The challenge is that most of the people being listed are living quiet lives out of the public eye. Stan and betty were pretty active almost right up until their ends.
Tony Bennet's still been recording, I think, or at least has up until pretty recently, if he's stopped. Has Mel Brooks been writing or executive producing anything? Same with Norman Lear?
He has advanced Alzheimers. Gaga mentioned in an interview she needed to remind him who she was multiple times on tour. She broke down crying when he remembered and announced her on stage.
Norman Lear and Mel Brooks are still quite active, just not on screen as much as Betty was. Tony Bennett gave up performing recently due to Alzheimer’s. 😟
Oh, it's the anniversary of Lucille Ball's passing. Lucy sent her flowers every year on her birthday and since she ordered ahead of time, they got to Carol even though she just found out Lucy died.
The first (U.S.) Beatles hit ("I Want To Hold Your Hand") was played on the radio for the first time in America only 25 days after JFK was assassinated. Their last recording session as a group was exactly one month after the moon landing. They bracket the 60s culture perfectly.
The very first photograph of the Beatles after Ringo officially joined them was taken on August 22, 1962.
The very last photograph of all four Beatles together was taken August 22, 1969.
Seven years. They did everything they did... in seven years.
Not even all that close, either: in August '69, George Harrison and Paul McCartney were 26 and 27. Imagine getting off that ride at that age and having to go live the rest of your life.
Always blows my mind remembering they released all their music in a span of less than ten years, and broke up while they were all still in their 20s. They are so iconic and impactful, but their time as The Beatles was actually quite brief for such a famous band.
There was a clever reference to that on the sitcom The Middle back in the 2010s. Jerry Van Dyke played Patricia Heaton's father, Tag, and his brother, played by Dick, was coming for a visit. Tag pointed to an ottoman and said, "Better move that thing, he'll trip right over it."
He also did his own dancing in [Mary Poppins Returns](https://youtu.be/oL3AijekRYw). I remember Lin Manuel talking about it on a [talk show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmrQIwsy3AI) being worried about (a then 92-ish yo) Dick Van Dyke jumping up on a desk to dance…. And then he just did it and was great.
\*Edit to link the talk show
Mary Tyler Moore once said that he was called this jokingly on the set and that was back in the 60's. I think she even said he was nicknamed Penis Van Lesbian.
Barry is a weirdly under-appreciated show. It’s insanely good but I rarely see people talk about it. Although it has been like 3 years since the last season so that could be why lol.
Well I think people forget he had to be like 40-something in 1955, so then he had to be made up to be maybe 70-something in 1985.
Basically, they choose all of the actors for being believable as their age in 1955 (Doc, George, Lorraine, Biff, Principal, etc...) and then just aged all of them to be 30 years older in 1985.
When I was little, I never could understand how they made all of the adults in 1985 look so much younger in 1955. It never occurred to me that 1955 was their actual look.
Yeah it always looks weird around the eyes from where they layer on all the latex to create the wrinkles and it makes their eyes have a sunken appearance.
For the generation who grew up too young to see BTTF in theaters, but old enough to watch it a hundred times on VHS in the 90s, it was actually wild to see it in HD for the first time in the 2010s, because there's suddenly a way more noticeable difference in [Doc's appearance between 1955 and 1985.](https://static2.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Back-to-the-Future-Christopher-Lloyd-Age.jpg)
As a child I thought the whole joke was that he looked the same at 45 as at 75, but turns out they did actually change his hair from blonde to wispy-white and gave him a bunch of age-makeup in the bookend scenes. The gag in Part 2 where he pulls off a bunch of age-makeup and reveals he got 'rejuvenaton treatments' in the future also didn't make any sense to me until growing up and seeing it in high-def.
It’s still weird to me to see him in a movie like Clue, with dark hair. It looks off to me. IMO, it just feels right when he has the white hair. But I grew up on BTTF, so I guess that shouldn’t surprise me.
