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(The Associated Press file photo)
Sues, known as Big Al on the old television series, "Laugh-In," has died. Sues died of cardiac arrest on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, at his home in West Hollywood, Calif., Michael Gregg Michaud, a friend since 1975, told The Associated Press. Sues was 85.

'Laugh-In' comic actor Alan Sues dies at 85

LOS ANGELES -- Alan Sues, who brought his flamboyant and over-the-top comic persona to the hit television show "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" in the 1960s and 1970s, has died, a close friend said Sunday night.

Sues died of cardiac arrest on Thursday at his home in West Hollywood, Michael Gregg Michaud, a friend since 1975, told The Associated Press.

"He was sitting in a recliner watching TV with his dachshund Doris who he loved in his lap," Michaud said.

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 The original cast of “The Best of Laugh-In”

PBS socks it to viewers

PASADENA, Calif. -- If it's a pledge month, you can bet PBS will step into the Wayback Machine.

Granted, the 10th iteration of a doo-wop special arguably lives up to the mission of PBS, but the system could do worse -- and has: see 2003's "How to Live Forever with Gary Null" -- than to revisit touchstones of pop culture with specials such as "The Best of Laugh-In" (7 p.m. March 22 on KUED Channel 7).

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