Beloved comedy icon Henry Gibson dead at 73.
Gibson shot to fame as one of the stars of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, a rapid ire potpourri of gags and topical 1960s humor.
One of Gibson’s many shiticks was to read a "Poem by Henry Gibson" clutching ginormous flower power daffodil- often brain dead hilarious and pointedly satiric, the black out bits propelled Gibson to a household name.
Gibson lost his long battle with cancer and passed at his home in Malibu, his son James, confirmed.
Henry, born James Bateman, stole his comic persona as a pun on playwright Henrik Ibsen, author of the play The Dollhouse after serving in the Air Force.
With a career that endured for four decades he played a villainous Nazi in The Blues Brothers, and was also in The Long Goodbye, Gremlins 2, The Nutty Professor and more recently Wedding Crashers. He received a Glode Globe nom for his role in the Robert Altman classic Nashville.
Gibson also appeared on Boston Legal as Judge Clarence Brown (and abillion other TV shows) and his two comedy LPs remains classics.
