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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
