Happy Birthday, Paul Lynde!
Paul Lynde was a bawdy old queen long before it was cool to be a bawdy old queen. He was on Bewitched and in a bunch of movies, but he's best remembered as the center square on the old Hollywood Squares, where he regularly displayed his knack for hilarious double entendres and saucy wise-cracks. Lynde died 26 years ago, but would've been 82 today. Here's a recent SNL clip featuring Fred Armisen as a character clearly modeled after him:
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