Rip Taylor

Rip Taylor (born January 13, 1937 in Washington D.C.), is an American actor and comedian. Known for his high voice, zany hair, bushy mustache over a perpetual toothy grin and his heavyset physique, his schtick is to toss handfuls of confetti from a paper bag onto his audience.

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Though Taylor has done dramatic roles, he is best identified--even typecast--as a joker, a quick wit and a prop comic. Of his trademark gimmick--conceived quite by accident in 1969 at Merv Griffin's show after tearing up a script on stage and throwing the pieces in a fit of pique--he jested in an interview that "three nuns are tearing it for me 24 hours a day".

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Taylor has been doing movies, TV, and voiceover for some forty years, though is probably best remembered for his appearance as a celebrity guest at the funeral/roast of a very dull man in the cult comedy classic Amazon Women on the Moon. In 2005, Taylor appeared as himself on an episode of ABC TV's The George Lopez Show.

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Taylor was a frequent celebrity guest panelist on game shows such as Hollywood Squares and The Gong Show, and even hosted a short-lived send-up of beauty pageants called The $1.98 Beauty Show, created by Gong Show producer/host Chuck Barris, in 1978. Taylor appears as a celebrity on the slot-machine version of Match Game.

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He has never publicly come out of the closet but suffice to say that on an episode of The Nanny, Fran Fein (played by Fran Drescher) congratulates Mr. Sheffield (played by Charles Shaughnessy) on his casting of a production of Love Letters--starring Taylor and Charles Nelson Reilly!

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January 13: January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. It is still celebrated as New Year's Eve by those on the Julian calendar. There are 352 days remaining (353 in a leap year)....

1937: 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar)....

Washington D.C.: Washington, D.C....

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