Chris Bearde, who won an Emmy as part of the Laugh-In writing team, created The Gong Show and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and co-wrote what became known as the Elvis ’68 Comeback Special, died Sunday. He was 80. Bearde grew up in Sydney, launching his career hosting a 1950s kids TV show in Australia. In the early 1960s, he landed a writing gig on the CTV comedy series Network for CTV. He went on to create CBC’s Front and Centre and Nightcap, the latter being Canada’s…...
- 4/24/2017
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