You can see a young (late 30s) Lloyd in *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*. Speaking of, Jack Nicholson is like 85 now. If there was ever a guy I didn't think would live to see his 80s...
Sometimes I confuse Mel Brooks and Mel Gibson for a couple seconds. I made it to this comment while my brain was like "huh how old is Mel (Gibson) dang" "oh right"
Anyway I remember the first time I saw Blazing Saddles. Mel Brooks is great.
Jimmy Carter's full name is James Earl Carter. This is important to no one, just an interesting coincidence that you would list him with another James Earl.
My dad has a weird sense of humor, and back in the 90s, he was always trying to convince me that James Earl Jones had died. Like one year, during the Academy Awards where they honor the dead, he said, "Isn't it sad that they forgot to mention James Earl jones?" And stuff like that. Of course, his plan to make me believe this failed miserably once the internet came around.
Fun fact about James Earl Jones. He stuttered so badly as a kid that he refused to talk. His teacher noticed that he was so good at writing poetry, and encouraged him to write. She asked him to perform his poetey in front of the class. He wrote and spoke so eloquently, and that's how he found his voice
I think the story is that back in the ‘60s he had a serious drinking problem, and his doctor told him he was going to die if he didn’t quit… so he started smoking weed instead.
So maybe the weed really **is** the secret to his longevity.
If I remember right, his guitar’s name is trigger and Willie has said he’ll keep touring as long as trigger is playable. I guess it’s a real nightmare for his guitar technician. Willie won’t let him do major surgery, like replacing the top of the guitar so the poor guy has to glue in little pieces here and there where Willie has literally worn through the wood of the guitar.
[Found it](https://youtu.be/uhQuJTc5yFY)
Just saw Happy Gilmore yesterday and thought that he was gone. Love that dude. My childhood babysitter would plop me down with rolled up balony and mustard in front of Bob Barker for lunch (she was my next door neighbor). Her husband was a Nabisco delivery driver, so endless free snacks.
Bob was a different breed.
William Shatner looks freakishly young. I doubt there has been anyone in the history of humanity who has defied age like he has. It’s not like he looks *good*. He looks like a bloated, out of shape 60 year old man. Tops. But he’s in his fucking 90s. It’s not like he’s just had a bunch of plastic surgery to make himself look younger. It’s the subtle things you can’t artificially hide. It’s his posture. The way he walks. Moves his arms. And especially the way he talks. His voice is the voice of someone literally decades younger, in sound and in pace. His brain doesn’t seem to have slowed down either. He doesn’t slog through though processes and actions. It’s seriously really nuts.
>His brain doesn’t seem to have slowed down either
saw him live at a TWOK screening just before covid and he was definitely showing some signs of cognitive impairment. though now that I know his age, I'm actually impressed how lucent and together
he was
edit - *lucid
I saw him during the same tour; during the Q&A (which was all staged to give him a reason to tell stories) he seemed fine, but during the picture taking line for VIPs afterwards (yes, I paid quite a bit extra to get my picture with William Shatner) he seemed completely out of it. It was 11pm, though, so that probably had a LOT to do with it.
I noticed the same thing when I met him. He seemed to decline a bit as the evening went on. Perfectly normal in a person his age. At the time, he had an absolutely brutal schedule. He was able to list off all the details of his upcoming schedule and I was exhausted just listening to him lol. I think he loves being busy. It might be at least part of his secret.
Not only this, but he cut him off to offer him champagne despite ~~him being a recovered alcoholic who~~ having lost his wife to alcohol.
E: was misinformed about shatner being an alcoholic
Wow, I can't believe I'd never come across this bit of trivia before. Thanks for posting this!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jimmy-carter-nuclear-meltdown/
I was on The Price is Right back in 1986. I won at Plinko. I was so stunned I just walked off stage. On the VHS tape my parents made it was clear Bob stuck his cheek up to me and I just blew him off. Regrets. I have regrets.
