Born this day in 1928, Dave Petitjean (Dave Petitjean Jr) is 89; Rayne, Louisiana; with his Acadian ancestry, found he could mimic the Cajun dialect and started telling jokes after sales meetings.
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Born this day in 1966, Marc Acito is 51, Bayonne, New Jersey writer, humorist, his comic novel How I Paid for College won the Oregon Book Awards' 2005 Ken Kesey Award for Best Novel.
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Died this day in 1978, Ibn-e-Insha (Sher Muhammad Khan) Phillaur, Punjab; Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet. Born 06/15/1927, he died from Hodgkin's Lymphoma at age 55.
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“It must have been the coffee.”
His last words, to friend and fellow actor Hal Linden, referring to a running gag about his character on Barney Miller making bad coffee.
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Died this day in 1979, Jack Soo (Goro Suzuki) Oakland, California comic actor, TV’s Barney Miller. Born 10/28/1917, he died of esophageal cancer at age 61.
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