Buzzi also performed as Gladys on Sesame Street and The Dean Martin Show, most notably in the Celebrity Roasts.

New human and Muppet characters were introduced, including Zoe ( performed by Fran Brill ), baby Natasha and her parents Ingrid and Humphrey, and Ruthie ( played by comedian Ruth Buzzi ).

In 1968 the band performed " You've Got The Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo " on the TV series Laugh-In, with appearances by the park-bench oldtimers duo played by Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson.

Between New York musical variety shows, Buzzi made numerous television commercials, some of which won national awards including the coveted Clio Award.

Buzzi's first national exposure came when she teamed up with Dom DeLuise in a comical magic act in which he played an incompetent magician and Buzzi was his " sidekick " named " Shakuntala " who never spoke but always sported a wide grin.

Ruth Buzzi saw her first taste of national fame as " Shakuntala " the silent, bumbling magician's assistant to her comedy partner Dom DeLuise who played " Dominic the Great ".

Buzzi and her husband won first place in their category with their 1961 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II drophead coupe at the Concours d ' Elegance national championship in Amelia Island, Florida.

But it has produced a great number of poets such as Pietro Pen ( 1794 – 1869 ), who translated the Swiss national anthem into Italian, JB Buzzi ( 1825 – 1898 ), Giovanni Airoldi ( died before 1900 ) and Carlo Cioccari ( 1829 – 1891 ) the two former were lyric poets, and the third a dramatist.

Ruth Buzzi became a regular on the Sesame Street children's television series.

However, Sid and Marty Krofft persuaded Nabors to star in the Saturday-morning children's television show The Lost Saucer, about two bumbling androids, Fi ( Ruth Buzzi ) and Fum ( Nabors ), who travel through time with two children.

Ruth Ann Buzzi ( born July 24, 1936 ) is an American comedienne and actress of theatre, film, and television.

Before leaving New York for a career in Los Angeles as a television star, Buzzi played in a Bob Fosse classic Broadway show, Sweet Charity, with Gwen Verdon in the original cast ; she had to leave the show in which she had several small roles, one of them " the Singing Fairy ," to become a regular performer on The Steve Allen Show, on CBS.

Ruth Buzzi was the only featured player to appear in every episode of Laugh-In including the initial pilot for the show and the Laugh-In television special.

Buzzi was a guest star on many television series including Donny & Marie, The Flip Wilson Show, The Dean Martin Music and Comedy Hour, the Dean Martin Roasts, The Carol Burnett Show, Tony Orlando and Dawn, and variety series hosted by Leslie Uggams and Glen Campbell.

Buzzi was inducted in 2002 into the Television Hall of Fame ( presented by the National Broadcasters Association, which bestowed the honor to Buzzi as well as the producers, director and cast of the top rated television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ).

Buzzi received a Clio Award for Best Spokesperson in a television commercial for her series of Clorox-2 commercials, and was among the first of only a few Caucasian women to ever win an NAACP Image Award.

Ruth Buzzi guest starred as a music and comedy performer on dozens of prime time television specials with colleagues including Jonathan Winters, Carol Burnett, Jim Nabors, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lee Lewis, Wayne Newton, Anne Murray, Rolf Harris, Dom DeLuise, Tony Orlando and was in a show created for Debbie Reynolds called Aloha Paradise, to name just a few.

Buzzi, as Gladys, was featured in most of the Dean Martin Roasts from the MGM Hotel in Las Vegas.

Except for holdovers Dawson, Owens, Buzzi, and only occasional appearances from Tomlin, a new cast was brought in.

In 1996 the Leningrad Cowboys granted the Swiss-Italian singer-songwriter David Buzzi permission to write lyrics for the instrumental " Ten Lost Gringos " from the Go America soundtrack.

In the fourth episode of the series, Kermit the Frog is asked by guest Ruth Buzzi if he felt a gag or routine would be funny enough for the show, to which he turns to the camera and replies, " That's up to the laugh track.

Ruth Buzzi recreated her own voice for the Gladys Ormphby character in its cartoon series called Baggy Pants and the Nitwits with Artie Johnson bringing his character to life on the show, as well.

Buzzi has had featured roles in more than 20 motion pictures including Chu Chu and the Philly Flash, Freaky Friday, The North Avenue Irregulars, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, The Villain, and a number of westerns for the European market known as the Lucky Luke series in which she plays the mother of the Dalton Gang and other roles.

Buzzi received 5 Emmy Award nominations and won the coveted Golden Globe Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1973 for her work on Laugh-In.

