Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. Gailard Sartain, the Southern character actor and comedian who appeared ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. If you are of a certain age or simply fancy TV variety-themed series, ...

Gailard Sartain, the character actor and comedian whose breakthrough role on Hee Haw launched a career of playing Southern good-ol’-boy that included his memorable performance as The Big Bopper in ...

Actor, comedian, painter, and illustrator Gailard Sartain passed away on Tuesday in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, TMZ confirmed on Friday. The cause of death has not been released. Sartain was ...

Lulu Roman, who found fame as a comedic actress and singer on the TV series "Hee Haw" over a run that lasted from 1969 till 1993, died Wednesday at age 78. No cause of death was immediately given, ...

Lulu Roman, an actress-turned-gospel singer who appeared in the popular television series “Hee Haw,” died on April 23. She was 78. Roman died in Bellingham, Washington, her son, Damon Roman, told The ...

What happens when you take Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, steep it in war-weary America’s longing for simpler times, and throw in top country music stars for good measure? You get hee-hee hee-hee-hee haw ...