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George Carlin (Photo: NBCU Photo Bank/Paul Drinkwater) George Carlin Hosted the Second-Ever ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’
The stand-up legend bid farewell to 1973 aboard the ‘Queen Mary’
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Dinner for One (Photo by Siegfried Pilz/United Archives via Getty Images) How a British Comedy Sketch From the 1960s Became a New Year’s Eve Tradition in Germany
‘Dinner for One’ has been shown on German television every year since 1972
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Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in 'When Harry Met Sally…' (Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images) You Can Time These 3 Comedy Movies So That You Ring in the New Year With the Characters
If you hit play at a certain time, the on-screen celebrations should begin exactly at midnight
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Dave Chappelle in 2022 (Photo: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images) Dave Chappelle and Dane Cook Broke Each Other’s Stand-Up Records (And No One’s Topped Them Since)
The two comics spent a ridiculous amount of time one-upping one another
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The cast of 'The Honeymooners' (Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) ‘Mad Libs’ Exists Because of ‘The Honeymooners’
If it weren’t for Jackie Gleason’s iconic sitcom, the classic word game might never have been invented
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Chevy Chase and Bill Murray, with Martin Short in the middle (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images) How Chevy Chase Broke the Ice With Bill Murray After Their Feud
The ‘Caddyshack’ stars buried the hatchet in an appropriately hilarious way
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Rob Reiner (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) Rob Reiner Once Quit a TV Show Because of Desi Arnaz
Before he was butting heads with Archie Bunker, Reiner had a run-in with the star of ‘I Love Lucy’
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John Heard aka Peter McCallister (Photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images) Was Kevin’s Dad From ‘Home Alone’ in the Mob?
One fan theory got so much attention that the film’s director even responded to it
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Dick Van Dyke (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Dick Van Dyke Wanted to Remake ‘The Odd Couple’ With One of the Stars of ‘Elf’
We missed out on the updated version due to his proposed co-star’s death
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Good ol cousin Eddie aka Randy Quaid (Photo by Steve Schapiro/Corbis via Getty Images) 4 Christmas Comedies You Didn’t Know Had Sequels
There’s a such thing as spreading too much Christmas cheer
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Betty Boop (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images) The Actress Who Voiced Betty Boop Was Also in ‘Christmas Vacation’
Prolific actress Mae Questel made her final appearance in the holiday classic
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Karen and Frosty the Snowman (Photo by CBS/Courtesy of Getty Images) The Star of ‘Frosty the Snowman’ Had ‘At Least Three’ Secret Families, According to His Son
Jackie Vernon apparently had some skeletons in his closet