Art Linkletter Says The Deadest Things
May 26th, 2010 by Dr. Death
97 year old charmer (and snappy dresser) TV host Art Linkletter died today in his home in California.
Linkletter’s success is particularly astonishing considering his hardscrabble background. Born in Moose Jaw, Canada, in 1912, he was abandoned by his parents and grew up the adopted son of a poor preacher. After high school, Linkletter enrolled at San Diego State, hoping to become a teacher, but his plans changed after he got an unexpected phone call offering him a job at a local radio station. “I said sure,” Linkletter recalled. “It was 1933, the bottom of the Depression. If a gravedigger called me, I would bedigging graves today.”
Linkletter was the well-known host of the long-running TV show “People Are Funny” and the radio/TVshow “House Party.” In my opinion, that show went completely down hill with Kid n Play joined.
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