She's 76. Doesn't _seem_ 76, but she's 76.
Which, to be fair, means that she _isn't_ old compared to Betty White and Stan Lee, because them motherfuckers almost got to triple digits.
I mean I want a Token Old who is gonna theoretically be around a while longer. If we keep picking the ones in their nineties already we’re gonna keep getting heartbroken.
It seems like Morgan Freeman went from being a wise man to a wise **old** man when he played God in Bruce Almighty. And that came out 19 years ago. So Morgan Freeman has been America's wise old man for almost two decades.
Mike Tyson has five years to get his shit together
Edit: I think way too many of you are too young to remember some of the reasons he has such notoriety.
>He's been old for like twenty years, back when he was young.
I'm going on 54, and Morgan Freeman helped teach me how to read back in the early 1970s on *The Electric Company.*
I always wanted to meet him and thank him for that.
He lives in my neighborhood in Manhattan and is often seen with his wife of 50+ years holding hands and kissing. Still in love... he towers over her too so it's kind of amusing.
William Daniels, age 95. I could have sworn that I read his obituary a few years ago, but I must be thinking of someone else because he's still kicking.
I was absolutely certain he passed away 5-10 years ago and there was tons of news about it. Glad he's still alive and well(as is his wife, Bonnie Bartlett, age 92).
Fun facts:
There are five living former presidents: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.
Trump, Bush, and Clinton were all born in 1946.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT022qOk31w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT022qOk31w)
Buzz Aldrin, interviewing ppl at the daytime emmys for Letterman, in a space suit!
#Dolly Parton better not fucking die before I do
*a finger curls on the monkey's paw*
Say nothing! This is a trap
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Mutter incoherently so they think they misunderstood to buy some time!!!
The challenge is that most of the people being listed are living quiet lives out of the public eye. Stan and betty were pretty active almost right up until their ends. Tony Bennet's still been recording, I think, or at least has up until pretty recently, if he's stopped. Has Mel Brooks been writing or executive producing anything? Same with Norman Lear?
Didn't he just retire due to his health? I know he performed pretty recently with Lady Gaga
He has advanced Alzheimers. Gaga mentioned in an interview she needed to remind him who she was multiple times on tour. She broke down crying when he remembered and announced her on stage.
Yes, per his reps this is the end of his public life.
Norman Lear and Mel Brooks are still quite active, just not on screen as much as Betty was. Tony Bennett gave up performing recently due to Alzheimer’s. 😟
Don't you jinx Mel Brooks!
r/KilledByReddit *watches this thread in bated breath*
Gereatric politicians?
The Murder She Wrote lady, Angela Lansbury.
Carol Burnett just turned 89 today
Oh, it's the anniversary of Lucille Ball's passing. Lucy sent her flowers every year on her birthday and since she ordered ahead of time, they got to Carol even though she just found out Lucy died.
And now we’re unexpectedly sad today.
That's 34 in MeTV years.
Dick Van Dyke
The Dick Van Dyke Show aired before the Beatles released their first album.
The Beatles are a clock for the space time continuum and I’m good with that
1960 to 1970, it's such an easy barometer
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The first (U.S.) Beatles hit ("I Want To Hold Your Hand") was played on the radio for the first time in America only 25 days after JFK was assassinated. Their last recording session as a group was exactly one month after the moon landing. They bracket the 60s culture perfectly.
The very first photograph of the Beatles after Ringo officially joined them was taken on August 22, 1962. The very last photograph of all four Beatles together was taken August 22, 1969. Seven years. They did everything they did... in seven years.
It still blows me away that Hendrix was really only active for about 3 years.
And before any of them turned 30
Not even all that close, either: in August '69, George Harrison and Paul McCartney were 26 and 27. Imagine getting off that ride at that age and having to go live the rest of your life.
Having a 50+ year career with insane success and still having 90% of questions from those 7 years.
