Arte Johnson 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 "Verrrry interesting...", and an old man who habitually propositioned Ruth Buzzi's spinster character. Johnson was born January 20, 1929, in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and is the son of Abraham Lincoln and Edythe Mackenzie (Golden) Johnson. His father was an attorney. Johnson attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he worked at the campus radio station and the UI Theater Guild
S. Carlisle Martin having the Weatherbird comment on current events, and set the standards of six words maximum for the "birdline" (the Weatherbird's comments). Assisted by reporter Carlos Hurd (who helped write the birdlines), Martin drew the Weatherbird until his death. He was succeeded by Amadee Wohlschlaeger (then just out of his teens), who went on to draw the strip for a half century. Martin married Lynn Shackleford on October 30, 1897. They had a son, Samuel Jr., and a daughter. Martin died on August 17, 1932, in St. Louis. S. Carlisle Martin Samuel Carlisle Martin (1867–1932) was an American newspaper cartoonist and