ARTE (AR-dee)
Arte
Johnson: American actor best known for role in “Laugh-In”
TV show
Common clues:
Johnson
of "Laugh-In"; First name from "Laugh-In";
Comic Johnson; Jocular Johnson; Funny Johnson; Jokester Johnson;
Ruth’s “Laugh-In” foil
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
7 time a year
Frequency
in English language:
35106 / 86800
Video: Freeze-In
Arte Johnson (born January 20, 1929), full name Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson, is a comic actor.
Arte
Johnson and the Laugh-In cast
He was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan and attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 1949 after working on the campus radio station and the U of I Theater Guild with his brother, Cos.
He initially sought employment in Chicago working for advertising agencies, but left for New York to work for Viking Press. His first "show business" job came when he impulsively stepped into an audition line and was cast in a revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
He is best known for his work on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, an American television show (1968-1973), in which he played various characters including a smoking Nazi soldier with the catch phrase "Verrry interesting..." Johnson indicated later that the phrase came from Desperate Journey, a 1942 World War II film with Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan playing Royal Air Force pilots shot down in Nazi Germany; they managed to cross much of the country without speaking German or knowing the territory, but when captured, their Nazi interrogator doubts their story with the phrase.
In the 1990s Johnson voiced "Newt", a hunting dog on the cartoon Animaniacs, who futilely became enamoured of his target, a sexy female mink named Minerva.
Arte has performed some memorable audiobook readings, including Gary Shteyngart's "Absurdistan" (2006), and more than eighty other books.
He lives in Southern California with his wife Gisela, and does voice tracks and recordings.
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