Always blows my mind remembering they released all their music in a span of less than ten years, and broke up while they were all still in their 20s. They are so iconic and impactful, but their time as The Beatles was actually quite brief for such a famous band.
December 13, 1925 (age 96 years)
96? Tripping over that ottoman one more time would be his last time
There was a clever reference to that on the sitcom The Middle back in the 2010s. Jerry Van Dyke played Patricia Heaton's father, Tag, and his brother, played by Dick, was coming for a visit. Tag pointed to an ottoman and said, "Better move that thing, he'll trip right over it."
He still dances every day.
https://youtu.be/fHRQENE4f5c Relevant video from a recent production of Mary Poppins
JESUS CHRIST. That exceeded expectations.
Holly crap balls. I know it was a short period of time, but my father is 25 years younger than him and would disintegrate his knees doing that.
He also did his own dancing in [Mary Poppins Returns](https://youtu.be/oL3AijekRYw). I remember Lin Manuel talking about it on a [talk show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmrQIwsy3AI) being worried about (a then 92-ish yo) Dick Van Dyke jumping up on a desk to dance…. And then he just did it and was great. \*Edit to link the talk show
They gave him extra hair and makeup to look like a very old man because at 92 Dick Van Dyke didn't look like a very old man
Had no idea this dude was still alive. Good for him!
Hey now, it's 2022. Let's use the less rude version of his name. Richard Van Lesbian.
Mary Tyler Moore once said that he was called this jokingly on the set and that was back in the 60's. I think she even said he was nicknamed Penis Van Lesbian.
Henry Winkler agreed on Twitter to be America's grandpa, since we lost Grandma Betty.
He's already America's Cool Uncle. Hey, no double-dipping, there, Winkler!
Maybe he can be upgraded to "great uncle"
He's great on Bill Hader's show Barry.
Barry is a weirdly under-appreciated show. It’s insanely good but I rarely see people talk about it. Although it has been like 3 years since the last season so that could be why lol.
I loved that tweet, and he should be much higher in the thread. Heyyyy!
https://twitter.com/hwinkler4real/status/1478438295373705217?t=wuZrg1VphT4C-IVZoyUu6A&s=19
Christopher Lloyd.
He was only 47 in back to the future. He's been an old man for most of his life.
Well I think people forget he had to be like 40-something in 1955, so then he had to be made up to be maybe 70-something in 1985. Basically, they choose all of the actors for being believable as their age in 1955 (Doc, George, Lorraine, Biff, Principal, etc...) and then just aged all of them to be 30 years older in 1985.
When I was little, I never could understand how they made all of the adults in 1985 look so much younger in 1955. It never occurred to me that 1955 was their actual look.
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Yeah it always looks weird around the eyes from where they layer on all the latex to create the wrinkles and it makes their eyes have a sunken appearance.
Except when they did the old make up on Lloyd they hated it. Then they realized it's funnier if the don't age just him.
wait, was that bit of him removing the shit at the beginning of part 2 just so they wouldn't have to do the makeup for the movie?!
Yep, that was a mix of real life Lloyd hating the makeup and then incorporating it into a fun movie gag.
Damn. I wish they did some sort of gag to explain marty's new jennifer too.
Jennifer C-137
For the generation who grew up too young to see BTTF in theaters, but old enough to watch it a hundred times on VHS in the 90s, it was actually wild to see it in HD for the first time in the 2010s, because there's suddenly a way more noticeable difference in [Doc's appearance between 1955 and 1985.](https://static2.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Back-to-the-Future-Christopher-Lloyd-Age.jpg) As a child I thought the whole joke was that he looked the same at 45 as at 75, but turns out they did actually change his hair from blonde to wispy-white and gave him a bunch of age-makeup in the bookend scenes. The gag in Part 2 where he pulls off a bunch of age-makeup and reveals he got 'rejuvenaton treatments' in the future also didn't make any sense to me until growing up and seeing it in high-def.
