, John Wayne, Tiny Tim, Alan Sues, Dick Martin, Dennis Roy Allen, and Henry Gibson. Alan Grigsby Sues (March 7, 1926 – December 1, 2011) was an American actor and comedian widely known for his roles on the 1968–1973 television series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Giving the fans what they want! Tre Cooper shared a photo of his now-infamous uncle after Tahzjuan Hawkins admitted during the Bachelor in Paradise season 7 premiere that she dated him pre-show.
The elder Sharpton left his young family in 1963 — when Sharpton was just 10 — to start a relationship and a new family with Sharpton’s 18-year-old half-sister. At the time, the father owned ...
At the age of 17, she married David Greenroos, and became a mother and homemaker until, in 1954, Burke persuaded her to join him on stage as a singer of duets. She adopted the stage name Janet Greene, and was soon recruited by television station WCPO to take the role of Cinderella in a popular children's show, The Uncle Al Show presented by Al ...