Five times, Buzzi was nominated by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Awards in several categories from comedy and variety to Best Performer in a Children's Television Program ; she was recognized not only for making people laugh, but for her versatility as an actress ; she is remembered for a guest starring dramatic role on Medical Center with Greg Evigan in which she played the wife of a fatally ill man played by Don Rickles.

Buzzi was a presenter at the 2009 Emmy Awards along with several members of her debut series, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, presenting the Emmy trophy to Jon Stewart for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Buzzi has never offered her oil paintings for sale to the public, but has donated original oil paintings to charity, where they have sold for more than $ 6, 000.

Buzzi is active in fundraising for the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch in Medina, Texas and other animal causes.

The Hepburn car was donated to the museum by Kent and Ruth Buzzi Perkins in 2001 and remains there for special exhibition.

* Ruth Buzzi as Nandy: Nandy is noted for her urban legends.

Buzzi starred with Jim Nabors in The Lost Saucer produced by Sid and Marty Krofft which aired from September 11, 1975 – September 2, 1976 ( 16 episodes ).

The first twenty large paintings, all tempera on canvas, were painted by Il Cerano ( 4 paintings ), Giovanni Mauro della Rovere ( Il Fiammenghino ) ( 3 ), Il Duchino ( 7 ), Procaccini ( 1 ), Carlo Buzzi ( 2 ), Domenico Pellegrini ( 1 ), and Morazzone.

Buzzi also played the role of the eccentric Nurse Kravitz on NBC's daytime soap Passions.

This short-lived series featured the debuts of Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfuss and John Byner, and featured Ruth Buzzi, who would become famous soon after as a regular on Laugh-In.

Ruth Buzzi provided her singing voice.

Fabio Buzzi took a giant step forward with the introduction of glass-reinforced polymer hulls, turbo-charged engines, and integral surface drives and the 90's subsequently saw the emergence of the Michael Peter's design and Tencara and Victory hulls dominate, with Sterling, Lamborghini, Seatek and more recently, Mercury sharing the power battle.

The Round Britain Powerboat has been run on 3 previous occasions-1969, 1984 and 2008, the previous winners were Timo Mäkinen, Fabio Buzzi and Vassilis Pateras.

2009 saw a return to traditional Offshore Racing and the trophy was won by Drew Langdon in Silverline Buzzi Bullet.

* August 10 – Aldo Buzzi, Italian architect, director and screenwriter ( d. 2009 )

Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven sons of Count Ludovico Pecci and his wife Anna Prosperi Buzzi.

Florence Henderson, Gwen Verdon, Kathy Johnson, Barry Williams, Billy Blanks, David Hasselhoff, John Franklin, Ryan Bollman, Brian Robbins and Ruth Buzzi were among the stars who appeared during the run of the show.

It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and featured, at various times, Chelsea Brown, Johnny Brown, Ruth Buzzi, Judy Carne, Richard Dawson, Henry Gibson, Arte Johnson, Goldie Hawn, Larry Hovis, Jeremy Lloyd, Dave Madden, Pigmeat Markham, Gary Owens, Pamela Rodgers, Barbara Sharma, Alan Sues, Lily Tomlin and Jo Anne Worley.

Ruth Buzzi, Judy Carne, Henry Gibson, Larry Hovis, Arte Johnson and Jo Anne Worley were originally in the pilot special from 1967.

With Ruth Buzzi ..." This maneuver gave Johnson star billing, but made it sound like he was still part of the ensemble cast.

Of over three dozen entertainers to grace the cast, only Rowan, Martin, Owens and Buzzi were there from beginning to end.

However, Owens was not in the 1967 pilot and Buzzi missed two first-season episodes.

The dancers were usually Goldie Hawn, Judy Carne and Chelsea Brown ; Ruth Buzzi and Jo Anne Worley popped up rarely, as did frequent guest Pamela Austin.

** Tyrone F. Horneigh ( pronounced " hor-NIGH ," presumably to satisfy the censors ) – A dirty old man coming on to Gladys Ormphby ( Ruth Buzzi ) seated on a park bench, who almost invariably clobbered him with her purse.

** Busy Buzzi – A Hedda Hopper / Louella Parsons-style gossip columnist.

It has changed owners many times through mergers, and as of 2008 is owned by Buzzi Unicem.

* A. M. Prokhorov ( Editor in Chief ), J. M. Buzzi, P. Sprangle, K. Wille.