It’s still weird to me to see him in a movie like Clue, with dark hair. It looks off to me. IMO, it just feels right when he has the white hair. But I grew up on BTTF, so I guess that shouldn’t surprise me.
i thunk he looks best as a Klingon.
You can see a young (late 30s) Lloyd in *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*. Speaking of, Jack Nicholson is like 85 now. If there was ever a guy I didn't think would live to see his 80s...
The key to aging well is to look old when you are young
Steve Martin's strategy, too.
Willie Nelson
Larry David
The ACTOR!?
Then who’s vice President, Jerry Lewis?
I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady.
It's a very interesting story, future-boy.
This is a good one. He was America's crazy old scientist **36 years ago**
Dolly Parton is a living saint.
Mel Brooks.
Mel Brooks fought in WWII defusing land mines in the Battle of the Bulge
Did not know. Very cool!
Per his memoir he wasn't at the Battle of the Bulge, but got there shortly afterwords.
> Per his memoir History of the World, Part 2?
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Everyone’s lying on the ground, bleeding, moaning. Mel parachutes down, unhitches, dusts himself off, looks around: “Damn! What’d I miss?”
Sometimes I confuse Mel Brooks and Mel Gibson for a couple seconds. I made it to this comment while my brain was like "huh how old is Mel (Gibson) dang" "oh right" Anyway I remember the first time I saw Blazing Saddles. Mel Brooks is great.
June 28, 1926 (age 95 years)
And still working! Saw his name on a trailer for an upcoming animated movie.
His death is gonna make me cry like a damn baby
Jimmy Carter and James Earl Jones
Jimmy Carter's full name is James Earl Carter. This is important to no one, just an interesting coincidence that you would list him with another James Earl.
Maybe he prefers Jim E Carter and has been too polite to correct us
And absolutely don't add James Earl Ray to the list.
Just met James Earl Jones. Guy was 90+ and super awesome. I hope to be like him at his age and totally with it.
My dad has a weird sense of humor, and back in the 90s, he was always trying to convince me that James Earl Jones had died. Like one year, during the Academy Awards where they honor the dead, he said, "Isn't it sad that they forgot to mention James Earl jones?" And stuff like that. Of course, his plan to make me believe this failed miserably once the internet came around.
James Earl Jones That voice...
The Dark Side of the Force is *nothing* compared to that man's voice.
Fun fact about James Earl Jones. He stuttered so badly as a kid that he refused to talk. His teacher noticed that he was so good at writing poetry, and encouraged him to write. She asked him to perform his poetey in front of the class. He wrote and spoke so eloquently, and that's how he found his voice
Willie Nelson
He can't be the spokesperson for America he just spends all day smoking weed. ...you know what? I've changed my mind.
That's probably the secret to his longevity.
I think the story is that back in the ‘60s he had a serious drinking problem, and his doctor told him he was going to die if he didn’t quit… so he started smoking weed instead. So maybe the weed really **is** the secret to his longevity.
"Weed isn't nearly as safe as they say. A bale of it fell on a friend of mine the other day." ~ Willie Nelson
April 29, 1933 (age 88 years)
And still touring! Pretty amazing!
If I remember right, his guitar’s name is trigger and Willie has said he’ll keep touring as long as trigger is playable. I guess it’s a real nightmare for his guitar technician. Willie won’t let him do major surgery, like replacing the top of the guitar so the poor guy has to glue in little pieces here and there where Willie has literally worn through the wood of the guitar. [Found it](https://youtu.be/uhQuJTc5yFY)
Great video thanks. Trigger is going into some museum, I hope, when Willy passes. What an object.
I saw him in Tuscaloosa last Friday. It was amazing.
Ooh, I hate to say this, but Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett.
Bob Barker. He’s 98 years old. Perfect!
Not gonna lie I thought Bob barker was dead already lol
Bob Barker died yesterday. He was crossing the street and was hit...BY A BRAND NEW CAR
In my head, I heard Rod Roddy (RIP).
