The Dean Martin Roast for Frank Sinatra, 1978. | Frank Sinatra

The late, great Ruth Buzzi is truly hilarious as Gladys Ormphby, the purse wielding, hairnet-wearing, man-hungry spinster on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast of Angie Dickinson (1977). At the time, Angie was starring on TV's "Police Woman" with Earl Holliman, also seen in this video. The premise of this epic joke is that Gladys is a real policewoman who dresses down Angie for pretending to be a public servant, not appreciating how difficult the job really is. 😂 This is a delightful, glorious bla

In 1967, Ruth Buzzi appeared in all eight episodes of The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, a variety series starring Steve Allen. Her character parts in the Allen sketches led her to be cast for NBC's new show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. She was the only featured player to appear in every episode of Laugh-In including the pilot. Among her recurring characters on Laugh-In were Flicker Farkle, youngest of the Farkle family; Busy-Buzzi, a Hedda Hopper–type Hollywood gossip columnist; Doris Swizzler, a coc