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
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In his life that appearing on "Laugh-In" is what got him elected. And I believe that. And I've had to live with that." In an episode of the ill-fated 1977 revival, a Nixon impersonator says, "I invited the American people to sock-it-to-me... you can stop now". On multiple occasions, producer George Schlatter attempted to get William F. Buckley Jr. to appear on the show, only to be refused each time until he suddenly agreed to an appearance. In the episode that aired December 28, 1970, Buckley appeared in an unusual sit-down segment (portions of which were scattered throughout the episode) flanked