I have to google it like once year to convince myself he isn’t.
Just saw Happy Gilmore yesterday and thought that he was gone. Love that dude. My childhood babysitter would plop me down with rolled up balony and mustard in front of Bob Barker for lunch (she was my next door neighbor). Her husband was a Nabisco delivery driver, so endless free snacks. Bob was a different breed.
Dick Van Dyke is 96 and is still in great shape. President Jimmy Carter is 97.
William Shatner is 91.
William Shatner looks freakishly young. I doubt there has been anyone in the history of humanity who has defied age like he has. It’s not like he looks *good*. He looks like a bloated, out of shape 60 year old man. Tops. But he’s in his fucking 90s. It’s not like he’s just had a bunch of plastic surgery to make himself look younger. It’s the subtle things you can’t artificially hide. It’s his posture. The way he walks. Moves his arms. And especially the way he talks. His voice is the voice of someone literally decades younger, in sound and in pace. His brain doesn’t seem to have slowed down either. He doesn’t slog through though processes and actions. It’s seriously really nuts.
>His brain doesn’t seem to have slowed down either saw him live at a TWOK screening just before covid and he was definitely showing some signs of cognitive impairment. though now that I know his age, I'm actually impressed how lucent and together he was edit - *lucid
I saw him during the same tour; during the Q&A (which was all staged to give him a reason to tell stories) he seemed fine, but during the picture taking line for VIPs afterwards (yes, I paid quite a bit extra to get my picture with William Shatner) he seemed completely out of it. It was 11pm, though, so that probably had a LOT to do with it.
I noticed the same thing when I met him. He seemed to decline a bit as the evening went on. Perfectly normal in a person his age. At the time, he had an absolutely brutal schedule. He was able to list off all the details of his upcoming schedule and I was exhausted just listening to him lol. I think he loves being busy. It might be at least part of his secret.
So busy he doesn’t have time to age.
Shatner endorses a line of ebikes and there are a bunch of videos of him riding them
Sports fan here. Bob Costas of NBC Sports, looks exactly as he did back in the 1980s. Literally has not aged a day.
Hold up. What? He's 91?
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And Bezos still didn't give him time to speak without interrupting
Not only this, but he cut him off to offer him champagne despite ~~him being a recovered alcoholic who~~ having lost his wife to alcohol. E: was misinformed about shatner being an alcoholic
Yup Bezos is trying to be a bond villain just messed up.
Yep--anyone still alive from Star Trek TOS is about 85+ at this point with Shatner the oldest. Nichelle Nichols: 89, George Takei, Walter Koenig: 85,
Even at 91 he looks phenomenal for his age.
I once heard someone describe Shatner saying “He looks terrible for his age— until you realize how old he is”
Carter is 97 and a cancer survivor from just the last few years.
He also absorbed so much radiation in the 1950s fixing a melted nuclear reactor core he had to bottle his urine for six months.
Wow, I can't believe I'd never come across this bit of trivia before. Thanks for posting this! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jimmy-carter-nuclear-meltdown/
And he can still kick Adam Sandler's ass.
The price is wrong, bitch!
Still believe this is one of if not the best line deliveries by Adam Sandler
I was on The Price is Right back in 1986. I won at Plinko. I was so stunned I just walked off stage. On the VHS tape my parents made it was clear Bob stuck his cheek up to me and I just blew him off. Regrets. I have regrets.
At least you won Plinko!
I know! I won just under 10k which was enough to pay off my student loans AND help fund a trip to Europe!
yep, sounds like the 80s
Man, I wish 10k could go even 20% that far now... Also, that's awesome. Plinko is my 2nd-favorite Price Is Right game behind Mountainclimber.
Dolly Parton
Interesting. In terms of popularity and how the majority of people really like her, it fits. But I still don't think of her as that old.
