Arte Johnson He has performed more than 80 audiobook readings, including Gary Shteyngart's "Absurdistan" (2006) and Carl Hiaasen's "Bad Monkey." In 2005, he appeared in the "Justice League Unlimited" episode "The Ties That Bind" as the voice of Virman Vundabar. Johnson lives in Southern California with his wife, Gisela. He is a non-Hodgkins lymphoma survivor, having been diagnosed and successfully treated in 1997. Arte Johnson Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson (born January 20, 1929) is an American comic actor who was a regular on television's "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In". His best-remembered characters on the sketch show were a German soldier with the catchphrase
Letters to Laugh-In Letters to Laugh-In Letters to Laugh-In is a daytime game show and spin-off of NBC's nighttime comedy series, "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", that aired on the network from September 29 to December 26, 1969. The show was hosted by Gary Owens, the announcer for "Laugh-In". Home viewers mailed their jokes to the program, during which they were read by a panel of four celebrities – two of them "Laugh-In" regulars. Each joke was rated on a scale of minus-100 to plus-100 by a randomly selected audience panel. "Morgul, the friendly Drelb" (who Owens always referred to on "Laugh-In", but who