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John Mulrooney (Credit: John Mulrooney/Facebook) Stand-Up Comedian John Mulrooney Dies at 67
He hosted a number of late-night TV shows over the course of his career.
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This tunnel is named after a comedy legend (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) 7 Comedy Stars Who Had Places Named After Them
Few have had the honor of being turned into a location
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David Letterman (Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images) That Time David Letterman Accidentally Pranked a Cartel Leader
The late-night host unknowingly messed with a wanted drug lord during a hidden camera segment
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The Griffins from 'Family Guy' (Photo by FOX Image Collection via Getty Images) How All the Big Animated Comedies Covered the Y2K Scare
Everyone felt the need to address the elephant in the room in 1999
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The inside of a 'Flintstones'-themed house (Photo by John Green/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images) The ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ Star Who Built a ‘Flintstones’-Themed House
The famous TV host brought Bedrock to life in Los Angeles
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Stan and Kyle from 'South Park' (Photo By Getty Images) ‘South Park’ Used to Count Down to New Year’s for the First Few Seasons
The short-lived tradition only lasted until 2000
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George Carlin (Photo: NBCU Photo Bank/Paul Drinkwater) George Carlin Hosted the Second-Ever ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’
The stand-up legend bid farewell to 1973 aboard the ‘Queen Mary’
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'Dinner for One' (Photo by Siegfried Pilz/United Archives via Getty Images) How a British Comedy Sketch From the 1960s Became a New Year’s Eve Tradition in Germany
‘Dinner for One’ has been shown on German television every year since 1972
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Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in 'When Harry Met Sally…' (Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images) You Can Time These 3 Comedy Movies So That You Ring in the New Year With the Characters
If you hit play at a certain time, the on-screen celebrations should begin exactly at midnight
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Dave Chappelle in 2022 (Photo: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images) Dave Chappelle and Dane Cook Broke Each Other’s Stand-Up Records (And No One’s Topped Them Since)
The two comics spent a ridiculous amount of time one-upping one another
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The cast of 'The Honeymooners' (Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) ‘Mad Libs’ Exists Because of ‘The Honeymooners’
If it weren’t for Jackie Gleason’s iconic sitcom, the classic word game might never have been invented