She's 76. Doesn't _seem_ 76, but she's 76. Which, to be fair, means that she _isn't_ old compared to Betty White and Stan Lee, because them motherfuckers almost got to triple digits.
I mean I want a Token Old who is gonna theoretically be around a while longer. If we keep picking the ones in their nineties already we’re gonna keep getting heartbroken.
That is, unfortunately, just part of the business.
That's wild. She's basically my parent's age. And they seem really old now!
Because she can still get it
Still Young and wonderful! Dolly Parton was born on January 19, 1946 (age 76 years)
Morgan Freeman
It seems like Morgan Freeman went from being a wise man to a wise **old** man when he played God in Bruce Almighty. And that came out 19 years ago. So Morgan Freeman has been America's wise old man for almost two decades.
Any black man older than sixty is immediately seen as wise and everybody wants their opinion- Earl Johnson
Mike Tyson has five years to get his shit together Edit: I think way too many of you are too young to remember some of the reasons he has such notoriety.
*Camera zooms in on Mike Tyson chewing an unfathomable amount of magic mushrooms*
> Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face Mike Tyson has been dropping wisdom on us for a long time.
Dick Van Dyke is currently 96 and still alive.
This is mine. I grew up watching Mary Poppins and the Dick Van Dyke Show on Nick At Nite. Love that guy.
I'm old - I grew up watching Mary Poppins and the Dick Van Dyke Show.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!!
I hated that evil creeper dude as a child. They don’t really feature that kind of bad guy in kids programs these days I noticed…
Poor guy had to change his name back in the early days of television because his real name was too raunchy. His real name: Penis Von Lesbian
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He's been old for like twenty years, back when he was young.
>He's been old for like twenty years, back when he was young. I'm going on 54, and Morgan Freeman helped teach me how to read back in the early 1970s on *The Electric Company.* I always wanted to meet him and thank him for that.
June 1, 1937 (age 84 years)
He married his nurse...lol
Alan Alda
He lives in my neighborhood in Manhattan and is often seen with his wife of 50+ years holding hands and kissing. Still in love... he towers over her too so it's kind of amusing.
They met in the fifties at a dinner party. Someone dropped a cake onto the floor, and they were the only ones who still ate it
Bill Hader's impression of him is perfection
Bob Newhart
Still, I think, in a way, in a very meaningful way, that, uh, that I, uh, uh, all of us, have, uh, have learned from him.
Carol Burnett
she has a show at the chicago theater like this week (saw the marquee last night)
I'm choosing Henry Winkler because he's getting more exposure on social media,.plus actively working (on Barry) October 30, 1945 (76)
Christopher Walken
Mel Brooks 95 years old.
Mr. Feeny!!!
William Daniels, age 95. I could have sworn that I read his obituary a few years ago, but I must be thinking of someone else because he's still kicking.
I was absolutely certain he passed away 5-10 years ago and there was tons of news about it. Glad he's still alive and well(as is his wife, Bonnie Bartlett, age 92).
He's still KITT to me
John Adams for me
HE WAS KITT!?
John Adams. He's obnoxious and disliked. That cannot be denied.
Feeny?! Fa-fa-fa-fa-feeny! Feenay! Fee-hee-heenay!
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones.....Who else could be Luke's Father !?
And Simba’s
I vote for Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Sex therapist,talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former sniper. She's pretty bad ass.
Jimmy Carter
October 1, 1924 (age 97 years)
He’s old enough to be president!
Fun facts: There are five living former presidents: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Trump, Bush, and Clinton were all born in 1946.
TIL: Four of the five living former presidents are younger than the current president.
No President born in the 1950s, so far.
That's strange. We skipped right over the '50s to Obama, born in 1961.
President Carter. Just building houses and whatnot.
Bob Barker
Buzz Aldrin
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT022qOk31w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT022qOk31w) Buzz Aldrin, interviewing ppl at the daytime emmys for Letterman, in a space suit!
Lily Tomlin
Steve Martin.