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Dick Martin

He and Dan Rowan were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
When he was taping five game show episodes in one day (such as the later years of Match Game 73 (1973)), he often didn't bother with the facade of changing his clothes for each show - he wore the same clothes through the taping, making it appear he was wearing the same outfit each day he appeared on the show.
He had lost the use of one of his lungs from tuberculosis as a teenager. He used bottled oxygen for the rest of his life.
Father, with first wife Peggy Connelly, of son Richard Martin.
Best remembered by the public for working with Dan Rowan on Laugh-In (1967).

My life has been divided into three parts in the show-business world: nightclubs, television, and then I was a director for 30 years of television shows. And I think the most fun I ever had was nightclubs. I loved nightclubs.
On his nightclub years with Dan Rowan: "It had no real highs or lows, it was just straight-ahead work. I don't think we ever failed. We didn't zoom to stardom, but we always worked."
People are basically irreverent. They want to see sacred cows kicked over. You can't have Harry Belafonte on your show and not have him sing a song, but we did; we had him climbing out of a bathtub, just because it looked irreverent and silly. If a show hires Robert Goulet, pays him $7,500 or $10,000, they're going to want three songs out of him; we hire Robert Goulet, pay him $210 and drop him through a trap door.