His work brought smiles to the world when smiles were needed most.

Below is a great scene from Dracula: Dead and Loving It(thanks to @bekka_black) and a masterful montage of his work over the years.

He said of his work that “I have no interest in doing anything important.” He perhaps stretched the joke by publishing an autobiography in 1993, The Naked Truth, which included comic fabrications such as two Academy Awards and an affair with Elizabeth Taylor. He actually did attract two Emmy nominations, however, but failed to win on either occasion.

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