{"id":25619,"date":"2026-05-10T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=25619"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:53:50","slug":"beloved-laugh-in-comedian-passed-away-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=25619","title":{"rendered":"Beloved \u2018Laugh-In\u2019 Comedian Passed Away At 88!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"279\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ruth Buzzi<\/span><\/span>, best known for playing Gladys Ormphby on the classic comedy show <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Rowan &amp; Martin\u2019s Laugh-In<\/span><\/span>, has died at the age of 88. She passed away peacefully at her Texas home after battling Alzheimer\u2019s disease and receiving hospice care.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"736\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Buzzi became a television icon as the only cast member to appear in every episode of <em data-start=\"366\" data-end=\"376\">Laugh-In<\/em>, earning a Golden Globe and multiple Emmy nominations. Throughout her career, she also appeared on Broadway, in films, and voiced characters in animated shows like <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The Smurfs<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sesame Street<\/span><\/span>. She retired from acting in 2021 after facing several health challenges, including strokes and Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E2IF8HejE1w?si=KchO7D9QiIp2Zl7v\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Buzzi, best known for playing Gladys Ormphby on the classic comedy show Rowan &amp; Martin\u2019s Laugh-In, has died at the age of 88. She passed away peacefully at her Texas home after battling Alzheimer\u2019s disease and receiving hospice care. Buzzi became a television icon as the only cast member to appear in every episode&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=25619\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Beloved \u2018Laugh-In\u2019 Comedian Passed Away At 88!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25621,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25619\/revisions\/25621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}