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  2. Grandpa Jones - Wikipedia

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    Louis Marshall Jones (October 20, 1913 – February 19, 1998), known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and old time/country music singer. He was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1978.

  3. Junior Samples - Wikipedia

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    One sketch of the show he appeared in regularly was "The Culhanes of Cornfield County" in which Junior, Gordie Tapp, Grandpa Jones and Lulu Roman would sit on a sofa and engage in a comedic deadpan routine: For example, in one episode each would talk about the new color TV set that had just been bought, but that they could not watch it, because ...

  4. Hee Haw - Wikipedia

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    Grandpa and Minnie's Kitchen – This sketch, which ran throughout most of the 1970s, spoofed TV cooking shows in which Grandpa Jones and Minnie Pearl delivered hilarious recipes that made no sense. Jerry Ralph R.B. "Bob" Bevis – This sketch appeared mostly in the 1980s, and featured Gailard Sartain as the owner of a small store/flea market ...

  5. Local history: ‘Hee Haw’ star Grandpa Jones got his start on ...

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    Grandpa Jones performed his final show at the Grand Ole Opry on Jan. 3, 1998. He suffered a stroke backstage and was taken by ambulance to a Nashville hospital. He died Feb. 19 at age 84.

  6. Bicentennial Minutes - Wikipedia

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    The long-running television program Hee Haw parodied Bicentennial Minutes as "About 200 Years Ago", with musician Grandpa Jones (wearing a mockery of a tri-cornered hat) giving a weekly monologue of humorously fractured historical "facts", about figures from the American Revolution and the colonial era. These ended with Jones saying "That's the ...

  7. Minnie Pearl - Wikipedia

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    She usually closed her monologs with the exit line, "I love you so much it hurts!" She also sang comic novelty songs and often danced with Grandpa Jones. In 1956, she made a paid appearance – $3,000, plus expenses – at the kickoff event of the first Alabama gubernatorial candidacy of segregationist George Wallace. She also appeared at an ...

  8. List of In Living Color sketches - Wikipedia

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    Al MacAfee – A parody of Joe Louis Clark, David Alan Grier plays a strict, yet clueless shop teacher with a bad hip. He is known for working as a Hall Monitor and using a bullhorn to yell at innocent students and teachers, while being oblivious to bad things going on around him, as well as the consistent rejection by a fellow female teacher (played by Kim Wayans), with whom he is infatuated.

  9. Archie Campbell (comedian) - Wikipedia

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    Born in Bulls Gap, Tennessee, Campbell studied art at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, North Carolina, after which he began a radio career at WNOX in Knoxville. After a year alongside Roy Acuff on their Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round, [1] he relocated to WDOD in Chattanooga, where he stayed until joining the U.S. Navy in 1941. [1]